Not familiar with Hostgator. Can you provide more details?

Podman supports dockerfile, right?

I’ve been using podman for almost a year now. It works very well and supports most Docker features.

There are multiple use cases I have in mind, but one of them is running proprietary software I don’t outright trust. For example, zoom video conferencing for work, or steam for games.

I think for a small number of users, yes.

I hope this helps Linux Gaming somehow. If developers will have to check an extra box for MacOS support, as pressured to do so by Apple, then I hope they will at least also check the Linux box while they’re at it.

Many of us do not want porn, so it only makes sense that porn goes into specific instances that people who do not want porn can block out. It’s a freedom of choice thing.

I wish there was an Arab focused community. But it seems my fellow Arabs don’t care much for open source or the privacy issues of Reddit.

I also wish to see more specialized sciences as communities, where they discuss advanced topics.

Most things?

What WAS better?

Yearning for the past always has a reactionary vibe.

But I’ve seen a bunch of them used to serve the purposes of the other.

For example, Blockchain tech has been used for file sharing, sort of like bittorrent. IPFS is one implementation.

I’ve also seen several projects each using either bittorrent or Blockchain to build decentralized social media, sort of like the fediverse.

So I don’t think it’s fair to discard the question. They are technologies that can serve multiple purposes, even if their typical use cases differ.

I am less familiar with the fediverse, but I think bittorrent and Blockchain can both be thought of as technologies for storing and sharing information. It’s rather too simplistic, but it is a good starting point for the comparison.

On a related note, is there any page or document showing what’s actively being worked on and what features to look forward to? I am expecting the answer is no, since I know this is all voluntary work. But if it exists, would love to check it out and see what you’re up to :)

Jellyfin
Blender
Darktable
Bitwarden / Vaultwarden

I played on my ps1 / ps2 a lot for a while

Watched tv

Would call friends on phone and talk with them

I mean yes, we also hung out sometimes, but I wouldn’t say it’s more often than I hangout with friends nowadays. Technology was still part of my life, just in another form.

I’m not pro UN, but it seems they have argued that this was posted as satire.

That’s still not what the title said, first of all.

Is guix much different from Nix? I remember that it uses scheme instead of nix language, that it is more free-software purist, and also has less packages than nix. Are there any benefits?

I am not a fan of micro-blogging style social media. I find sites like reddit and lemmy a lot more useful for me.

I think the answer to your question is maybe both? Lemmy is attractive both because of its reddit-like features and its fediverse features. But maybe more reddit than fediverse

What’s link aggregatorness? I hear that term often to refer to Reddit and lemmy but I don’t understand what it means exactly. Obviously content on these sites is a lot more than “aggregating links” if I understand what aggregation means here.

What’s the reasoning behind it?

The blog will be somewhat work related, and I think getting an idea of if my methods to advertise the blog are working would be nice.

On that part, I do agree with you. I do not like mastodon just because I’m not a huge fan of the micro-blogging-focused user experience, but I do agree that there’s value in a platform not imitating Twitter but having some of the UX. Likewise, I think that there is value in another platform that would attract Twitter users. I think it could just be a separate mastodon instance that is modified to fit said user base.

I respectfully disagree with some of your points. The benefit of a Twitter clone that is federated (or more precisely, a Twitter clone that supports activityPub) is that the users of said Twitter clone can see content from and interact with users who aren’t on said clone, but another platform that supports activityPub. And conversely, I can see content from said Twitter clone without necessarily having to be on it, as long as I use some activityPub platform that fits my taste.

This provides a lot more choices. I can choose a platform with the best user experience for my taste, without any regard to privacy and moderation. That would be completely fine. Conversely, another person may choose to search for an instance based on their specific moderation, topics, privacy, or other preferences. Another person may even self host their own instance. All of those can interact with each other, and that is what makes it nice.

It looks like development on it has stopped for more than a year? Or am I missing something?

https://www.hexbear.net/post/159221

What exactly is hexbear?

Many front end devs do this. Front end devs aren’t necessarily designers! Moreover, it’s always better to start out with a bare UI, nail the functionality first before the design.

I don’t have a mastodon account, and making a mastodon account or instance for this purpose is not the experience I would like. But I understand this is the path of least resistance at the moment, but I wish there was some sort of service that can publish my blog to the fediverse like WriteFreely and Plume do.

How does it compare to vim?

Wish it was possible to use existing Hugo / Eleventy blog and somehow add federation to it. It feels like using a whole separate one makes it less worthwhile (and less customizable)

On the number of users shrinking, I’ll say that I quit using lemmy for several months, mostly due to losing hope on it. But after Reddit banned third party apps, I decided to come back.

Imo lemmy seems to have more features than Reddit also, like editing post titles, having text alongside an image post, using third party apps (which will stop soon with Reddit) etc. Reddit is very slow to add updates that make sense, but lemmy moves fast and is a great piece of software.

Nano is only better in having a lower learning curve, and still being sufficient for most people just wanting to get the job done.

Vim is way more capable and feature rich (especially after you extend with plugins), much more satisfying to use once you get the hang of it, and can be much faster

Where have you seen homophobia on this forum?

Ahh yes, blue Libya red Egypt

Why is this not big news? :( Mass shootings in US happen all the time yet always get big headlines. Why doesn’t this?

Free software is failing and getting co-opted because they thought getting a bunch of enthusiasts to boycott proprietary software was enough to win. As long as the means of production is owned by the ruling class, their interests will be favored. Our boycotts will cause little but inconveniences for ourselves.

Imo since Lemmy follows activity pub federation, it is best that this is done by some other program, and that it gets perfected there rather than be a secondary feature on Lemmy that doesn’t have all attention l

Motives do matter, but when the perpetrator literally said they would do it, then saying “I don’t see what their motive is” does not really refute that they did it.

The video is not out of date. Did he give some expiration date that I happened to miss? Did he take it back? I don’t see you citing any evidence of that.

It’s really weird to see people bending backwards to defend this.

I’m sorry but your analysis is very nonsensical. You’re analyzing motives. But the sabotage already happened. It is not a matter of speculation whether someone will gain from it or not. If you make an argument that they have nothing to gain, well I don’t know what to tell you. It happened, and they delivered on their promises exactly. I provide a link below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSPfXLPUJHM

They literally said they would do this lmao

Your logic doesn’t follow. The pipeline was in construction up until recently. Germany suspended it due to the war in Ukraine, but it was previously intending to use it, and it had stake in it. Moreover, Nord stream 1 was also in service before the war, and it was part of the sabotage.

Does this meme say it was? Or are you implying that because it wasn’t in operation yet that it has no benefit to Germany?