Just clarifying because I feel we’re talking past each other:

You asked the folks in this discussion:

If the problem is fixable technical shortcomings, why not fix them instead of throwing up our hands and surrendering?

to which I said

Because not everyone is a developer.

to which you said

You don’t have to be a developer to use Lemmy

True. But that’s not what where we’re at in the discussion.

It sounds like mastodon still has technical issues . If Lemmy’s were solvable, mastodon’s are too. Otherwise, how did mastodon get built in the first place?

I’m quite sure they are solvable, but likely not by the folks complaining about the technical issues and choosing to use other services like bluesky. Because not everyone is a developer.

So in other words, I think your musing out loud about why don’t we solve the issues instead of giving up and using something else is being directed to the wrong people.

I think it’s just discoverability of content, and probably some UX. Mastodon isn’t really a great show of what ActivityPub can do.

I’m kind of surprised I don’t see Calckey or similar mentioned more. Personally I think it has solved a lot of Mastodon’s problems, but it seems niche even within the niche that is the fediverse.

https://calckey.world/

As a Linux user since 2007 I feel a little dirty uttering this phrase, but:

Because not everyone is a developer.

I think he’s going entirely the wrong way then.

If he owns all accounts he’s responsible for all accounts, right?

He should have just let it go.

Anyone with information on the case is urged to contact the Dallas Police Department.

The Source

Information from this article comes from the Dallas Police Department and an interview with the victim.

So there’s a black man shot in Texas by a mysterious assailant. He spoke with this man two times (at least) before the man put a mask on and shot him. He surely communicated these details to the police and to the person who interviewed him about this article.

Police are urging people to come forward with any information they might have that could help identify the shooter.

But I don’t even know the skin color of the man who shot him (though I have my guesses) because the FOX news article felt this was something that didn’t need to be included.

I don’t live in the area but if I did and I was trying to spot this man, it would be good to have some physical description wouldn’t it?

It’s almost if, and I know this sounds crazy, Fox News in Dallas, Texas doesn’t really give a shit about helping a black man find his attempted murderer, and/or they don’t want to print “black man is shot by white man for no reason while jogging.”

Am I making some assumptions? Yes I am. Because the lack of detail in this article requires me to do so.

“Accidentally”

I thought they meant “Not if you are still on Plasma 5” but maybe I misinterpreted it.

You replied to OP with that spammy mess in two different posts? And then act all snotty when called out?

(Apparently also not noticing the name of the account you replied to nor its profile pic? - someone who does NOT need conversion)

Here’s a tip from a longtime Linux user: You’re making us look bad. Find a different way.

they’ve duplicated the censorship thing that reddit likes to do with defederations

I disagree that defederation is censorship, but no worries, we don’t have to agree! However:

i switched to lemmy.ml since it doesn’t defederate with anybody

https://lemmy.ml/instances

If you switch to the “blocked” tab you’ll see that this is absolutely not true.

One of my primary criteria when I needed to make a new lemmy account (due to problems with my original instance) was to be sure I picked an instance that had pre-emptively defederated from Threads. (as .ml does, but there are a lot more in that list)

This is crazy… misguided, hypocritical, extreme, and unsafe. Etc.

Just like back alley abortions. Both easily avoided by respecting the bodily and reproductive autonomy of women.

No one in power will give a shit until it looks like it might hurt the bottom line of the billionaire class.

As long as they keep profiting from keeping us all buried in debt, nothing will change.

And he also is overwhelmed by needing to do things in life but not knowing where to start.

You’re a human and you need someone to validate you. I can’t do that from a keyboard, but I can offer an internet hug.

There’s a lot of good advice here. I have a son not too different in age than you. Your post made me want to give you a long hug. I’m sure you have many things about you that are assets and you haven’t had anyone in your life to help you find them.

As others have said, you sound smarter than you think you are, and your writing is good!

Small steps, and celebrate the small victories. Make one little thing better about yourself or your life every day. No matter how small. And be proud of yourself when you’ve done so.

Go take the good advice from others, but here’s a Dad Hug™.

I’m sure all the folks who were quick to ignore or dismiss their clarification of the packaging issue at the time will be just as quick to make comments like these as they were to skewer them then.

I appreciate the wisdom of your words, but the past few years have planted me squarely in the camp of “I’ll see it when I believe it” when it comes to any sort of consequence for powerful, wealthy Republicans.

Filthy rich, white. He gets the wag of the finger treatment and nothing worse. Just like Trump.

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Was a Gnome user until Gnome 3.

Since Plasma 5, I use KDE Plasma.

I’m just going to share my unvarnished opinions here, I clearly understand that Gnome users feel differently, and that’s okay.

• Gnome 3 performance was objectively worse on every bit of hardware I tried than Plasma. (Unfortunately I had functional gripes with Plasma 4 so couldn’t use it.)
• The years of faffing about I had trying to be happy with Gnome 3 and trying to use other alternatives until Plasma 5 was ready pretty much convinced me of this:
  • Gnome devs care more about achieving their vision of how a desktop should be used than they do about accommodating users who might feel differently. This is my perception, and it’s a deeply held opinion. No matter how strongly you feel I’m wrong, you aren’t going to change my mind. You can come at me if you want, but it’s going to bear no fruit.
  • KDE devs have a vision, but place nearly equal importance on ensuring their users can make different choices if they choose. If this isn’t true, they do a damn good job of pretending it is, and that’s good enough for me. 🙂
• I’m unhappy with the degree to which it appears the Gnome team has actively worked against the ability for users to easily customize, and with various feature removals that at this point are so far in my past that I probably don’t remember the specific things that pissed me off, but I remember their explanations for feature removals being salt in an open wound every last time I cared enough to investigate their stated reasons.

Plasma 6 does everything I want the way I want. I have loaded it (and Plasma 5) on very low end and very high end hardware and found it performant and functional on both, consistently.

You’ll note I don’t claim it to be the best. There are folks out there for whom the Gnome vision happens to be how they like to work, or who aren’t bothered by whatever hoops you have to jump through currently to customize a Gnome environment, and I’m sincerely happy for those people. For them, Gnome is the best.

There are lots of other DEs and of course tiling WMs exist, but it takes me no time at all to have a fresh plasma install working the way I want my computer to work and looking the way I want it to look, and thus I literally have zero complaints. So for the past few years I haven’t even looked at any alternatives. If there’s ever a time that I don’t find the desktop product itself, and the KDE development team’s approach to desktop development, to be absolutely perfect fits for me, I’ll look elsewhere - but honestly probably not at Gnome.