Because I want to control my own computer. I had to pay for the device, so I should be treated as the owner, yet Microsoft and Apple act like they own people’s computers, and build software that treats the computer as property of those corporations.

I don’t like tinkering just to get stuff working, so I use more user-friendly Linux distributions, and it’s been very smooth.

https://sepiasearch.org/ is a multi-instance search for PeerTube.

The real top boss is the Chairman of the Board of Directors, although the Chairman is often appointed CEO, it doesn’t always happen. The Board of Directors is made up of large shareholders - the people who actually own the company. The CEO is technically just an employee and needn’t own any shares at all (although that would be extremely abnormal).

So, there may actually be a time when a corporation’s Board decides to use an “AI” as their CEO to cut costs.

It’s still useful. You can’t guarantee that someone will have access to an emoji picker. I don’t think it’s built-in to the DE I’m writing this comment in.

Thanks. I did try again a couple of days ago and it works now.

How do I actually use it? I have an account, but when I go to the site it only shows me my “account dashboard” - how do I actually see what people have been posting?

It’s strange that the concept of efficiency seems to have been abandoned. Is consumption of vast computing resources no longer seen as indication of a design flaw?

I wouldn’t. I would just describe the services people might be interested in. Users have specific needs they want services to provide. I would talk to them in terms of those needs.

As for why federation, just mention that you don’t need to create many separate accounts. For example, you can follow a PeerTube account from Mastodon.

Makes sense to do that on Reddit itself. If you’re posting on the equivalent platform I guess you are talking to people specifically looking for alternatives. I was thinking more about advertising on non-equivalent platforms, like Mastodon on YouTube, PeerTube on Reddit, etc.

Honestly I’m not sure how Reddit itself became so popular among people who never used old Internet forums like I did, so the Threadiverse is something I don’t have ideas for.

Firefox is a Chrome alternative, Linux is a Window alternative.

These are not inaccurate descriptions, but it makes them sound like inferior imitations and gives the impression that they’ll always be second best. It is also a kind of free-advertising for Chrome/Windows.

“A cool new place to share links and discuss things”? Or just “a cool new social media”?

Upvotes/downvotes are unfortunately a fundamentally flawed concept. They originally served as an superior alternative to forums’ previous sorting method of most-recently commented, but they are far from flawless themselves.

My ideal alternative would be some kind of customisable sort order chosen by the user that uses some kind of sentiment analysis of the text to find the kind of posts the user is interested in. For example, you could sort by whether post look serious or joking, how long they are, ratio of words to hyperlinks, etc. Could also filter out ragebait and similar rubbish.

Of course I can see downsides - performance considerations, and it would only work for text posts and comments, but it’s just an idea off the top of my head.

Since anyone can create their own subreddit and become a mod there, does this mean that anyone can look at these profiles?

But why do people want their text editors to do completely unrelated tasks? Genuine question.

I’m curious - what are the advantages of using Bazaar to install Flatpaks as opposed to just installing Flatpaks via the Software Manager in Linux Mint, or equivalent in other OSs.

I just found out I can treat PieFed as an app on android (via Firefox), but the bars at the top and bottom seem to be stuck in light mode even though the phone is in dark mode. Is there a solution?

How do other Lemmy/PieFed/Mbin instances do it?

The forum would be part of the Fediverse, so if it has such issues, then so would every Fediverse site and the knowledge could be shared.

The main differences are:

• package management (how you install new programs)
• release model (fixed vs rolling)
• default desktop environments (the GUI / look and feel)

If a Fedi or BSky instance wants to support connecting to the other side, they should implement both protocols. Bridges are just a duct-tape solution.

I saw an interesting video suggesting that the real motivation is to give megacorps like Google a new business acting as “banks” for identity, i.e. the Internet would get so inconvenient that people would just save their identity with Google (or Meta, etc) and then use them to log in to other websites.

I probably explained it badly, but the video I saw is here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAd-OOrdyMw

People in the comments pointed out that those companies would also have the ability to delete or suspend your identity verification if you did something they didn’t like (or refused to do something they wanted). Reminds me of the SIN from Shadowrun .