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  • I’m on a german instance (feddit.de) and it’s federated with db0.

    I think it’s just lemmy.world bullshit.

    Has anyone read their post about their downtime?

    “We shouldn’t close registration or limit the amount of communities because we’re not even the biggest instance in the fediverse

    Like, what?! The argument was always that they are the biggest in Lemmy! It felt like they were trying to gaslight the users.

    Same as the other arguments, like new users being weirded out if they can’t register to lemmy.world or apps using them as default. So them being down all the time doesn’t matter? Or that lemmy.ml was the biggest instance and closed down registration and new users registered to other instances without a problem?

    I’m really weirded out how hard they try to be the “main” thing on Lemmy.




  • Interesting! I tried it a bit more:

    • I had “Undetermined”, “Deutsch” and “English” selected in my profile.
    • I was able to set the comment to “Undetermined”, but then still not able to set it to “Deutsch” (back to “English”, worked though)
    • Changing the word “homie” didn’t make a difference
    • Other comments set to “Undetermined” were able to switch to “Deutsch”
    • Other comments set to “English” (that were actually written in english) were able to switch to “Deutsch”

    Seems like it’s a problem with this comment in particular, but I can’t figure out why!

    Edit: I found another comment set to “Deutsch”, written in german, that can’t be changed no matter what.





  • My opinion:

    • Framework has a good track record and I would give them the benefit of the doubt until proven otherwise. (Concerning upgradeability)

    • laptops are getting more and more powerful and I like the idea of treating them similar to a desktop

    • as a ThinkPad user you probably know how popular especially old ThinkPads are, because of the ability to mod them

    • you might buy a new laptop every few years but the point above proves that there will be people interested in a second hand laptop, therefore reducing waste

    • there will always be a market for good quality and customer friendly products and the existence of framework is great for competition (for the end user)

    • they support the open source mentality, even tried to help to bring coreboot to their laptops. Even though that failed they’re keeping an eye on openSIL

    • overall I’m more of Linux instead of Windows, FOSS instead of corporate closed software, Lemmy instead of reddit and framework/system76/… instead of Lenovo/… kind of person. I see it partly as a fight for “freedom” if you so will.