A new video from Nick at The Linux Experiment. I'm also sharing the PeerTube version for the sake of trying to expand my use of PeerTube and try to expand my video platform use beyond just YouTube.
NixOS is one of the few distros that legitimately offers something different. Some nice things:
The entire OS install is managed through config files, so instead of dealing with a billion shitty DSLs, you only deal with one.
Because of the above, builds are also reproducible.
Because it ditches the FHS for the Nix store, you can do things like install multiple versions of the same library side-by-side, which is impossible with traditional Linux package management.
Perhaps I've misunderstood how Lemmy works, but from what I can tell Lemmy is resulting in fragmentation between communities. If I've got this wrong, or browsing Lemmy wrong, please correct me!...
That fragmentation you describe is a feature of the ecosystem. If you dislike a particular instance's community and/or moderation policy, then there are alternatives that exist on other instances that can scratch the same itch. When a multireddit-style feature shows up on the platform, users will be able to get more posts put in their feeds as well if they wish to grab content from multiple instances. Users have a lot more granular control over their experience this way.
I had no idea of the size and variety of the Fediverse! It has me feeling a bit overwhelmed. I'm enjoying BookWyrm very much; it's the GoodReads/LibraryThing replacement I've been looking for for years....
Well, it is a new project, so it probably needs some optimization. As far as visual clutter goes though, I think Mastodon's quad column layout is much worse about that.
The project is only like a month or two old, though it is a fork of a more well-established Fediverse platform (MissKey), so it's still building up awareness of its existence.
The server list says that instance has 71 users, so that would probably be why. Posts only show up on an instance if something requests them (users following an account, searching a permalink, subscribing to a community, etc). There are solutions to this problem, such as relays in which servers agree to funnel a bunch of posts to each other periodically to share content. You should ask your instance admin if they have one set up, or if they'd be willing to if not. Otherwise, you should make an account on a larger instance, as those tend to be better federated.
Following users does help increase federation, yeah. Another solution is creating a dummy account that follows a bunch of users in order to pull in their posts.
NIX OS: the BEST package manager on the MOST SOLID Linux distribution (tilvids.com)
A new video from Nick at The Linux Experiment. I'm also sharing the PeerTube version for the sake of trying to expand my use of PeerTube and try to expand my video platform use beyond just YouTube.
The UK's Tory Government, With Labour's Help, Just Took Another Big Step Toward Outlawing Peaceful Political Protest (www.nakedcapitalism.com)
Why Student Debt Is So High (neuburger.substack.com)
The FBI Is Hunting a New Domestic Terror Threat: Abortion Rights Activists (theintercept.com)
WaPo Mad That Debt Ceiling Deal Didn’t Cut Social Security (fair.org)
One Tech Subcontractor’s Road to Unionization (jacobin.com)
Why Political Strategy Needs Karl Marx (jacobin.com)
Dorothy Thompson Was One of Britain’s Great Socialist Historians (jacobin.com)
I don't see how Lemmy will fill the gap of Reddit - it's resulting in fragmentation
Perhaps I've misunderstood how Lemmy works, but from what I can tell Lemmy is resulting in fragmentation between communities. If I've got this wrong, or browsing Lemmy wrong, please correct me!...
How Israeli Spyware Endangers Activists Across the Globe (znetwork.org)
Social Housing: How a New Generation of Activists Are Reinventing Housing (nonprofitquarterly.org)
News Brief: "Go Fly Yourself": Marketing 'Sex' and the Great Stewardess Rebellion of the 1970s — Citations Needed Podcast (soundcloud.com)
In Court Testimony, Climate Scientists Rebuke Montana for Support of Fossil Fuels (www.desmog.com)
Intolerable Conditions Drive ‘Shortages,’ Transit Workers Say (labornotes.org)
Will Erie Locomotive Plant Workers Strike for the Right to Strike over Grievances? (labornotes.org)
LA Times Frames School Board Melee as Clash of Protesters, Not Far-Right Attack (fair.org)
‘Despite Legalization, the People Harmed the Most Are Not Able to Benefit’ (fair.org)
Narendra Modi’s Electoral Bandwagon Went Off the Road in Karnataka (jacobin.com)
1,400 Pennsylvania Locomotive Manufacturing Workers Are on the Verge of a Strike (jacobin.com)
Other Fediverse projects (en.wikipedia.org)
I had no idea of the size and variety of the Fediverse! It has me feeling a bit overwhelmed. I'm enjoying BookWyrm very much; it's the GoodReads/LibraryThing replacement I've been looking for for years....