You’re absolutely right, now that I think about it. My bad. But yeah, it makes more sense to upstream and make the features toggle-able.

Not all instance owners may want all those features implemented. Not the same but kind of like how Beehaw doesn’t allow downvotes while other lemmy instances do.

Dude was forced to buy Twitter because he couldn’t stop his big mouth. Seems he hasn’t learned. Lmao.

I’ve been on nix for only 2-3 days so take what I say with a grain of salt. I think it’s pretty useful. Back in Arch/EOS, I always find ways to mess up the system (I switched to Nix because of a failed system update on EOS). On Nix, it’s so easy to roll back and you don’t even need to use the terminal.

sudo nixos-rebuild switch --upgrade

There are (afaik) 3 channels you can choose: stable, unstable, and small(?). I’m staying on stable for now. Package manager is slower than pacman, imo, and it’s not as straightforward as Arch. Some programs (like kde connect) need to have service enabled in config.

8-10 unskippable ads before a video? Holy shit. That’s ludicrous.

Great post. Imho, a fundamental thing we should not ignore is letting people know what they’re in for. I’ve seen some users glossing over the intricacies of the fediverse to get others to sign up. I understand their side, but imo that’s not a good way to have people come over. People should be educated enough of the pros and cons as much as possible, although that might mean some would get intimidated and refuse to join.

Clear policies will be very helpful in addressing that, i think.

Edit: just have to add that i haven’t opened the links yet and only read the whole post. Not at home so I’ll check them out later.

Instances with conflicting focuses or policies can defederate from one another.

Or a death match. Idk. Just thinking out loud here.

I can’t remember how it was circa 2010, but it feels like it’s harder to “kill” social media sites now.

Thank you. This is what I was thinking of. Lemmy/kbin is great but idk how mature they are in terms of accessibility. I wish them luck.

How is lemmy in terms of accessibility? I hope it goes well for them.

Tails, it’s goatse.

Fuck. I didn’t have to be reminded of this. Lmao.

With stuff like push shift and way back machine

So much this. I don’t get why people don’t remember this first thing when it comes to data storage.

This is being naive. Don’t trust a server you don’t run yourself.