EnglishMobster

I'm in the same boat. It was getting to the point where my whole computer would randomly lock up whenever I tried to share my screen on Zoom or when I opened the Windows settings menu. Opening the Start menu could take a solid 30 seconds sometimes.

Then I got an OS notification that was actually an Xbox Game Pass ad and decided I had enough. I installed Linux, and after a few days of distro-hopping I settled on KDE Neon. I WFH from it every day, using Zoom for meetings and Parsec to connect to a Windows computer in the office for work. No issues, except that Proton isn't quite as performant as native Windows.

Yep. You can even argue that causing a recession is why interest rates are spiking. It wasn't happening naturally, and the plebians were getting too uppity.

To maintain class divisions the upper class decided that the best way to avoid this was to turn off the money spigot, because too much was starting to trickle down.

Turning off the money spigot meant that businesses couldn't raise wages had to start cuts. Causing layoffs meant it would shift from an employee's market to an employer's market. They say it's to "cool inflation"... by making people lose their livelihoods. Then people stop buying and inflation comes down, because the commoners have to keep scrounging instead of improving their lives.

It will get worse; we're just at the beginning. Tech has been a bellwether, but it's started spreading across the entire economy. Places that aren't tech-related are facing layoffs, and as workers get shafted we see strikes coming back in a big way.

But the 1% will hold firm. The Fed will keep the money spigots closed until there's a massive recession and everyone loses their homes. Then the rich will come in, buy everything up for a bargain, and rent it back to you at twice the price.

And of course, politicians won't help you either - if anything, most of them stand to benefit from the change. After all, Biden himself told his rich donors "nothing will fundamentally change" - things were changing, and so he's not going to stand for that. Instead, he'll silently let things revert to the status quo, the way the rich like it. Everyone else kills each other in culture wars or fights over the scraps.

I have a solid repro:

1. Sit on a page for a long period of time without other activity (for example, minimized web browser for 30-45 minutes)

2. Interact with a post by hitting the upvote or downvote button

I'd imagine some session token is expiring and when you send the request for the upvote/downvote it rejects the call due to an expired token. Then the page refreshes and logs you out. Pressing the home page again will auto-log you back in.

From your Mastodon account, just search @technology@lemmy.ml. You'll see the whole community as if it was one user. You can also interact with comments, reply, or upvote.

Note that Lemmy kind of does a bad job of integrating with Mastodon. Each community is an account that "boosts" (retweets) every post and comment in it, making it very noisy. I talked to the devs about it a while back and better integration is just not something they're interested in.

Kbin (which is a Reddit clone like Lemmy) works much much better. If you search @Disneyland@kbin.social from Mastodon, you'll see the Disneyland magazine appears to be an actual user and the threads/comment sections work like you'd expect them to on Mastodon. Any posts appear to come from that Mastodon account (instead of being "boosts").

Kbin allows you to follow Mastodon users as well, which Lemmy doesn't support and has no plans to support. You can flip between "Reddit mode" ("Threads") and "Twitter mode" ("Microblog") at the top of the page on Kbin, effectively merging 2 services into 1.

Kbin's roadmap also has it integrating more ActivityPub stuff natively over time. It's the reason why I use it over Lemmy.

Ah! Didn't even think to check GitHub. Good call; I added a comment with my thoughts.

Yeah, I can't find the source I originally read it from (I think it was on the KDE subreddit from a KDE dev there), but they gave a talk about it recently. I've only skimmed the talk but they do speak pretty heavily about KDE collaborating with Valve: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0gEIeFgDX0

Steam Deck honestly convinced me to move my desktop over to Linux.

I'm still dual-booting, but I only go into Windows if something struggles too much over Proton (looking at you Satisfactory). I've been daily driving KDE Neon for about 2 months without issues.

Plasma is a great desktop environment, too. Usually the desktop environments were what chased me away - GNOME was slow sometimes and always felt... off, Cinnamon doesn't like multiple desktops despite claiming to, with the maintainers refusing to even acknowledge the problems, XFE is... XFE, and historically Plasma was always super crashy and bloated.

Valve's been funding the KDE guys to make Plasma better and it really shows. Plasma feels like a modern desktop that can compete with Windows directly - and honestly beats Windows with how bad Windows 11 has become. (Last time I was in Windows it took the Windows 11 Start Menu a full 20 seconds to open - but don't worry, it had time to serve me an ad for Xbox Game Pass.)

How about this?

https://www.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/cqgztr/fuck_the_white_supremacist_reddit_admins_want_me/

https://web.archive.org/web/20230626055233/https://old.reddit.com/r/communism/comments/cqgztr/fuck_the_white_supremacist_reddit_admins_want_me/

Hey all, longtime Marxist-leninist, recorder of left audiobooks, and megathread shitposter here.

Posting this in light of a recent one week Reddit ban I earned for shitting on US police, as I'm sure many of us have gotten in recent weeks.

So I've spent the past few months working on a self hostable, federated, Reddit alternative called Lemmy, and it's pretty much ready to go. Unlike here we'd have ultimate control over all content, and would never have to self censor.

Obviously as communists, we agitate where the people are, so we should never abandon Reddit entirely, but it's been clear to all of us from day one, that communities like this stand on unsteady ground, and could be banned or quarantined at any moment by the white supremacist Reddit admins. This would be both a backup and a potentially better alternative. Moderation abilities are there, as well as a slur filter.

