The article is nice, but I’m not sure if I’d send it to friends that aren’t familiar with the fediverse. It seems to gloss over some problems and focus less relevant ones

It doesn’t touch on the issues with Blueskys protocol and makes it sound like an equivalent choice (or worse, a better choice). In the downsides section it touches on racism in badly moderated instances, and the difficulty of setting up an instance. Those issues aren’t relevant to the vast majority of users who will join a large instance that has defederated from the bad stuff.

It’s a nice article for those who are already somewhat familiar, but a bad first impression

Good points, it’s hard to portray that part of the data either way

I’m really just splitting hairs, the chart is a helpful visualization otherwise. Thanks for sharing!

I like how it shows when the first and last person of each generation hits certain milestones.

However I’m not sure if the cutoff makes sense. If the first section is birth to 18, then the final could be retirement (or 60) to ‘death of the last person from that generation’. That would be more meaningful visually, and it would also show how many people from each generation were still alive at each point.

Since “first person to die” doesn’t make sense, it would need to be a straight line at whatever year is the last confirmed death

Thanks! :))

You can also share this in !fediverse@lemmy.world, there are a lot of people there :)

I like !privacyguides@lemmy.one because the project is behind it

Whenever friends ask about resources, I always link them to the privacyguides website. I should use their community more as well

My bad, I missed that one

I would say to just try it out and see how it is! The live USB works nicely and you can decide you don’t like a distro and move on rapidly. There are also tools out there that let you load up multiple distros on the USB at once, and then pick which one to use when you boot up.

I went through my own struggles with dual booting Linux some time ago. If you search on Lemmy, you can find those embarrassing posts. It was my fault, I got confident and messed with ‘grub’ in all the wrong ways, before cutting my losses early and reverting everything because I had other commitments to deal with.

The good thing though is that it’s totally possible to put Windows back 100% the way it was before, even after messing up as badly as I did (I couldn’t boot into either operating system because the machine couldn’t find the boot entry). Once you’re ready to replace windows with Linux (or dual boot etc.), make a good backup with something like Macrium Reflect and you should be safe to go for it. I highly doubt you’ll make the mistakes I did, the story is to say that you can mess up and be just fine!

As for your use case:

• affinity programs aren’t on Linux from what I remember, you might want to experiment and see if you can run it with Wine or if you have an alternative (ex. Dual boot, different programs)
• Not sure about Davinci, comments suggest that it runs ok on Linux. I like KdenLive

As for what people recommended, and what I’m planning to try soon

• Kubuntu (if you want Ubuntu that looks similar to windows)
• Fedora (what I tried last time)
• Linux Mint

I wasn’t sure myself honestly, thought I’d check if someone else brought it up first

I think people get super excited to share the good news that it’s not a company behind it and all the benefits that come with that

Going by the releases, it didn’t need updates that often, but it still needed updates to fix and ensure compatibility as things changed

Security wise, I think you’re right

It would need to keep up with future changes and any security updates

What ActivityPods effectively provides are automated mechanisms. They constantly check the contents of the Solid pod, and are notified whenever a change gets made.

Let’s say you’ve just made a post with your Fediverse app: a document representing a post is written in the Pod, then a dispatch mechanism acts as the user’s outbox and sends the activity out. Meanwhile, the corresponding inbox mechanism waits for replies.

What this could mean in practice is that editing a Fediverse post may be as simple as editing a corresponding file, while a mechanism pushes out an Update activity through your Outbox to make changes on the network.

I think I need an even more higher level explanation of Solid & Solidpods, but so far that sounds cool!

Would the data still live on your instance’s server or on user devices? If it’s the latter, how would it work if some people have really slow connections, or lose internet all together.

This is cool! How hard would it be to have a list where you can select which icons to have. That way you can pick the FOSS apps/services that you like or are using

Good luck with your classes!

Also, I think it was already possible to use Google Translate and others through the extensions. This is an improvement because it’s done locally

My understanding is that apple/google do that server side because its difficult to do on the phone.

FOSS wise there are a few tools out there but they are self hosted (ex. Immich). Don’t know if any app-only version exists yet

Oh that is odd, and it might be related to your instance because the thumbnail is showing up on lemmy.ca

Here is the post on each instance:

https://lemmy.kde.social/post/1042817

https://lemmy.ca/post/18414522

Ah it’s Threads…

Good that it’s fedi, bad that it’s threads. They definitely have the resources to run a government Mastodon instance, but no let’s stay beholden to the tech companies 😑

And none of them appear to have joined Bluesky yet, a competing decentralized social network running on its own AT protocol that recently opened general signups.

good.

Yea the other part of my reasoning is to try and prevent them from getting to that point.

The short version of which is that our biggest selling point is “Join Mastodon, you can see all the same content and do the same things, but it’s run by a non-profit instead of Facebook”. Defederation means we lose that point, and it’s going to be very difficult for Mastodon to compete with the money and manpower that facebook has.

“Join Mastodon to see content that you can’t see otherwise” will have a much harder time competing with “Join Threads to see content that you can’t see otherwise”

That’s a good point too :)