Some instances use allowlist meaning other servers are defederated unless added to the list. Hexbear is the only major instance that uses this model, to my knowledge.

Sorry for speaking out against transphobes in a not-wholesome way. It will happen again.

You can create an account on a more populated instance, become mutuals with your sibling’s wafrn account and then boost stuff for them.

Good but then do not bother people with your “bigot is a meaningless word nowadays” when you say such hateful shit. That’s just pathetic.

Said dude who wrote this shit:

And it is at least partly because of a radical overreach in policy demands over the last decade by the “T” in LGBT. It has generated an inevitable backlash that is now hurting the other letters in the soup, of which I am one.

Maybe it’s you who are the problem, at least sometimes?

Counterargument: I don’t want to engage in good faith with a bigot.

You’re only limited to 5 blocked domains for some reason.

Spreading awareness is against our TOS.

"Here’s the list of problems with genAI: unethical training, data centers are bad for environment, horrible corpos behind the thing, potential copyright issues.

What is my position on LLMs, you might ask. I love it and I pay for subscription of one of the shit corpos!!!"

One of the most braindead takes on LLMs I’ve heard in awhile.

But I am not getting much visibility.

I’m afraid that’s just how it is. Tags aren’t very popular among Mastodon users in my experience so they don’t help much either (but I still recommend adding some tags). Literally the only thing that helped my posts getting seen is a boost from some popular Masto person.

You forgot “perchance”! The worst crime of Lemmy…

You don’t. Instead, you recommend a specific community/instance that they’d like to participate in. And if Fediverse doesn’t have such a community your friend wouldn’t stick with it anyway.

For most people the advantages of federation doesn’t matter at all. What matters is their ability to connect with their fellow human beings on topics they care about.

Which version did this happen in?

2.3.0, according to their new website, though I found out about it at a much later version.

The latest pre-libadwaita version of Gajim is 2.2.0, I don’t think there were any problems with that version.

It also locks up whenever we try dragging a picture into the chat window to send.

I remember that Gajim installed from Flatpak wouldn’t allow drag’n’drop functionality at all.

Whaat, that can happen??

Before the June update Gajim wasn’t related to GNOME at all and worked perfectly fine on my Xfce desktop. The update fully switched to GTK4 + libadwaita, and they also redesigned their website to look exactly like GNOME’s.

I suppose they changed their design direction…

Yeah that’s exactly it.

Gtk3 is considered legacy now

Cinnamon and Xfce still exist though. It’s not like gtk3 is suddenly out of use.

I’ll look into Movim, thanks!

I don’t, they are free to change their software any way they want to, and I’m free to not like the changes they’ve made.

There aren’t really any good clients for XMPP unfortunately. I’m just moving away to Matrix (ironically the one I avoided because it didn’t have good clients when I looked into IMs).