Side note: when linking to a community you have to do !community@instance. If you do !fediverse@kbin.social, it links to kbin.social’s fediverse community for everyone. If you just write !fediverse, that links to !fediverse@programming.dev for me, !fediverse@kbin.social for you and other kbin.social users, !fediverse@lemmy.world for lemmy.world users, etc.
You won’t have all the features of mastadon with a lemmy account, but here are some things that can happen.
Mastadon users can post to lemmy and kbin communities. You can reply to these posts and both lemmy and mastadon users will be able to see it. For the mastadon users, the comments look like replies on a mastadon thread.
Mastadon users can also comment on lemmy/kbin posts. You can reply to those comments, upvote/downvote them etc.
Mastadon users can follow lemmy and kbin communities. But lemmy users can’t follow mastadon users yet. Kbin users can follow mastadon users. The reason kbin is less popular than lemmy is because kbin lacks mobile apps.
You don’t need to subscribe to a community to post. You can post to any lemmy or kbin community from any lemmy or kbin account as long as the account hasn’t been blocked.
There is no difference in making accounts as long as you’re not blocked. The only difference is that no single entity can control lemmy. The people who control dbzero are different from the people who control lemmy.world.
Ah, that’s fair. My brain autofilled a “you” in there.
I don’t consider guys to be a gendered word. I feel like guys has been used to refer to both genders for decades at this point.
You guys is synonymous with y’all
Why are you bringing gender into something that doesn’t need any gendering?
flipboard.social
I knew mastadon was the largest, but I didn’t realize how much larger it is. Mastadon is 78% of the fediverse users, while lemmy is third place at 3.3%. Misskey is second place with roughly double lemmy’s users. Looks like it’s a jp only thing.
Bunch of rich retired people move there.
That would be a permanent increase /decrease.
There’s always a chance. Do you live around a nuclear plant by any chance?
Yep, that should be fine.
You need to make sure there’s enough space for your installers to make a grub partition, but yes, if there’s enough space, they will make the partitions themselves. You just need to tell them how big you want the partitions to be.
As for how exactly you add each distro to the grub config, refer to the distro specific grub instructions. Some user friendly distros auto detect and add themselves to grub, but some of the more customizable and bare bones distros need manual config.
I edited the comment you are replying to to answer more of the questions.
You would want the partitions you mentioned as well as a grub bootloader partition.
For the bootloader questions: You just have to go to your bios (spam a function key during start up, which function key depends on manufacturer) and change the boot order. The order of things which happen when you startup your machine is:
For the other questions: You might have to manually choose what to mount where. For each distro, you will want to mount a boot partition (your grub partition), a swap if your ram is low (make all your distros share the same swap partition), and a unique home partition.
You might also want to mount a shared files partition. These would be files you want stored locally that you can access from all the distros. Don’t mount this in the install process, instead mount it after you install from whatever file manager you use on each distro. Make a ~/shared folder and mount it to that.
The system won’t do that by itself. I would recommend letting one of your distros do it. During the installation process, when you set that bootloader partition to be the boot partition, many distros will automatically install grub if it doesn’t exist and add themselves to an existing grub config if it does exist.
Find a distro which installs with a default grub bootloader and make that the first distro you install.
Grub is compatible with pretty much everything.
https://www.protondb.com/explore