I’m a big fan of the Fediverse and Lemmy in particular. Thanks to the Fediverse, but mostly Lemmy, I was able to build my home lab and now when I walk around my house, the lights come on by themselves. I love the conversions I get into. I love the open nature of Lemmy and how you can look at the repositories and watch how it grows.

There’s definitely things that can be better and I’m happy to be on the train.

My only true desire is to see more people and communities distributed across more instances.

What did you figure out?

Honestly, I’m inebriated and so I have no doubt that I could’ve been a lot more fluffy in my approach. I also see at least one spelling mistake, so that’s double bubble bad by me.

Since you’re not OP, I can be unabashedly honest. Anyone that has been around open-source software knows that bug reporters are as unappreciated as they come, despite being a vital cog in the system, but holy hell, there’s no stamp card, you don’t say I submitted ten ideas, crown me king.

There’s literally a monthly Q&A where the OP could have a broader discussion about priorities and direction. There’s also a whole Github repository just for discussing ideas and direction, it’s the RFC one.

Anyway, I’m going back to enjoying my Saturday night.

You sound entitled as hell and most of your ideas read like stuff a project manager comes up with when trying to justify their job and I say that despite their being some good ideas in there. Anyway, it’s Saturday night, surely there’s better things to do than whine about the developers not implementing what you want?

LGTM +

True, I actually liked Windows phone. But the lack of software support killed it. Even whatsapp pulled the plug.

I think the adoption everyone is looking for on desktop is deceptive. The type of people that run Linux on desktop are averse to Telemetry and so desktop Linux will report much smaller numbers anyway. Consequently, everyone is hoping for Linux to become the standard in the professional space and there, it’s back to application support and the big one, compatibility. It’s all good if everyone in an office is using Linux, but they need to interact with the outside world, and if the outside world can’t read what they send, then it’s not even worth considering switching.

Do you really think generic Linux phones will ever be a thing? The people go where the apps are and there’s no reason for the most popular apps to make generic Linux apps. Just the idea of mobile Flatpaks makes me nauseous.

I don’t really see the point, but it seems to be something people want.

It doesn’t really matter what instance your account is on. You can make threads here from your kbin account. That’s the beauty of the threadiverse. In fact, you can even post threads here from mastodon.

Hey there, thanks for trying to make the fediverse a better place by generating content. However, you’ve posted this in the wrong community. You would be better off trying one of the following:

[email protected]

[email protected]

[email protected]

Good luck with your post in one of those.

If ALL featured every server running Lemmy, it would be very different and very busy. As it stands, there’s servers running Lemmy that your ALL never sees simply because it doesn’t know they exist and they’re busy AF too.

I think that’s what OPs been doing. Also I think ALL only catches what your server is federated with.

You know what I’ve come to realise about Lemmy. It’s only as good at the amount of work that you put in. By that I mean, most of Lemmy is like a secret hipster bar that you have no idea where it is until you know where it is and that’s Lemmy, you need to find the communities that you want or it will look like a tumbleweed convention.

Thanks for the useful insight.

You still have maps and GPS though.

You shine a torch at someone in the dark, you can see more than just them though

Why? What’s the benefit of adding weights? Surely smaller and lighter is better?

This is bloody excellent. Template please

As someone that got to watch some of these major changes taking place in real time, I’d just like to say well done and thanks everyone.