Raddle isn't an option obviously since it's run by this arch anti tankie scum, ziq.

I wanted to ask ppl here if they'd like me to host an instance, and mod all the current mods here.

Note the line: Obviously as communists, we agitate where the people are. I'm pretty left-leaning myself (I draw the line at authoritarianism though), but they're very open about using their platform to push an agenda. The instance that post mentions at the end became Lemmygrad. Lemmy.ml and Lemmygrad are the same people - the ".ml" in "lemmy.ml" even stands for "Marxist-Leninist".

I joined Lemmy.ml in 2020 after they made a (different) pitch to /r/linux... and left shortly afterward when I saw who ran it. Thankfully we have other options now (hello from Kbin!).

I think it's more realistic than people think. The Digital Markets Act in the EU is likely why Threads is ActivityPub, and Reddit is (potentially) affected by it too: https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-2019-2024/europe-fit-digital-age/digital-markets-act-ensuring-fair-and-open-digital-markets_en

Examples of the “do’s” - Gatekeeper platforms will have to:

• allow third parties to inter-operate with the gatekeeper’s own services in certain specific situations
• allow their business users to access the data that they generate in their use of the gatekeeper’s platform
• provide companies advertising on their platform with the tools and information necessary for advertisers and publishers to carry out their own independent verification of their advertisements hosted by the gatekeeper
• allow their business users to promote their offer and conclude contracts with their customers outside the gatekeeper’s platform

Let me quickly quote selected sections of the act itself:

The lack of interoperability allows gatekeepers that provide number-independent interpersonal communications services to benefit from strong network effects, which contributes to the weakening of contestability. Furthermore, regardless of whether end users ‘multi-home’, gatekeepers often provide number-independent interpersonal communications services as part of their platform ecosystem, and this further exacerbates entry barriers for alternative providers of such services and increases costs for end users to switch. Without prejudice to Directive (EU) 2018/1972 of the European Parliament and of the Council (14) and, in particular, the conditions and procedures laid down in Article 61 thereof, gatekeepers should therefore ensure, free of charge and upon request, interoperability with certain basic functionalities of their number-independent interpersonal communications services that they provide to their own end users, to third-party providers of such services.

Gatekeepers should ensure interoperability for third-party providers of number-independent interpersonal communications services that offer or intend to offer their number-independent interpersonal communications services to end users and business users in the Union. To facilitate the practical implementation of such interoperability, the gatekeeper concerned should be required to publish a reference offer laying down the technical details and general terms and conditions of interoperability with its number-independent interpersonal communications services. It should be possible for the Commission, if applicable, to consult the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications, in order to determine whether the technical details and the general terms and conditions published in the reference offer that the gatekeeper intends to implement or has implemented ensures compliance with this obligation.

Simply:

• You need to allow third-party apps free of charge

• You must publish your API publicly

Failure to comply causes:

• Initial fine of up to 10% of the company’s total worldwide annual turnover (or up to 20% in the event of repeated infringements)

• Daily fine of up to 5% of the average daily turnover

• Systemic infringements can cause the EU to break up the company entirely

The law has teeth. It could be I'm misunderstanding some nuances of the text, but this part seems pretty cut and dry from my perspective (I am not a legal expert):

gatekeepers should therefore ensure, free of charge and upon request, interoperability with certain basic functionalities of their number-independent interpersonal communications services that they provide to their own end users, to third-party providers of such services.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpersonal_communication

Interpersonal communication is an exchange of information between two or more people.

If deemed an internet gatekeeper, Reddit would need to allow interoperability free of charge with all of their "interpersonal communications services" (e.g. Reddit + chat + modmail + etc.) on any kind of third-party app that wants to support it. (Which makes recent decisions even more baffling.)

From a cynical perspective, Reddit switching to ActivityPub would also work to remove a barrier between Reddit and Lemmy. If Reddit thinks they can out-compete Lemmy from a UX perspective, reversing course and going more open by embracing ActivityPub would bring traffic back to where they can monetize it. If Reddit's UX is better, people will be more likely to engage on Reddit than Lemmy, and thus Reddit wouldn't lose people.

Of course, there are 2 major issues with this:

1. Reddit is terrible at UX and is actively getting worse

2. Spez is a fuckwad who wants to be Elon without realizing he and Elon are about to be royally fucked by the EU next year when this starts to really take effect

There is. Lemmy.ml is currently shadowbanning kbin for unknown reasons.

Lemmy.ml is blocking the bots kbin uses for federation. The devs have ignored anyone asking why. It's been weeks and only applies to Lemmy.ml, so it appears to be intentional. They're running slightly different code on their flagship site than what all the other instances use (which makes me wonder what else Lemmy.ml has changed compared to what's publicly available).

I love everyone always saying "Lemmy, what's XYZ?" or whatever not realizing there's a good chunk of people not on Lemmy.

It does get annoying when I see Lemmy-specific questions in my feed, though.

You don't need an ID to drive. You need a driver's license. And these licenses now suddenly don't count in DeSantisWorld.

Driving without an ID is not a crime. Driving without a license is. I can see the distinction being lost when you disagree with the person politically though.