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Is there a more politically conservative part of the fediverse?

I think it'll be tough to find that corner of it... I think I saw a conservative community on lemmy.world but the platforms original purpose was to get away from the big, controlling, capitalist social media platforms the likes of Twitter, Instagram, reddit, etc. Like mastodon, the largest part of the fediverse (I'm pretty sure), grew alot when twitter was brought by Elon, and more moved after he messed up the platform enough, saying they'll create their own platform where hate won't be allowed. It's kinda against it's nature to have much conservative-ness.

Not trying to be rude as based on how this sounds, you seem nice enough and not crazy, but places like mastodon are basically the left's version of "Truth social" where people are pretty ok with saying "I don't want those thoughts spread here" those thoughts they don't want are usually things like homophobia or transphobia, but those are fairly common on the right even if you don't share them.

It's an interesting thought and would probably be alittle healthier, but hey you're still here being able to provide that counter point of view

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Another win for the decentralized Fediverse when a government domain takeback can’t shut it down!

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You have to remember that until recently, there was sub 100 daily users, this wasn't a big platform, and it wasn't just lemmy.ml, but a bunch of <10 user instances.

It wasn't worth paying for a small side project until it wasn't and at that point it was too late, plus who would have predicted that the gov of Mali would forcefully take back all of their domains?

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Has development stopped completely?

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People forget projects like this are done for fun. They put a lot of polish and organize it well enough that it looks professional, but just like this, it can be a single dev working on it on their free time. its super easy to create a project, get busy, and just fall off. They're allowed to do that, plus while there's always more stuff to do, even the existence of this app is already impressive, so I thank them for the work, and until I decide to start coding during my free time instead of playing video games or watching TV, I try not to be disappointed when a project slows or even dies.

I hope the original dev is doing good, I thank them for their work, and congratulations on the twins, hope everything is going well for them, and hope they only come back when they feel ready, not when they feel forced to

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should locking and forced "merger" of communities be allowed?

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Isn't the whole point of Lemmy and the way communities work is if you want to moderate and don't like the way the existing one does it, then create your own? Like I get your point here but basically it sounds like the ones in charge of it said "oh we don't want to do this anymore". If they opened it and started it off, it sucks it's closed but a new one can always be reopened.

Unless you're looking to NOT do it that way, and have the admins help find new mods for any large community that decides to do something similar

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look, lemmy.world is back up again...(rule)

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I know it feels like its that often, but its actually still in the upper 90s atleast according to the status site, and its 89% for the last week on an external status page (which probably sees its up by attempting to load the page so its probably close to real life data)

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I just hopped on today and the site is very unusable right now

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As a Lemmy user, I believe the way to tell is when looking at the top, you should see the user@instance, and it is posted to "[email protected]", this community is the home of the lemmy.world instance so it's abit confusing, but say "[email protected]" is how it should show for Lemmy users

Edit: and speaking of the "first time I've seen a federated post", I heard kbin.social turned off federation since it was getting overloaded with users, much less other instances. It'll slowly get better

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Tired of Jeff Bezos controlling your doorbell cam? I made a privacy focused one that's based on an ESP32 with local Home Assistant integration.

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I'm surprised I haven't heard more of this (makes me think its impossible), but I feel like the ideal world is buying big tech's hardware and overriding its firmware/software to talk to home assistance locally. I saw a post recently about someone making an google nest speaker work with home assistance and they really just made their own speaker and shoved it in a nest mini body. I like the hardware I have, I just wish I had more control over it, and sadly I don't know nearly enough to mess with firmware myself.

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Lemmy World outages

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If you got any programming skills, Lemmy's code is open source and improvements to these expensive calls (or just any call) would most likely help the server. I'm also sure moderation tools would probably make their job easier and just improvements to the platform as a whole would probably help (more users, more possible donations, especially if it gets closer to platforms like reddit)

But without any technical skills like that, probably just helping communicate stuff like this, like if someone's complaining, explaining this, is probably the best you can do (and it ain't much)

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should locking and forced "merger" of communities be allowed?

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Yeah they're saying they just gave it up. The thing is, I get wanting to be different from reddit, but over half of our users came from reddit, I miss using it at times, and many moved over solely to stick it to spez but don't have any fundamental problems with how reddit is setup. Obviously Lemmy improves on it in ways, but Lemmy can 100% use reddit as influence to grow.

If r/android is trying to move to Lemmy, most of this didn't really exist until people moved from reddit, yeah they should have moved eariler, but to me, c/android should be the spiritual successor to r/android, and while I'm ok with different mods, if the original subreddit just up and moved 1 to 1 to Lemmy, I wouldn't be upset, I probably would have done the exact same thing and gave the community to them, because they helped grow that community on Reddit and seemingly are willing to do it here too.

Basically ideas and pepper from reddit aren't bad solely because they came from reddit, not ALL outsiders are our enemies.

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[MEGATHREAD] What did you buy in the Steam Summer Sale?

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Building off what the other guy said, you'll want to upgrade the hard drive when you can, I got the 64gb one and got two 500+ gb sd cards, but the shaders needed for the games can only be stored on the internal memory from what I've seen, and even having a few larger games installed has filled up the majority of my internal storage, to a point where I couldn't download updates for flatpacs or run some games due to so LITTLE storage. I'm going to look into upgrading my drive because it became such a problem for me

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Lemmy.world Admin Response to Meta/Threads

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Jesus, anyone who disagrees with me doesn't care about Lemmy? I mean 1. The admin who posted this is literally the owner/hoster of the instance, who's doing this because he wants to support the platform. He spends his personal time and effort to make lemmy.world a thing and just because he isn't planning on doing what you want until he has more info, he should be removed?

Plus since when is one instance all of Lemmy? People can go elsewhere and leave lemmy.world to die if it's really that controversial of an opinion, but this has nothing necessary to do with the platform itself, any other instance can do what they want, and thread has nothing to do with the activityPub standard yet so beyond seeing their post, it can't effect it anymore

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Nowadays, what are the drawbacks and limitations of using Linux for gaming? What distro would you guys advise?

A big one for me and the main reason I haven't started using Linux full time, and I'm sure it's in your points but not called out directly but anti cheat support is terrible on Linux. I own a steam deck and I used to play Fortnite with my wife and her brothers and it can technically run it (it worked on windows and install), and even if you use proton to run the windows version, I've heard their anticheat can straight up ban you because "Linux isn't a supported os at this time". It's not that their anticheat doesn't work on Linux or is missing a proton extension, but solely epic doesn't want to so they aren't supporting it. This is fairly common with big multiplayer games, like Fortnite, halo, call of duty, battlefield, and alot of others. It's a pain since proton is built as a "use at your own risk, may not work 100% but it works atleast" and some companies actively refuse to allow that. The only way I've been able to play any of those games is by either cloud gaming or in home streaming which isn't available sometimes. So until Linux doesn't have that limitation in gaming, where alot of major triple A titles actively refuse to work solely cause it's Linux, I can't switch my personal PC to Linux as I already got my steam deck for Linux gaming, and my windows desktop as a backup.