@freebliss this looks very interesting!
Since you explicitly propose this as an alternative to big infrastructures, is there a plan to use something like PeerTube to have people share their bandwidth?
Or some alternative to manage sending from 1 to many efficiently?
Otherwise it seems rather difficult to host anything popular as the bandwidth requirements (and associated costs) would quickly become prohibitive.
My experience with #elementaryOS so far has not been great. After installing I had to do a bit of tinkering to install the right Nvidia drivers and be able to boot to GUI, many times the system hangs after coming back from suspend, the default terminal has some issue that makes it laggy, etc.
@sergi
Is it recent or old hardware? If recent, you could check Fedora (only tinkering is installing coppr repo for ffmpeg), if not, Linux mint could be worth a try.
@alcinnz
I had limited success with elementary installs for previous Mac users... Nowadays Linux mint is my goto for people who just want something that'll let them use their computer.
Today, we launched our new Mastodon instance. It will ensure a privacy-focused space to engage with and get the latest from our Commissioners, departments, and the official voices of the Commission.
We want to thank @Mastodon for stewarding us and helping us make this possible.
Fostering European digital players is vital to our strategy for a stronger #DigitalEU.
This is a unique opportunity to grow the community even more. Let's get there!
@stefan nice!
How difficult would it be to include the date when the person who posted joined and compute the average "Mastodon age" associated to the groups using each app?
I wonder if there couldn't be a strong confounding factor, namely that early adopters may have used other apps (as the official app was not yet available) and have different practices.
Thus, using something other that the web app or the official app could be strongly correlated with how "old" your presence on Mastodon is.
Occasional remainder: individual action vs collective action is a false dichotomy!
What we need to be doing is helping our neighbours live lighter upon this earth of ours, relying less on the capitalist infrastructure. That's how we get change! Not by relying on politicians!
For instance: Have you checked if there's a Repair Cafe local to you? Which you can volunteer for?
@alcinnz
I mostly agree, I'd just nuance the "this is how we get change": pushing for better public policies on transportation, energy, and food is absolutely necessary (and not dichotomous either 😉)
@rysiek there are major limitations to this, though: many people like their community (the instance their account is on) and moving a whole community to a different server is generally not possible, which means that admins are mostly stuck on whatever software (usually Mastodon) they started with.
And most comunities are on Mastodon at the moment, meaning their is major inertia against moving to other platforms.
@sengi_app while I salute the initiative, I think using gForms is going to seriously limit its usability given the people using Sengi (and the fact that a google account is required to reply).
I think it might be best to redo it with another platform like Cryptpad or Yakforms: https://yakforms.org/pages/explore.html
@carol
A good read, though not seeing anything about reducing meat and fish consumption in a piece about "saving the planet" feels a bit weird (as it's the majority of all the non-climate impacts, plus 25-30% of the GHG emissions)