Restrict the API to each server? (just joking!) Perhaps we can try being more polite and kind towards each other. I feel that this is the case so far. I fear the moment that "mainstream" users find out about Lemmy!
I have the same feeling too. The communities here keep growing. The first weeks here felt a bit... lonely. But now it feels like the fediverse is starting to thive!
That's a good point. Perhaps FSF has got the message and GPL v.4 will give FOSS developers the option to ensure that all derivatives of our code will remain publicly available and not placed behind paywalls.
This explains a lot. Execs are not engineers, they don't understand software, nor how the community contributes value to the project. They just need to find an income stream and are willing to break everything they don't understand to achieve it. Even the company they work for.
I am sure that most people here adopt the principles of FOSS. I wouldn't miss at all the various "mainstream" subs with poor content but some of the best subs could be encouraged to migrate to the fediverse. I have really high hopes for this project.
Thank you very much! I am on the same boat
I love that it exists. I don't visit Reddit anymore, although I miss some communities, especially AskHistorians and AskScience. Otherwise, I can tolerate the teething problems of Lemmy (and kbin) in order to support a free internet. The latter is far more important, to me, than "better functionality"
I moved to Debian and MX Linux because Ubuntu was deviating from the principles that are important to me. Can I ask why you prefer Firefox-ESR? It's the first thing I remove when I install Debian! And why do you stick with Ubuntu if you don't like snaps? Do you have any compatibility issues with other deb-based distros?
Sorry, I am not a big fan of long podcasts (or even videos). If you can share the final conclusion, it would be great. I am really interested in this story and don't think that it has been covered bilateraly in the various forums.
Everything that you say is correct and accurate. Definitely there will be big companies that will create designs and keep them behind their IP walls. However, there will also be some small companies, which otherwise would have been unable to develop their own designs, which will be able to create something compliant with the instruction set and have Linux kernel up and running, with most of the GNU/Linux ecosystem available to them. This is a really big thing. Also, if the small manufacturers follow a common fully open standard (which is in their interest) the benefit will be huge for everyone, users included.
I am definitely less active on Reddit, to the point of absence from posting/commenting. However, I am not very active here either. I have encouraged others on Mastodon to join Lemmy but I acknowledge that it's not as mature as a Reddit replacement, as Mastodon is as a twitter replacement. Definitely both systems are getting better and hopefully, we can move our social networking to the fediverse 100% by 2024.
You are AWESOME mate! A million thanks for this instance and your work.