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That looks neat! I'll look into it. How does it work, do you run Docker in it? I really have no clue what I'm doing.

I've got the domains already - I have a bad habit of buying domains that I never use. It's really the server part that gets me nervous. I'm not good at that stuff yet, and it's not really intuitive for me to learn. I know for Mastodon, they have some cloud based servers that they recommend, but Lemmy's instructions are kinda lacking detail for a newbie like me - and at this time, there's not really up-to-date YT videos showing you how to do it.

I know that being part of a server seems like a natural fit for someone like me who is totally lost with these things, but it's kinda frustrating that most larger instances have a ton of rules. I think the one I'm on has rules about lewd content, which is fine, but I feel like one of my comments got blocked from submission when I wrote about how Reddit's downfall will be similar to Tumblr's due to their likely eventual banning of that type of content. Maybe some of the words I used were triggering the auto filter or something? But either way, I didn't like that feeling of censorship.

At this point I'm considering it. I wonder how much it costs.

Yeah, I guess it would put the pressure on instances to individually ban someone from participating in certain communities, but we'd have no real way to fully ban a person who is posting illegal things. But that's kinda true if someone makes their own instance now and begins posting illegal stuff - I assume other instances have to ban that person anyway.

Thanks for sharing this! I also play Steam with Proton and the only games I play are Minecraft, Stardrew, and the Sims 4 (modded). I want to switch distros but I don't want to have to deal with the Nvidia thing again so if POP ships with drivers outta the box, I'll be happy.

I need to try some of those other games. I'm not big on any major AAA titles myself.

I mean it would still be decentralized in most ways that matter. Nobody would own the hosting of instances except the small groups or individuals that do, so if a surpressive party ever tried to control the narrative on a large instance with multiple communities, users could just focus on other instances that aren't like that. Likewise, it would greatly simplify the moderation needs of other instances (in some ways) - instances would focus on blocking harmful users, but they wouldn't have to worry about potentially replicating content from harmful instances. Sign up is also simplified, preventing the "where do I go" confusion.

It could also marry the different fediverse hangouts in different ways. Think about YouTube - they have a place for the main feed, they have a place for shorts, and those two places don't even really give the same vibe. A good fediverse app could have different views between Mastodon, Lemmy, Tumblr (they're either federated or plan to be), etc but one account that has a single access point for all of those. Sliding between the views gives you something like Twitter, Tumblr, Reddit, Instagram, etc. Instead of 12 handles, YouTubers give 1.

There are pitfalls - who owns the big account instance? What if the owners of it somehow abuse their power over the community, can we create another account instance and link it up, good as new? How hard is it to screen individual users from the perspective of an individual instance owner or group? Do we want to have our activity linked across multiple different places on the internet - after all, Mastodon is more real identity meaning, but Lemmy is more anonymous like Reddit. Who funds the mega instance? Is there incentive to pay for smaller instances if they don't hold your account as well? Will the big instances just... Own all the data eventually anyway (this could happen even without one login)?

I think the only way it could work is from some strange non profit Wikipedia type setup where it's completely FOSS and nobody can ever have ownership to monetize or exploit the user base. Thing is, I'm not a tech person at all. I see shit like Linux as an absolute miracle and completely fail to understand how that even works (people collaborating on a project that's totally free in most cases). I'm just kinda shooting the breeze and trying to think of how things could work possibly, but these ideas are probably bad for reasons I didn't even realize.

Nah, I'm referring to one account (think like FB login or Google log in, but not awful) that accesses all the Lemmy instances without being on any particular instance. This means that users are independent of instances but still access the fediverse. Then instances block individual users if needed, users block instances if needed, but instances are still decentralized and owned by smaller groups than giant companies like Reddit, preventing a company from monopolizing things. It also removes the whole account migration thing. Could be as simple as one mega instance that hosts only accounts and all other instances host content.

It also removes the confusion. Right now I'm kat on lemmy.ca, but there could be kat@ any other instance and you'd never really know unless you memorized my instance handle.

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I'm not very worried about the monitor thing, right now I have some basic 1080p monitors and I may just eventually get one big great monitor. Hopefully just one monitor will not give me issues? How was gaming on Pop? I had a bit of a time getting Nvidia to work - kept getting some error. I needed to get the reinforcements (aka software dev boyfriend) to help. I heard Pop comes preinstalled with a lot of drivers.

How do you like PopOS? I've been on Ubuntu for about a year and I like it but... It's Ubuntu. I don't necessarily love how the file system is set up, and snaps... Just... Snaps. I've been considering either Mint or Pop.

This was years ago (2010 I think) before the good Linux driver for Wacom was made. Or maybe during the infancy days of it. I had a Bamboo Fun. It's funny to me that I've been fiddling with Linux since 2010 - growing up during the recession made me pretty receptive to making free solutions work, even if it meant troubleshooting things I didn't understand and crying at 2am because it's not working. I went back to Linux last year and it's been insane how easy it all is.

Remember when SNL said failure would result in having to live in a van down by the river, and now #vanlife costs $$$, and owning riverfront property is a pipe dream?

I can't even afford yesterday's broke!