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Has development stopped completely?
  • 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

  • Fornite on linux
  • Yuzu is an interesting idea, I haven't thought of that, but last I checked a few months ago, it was still not working, and I heard using wine to run the windows version can get you banned so I never tested it.

    On my steam deck I've been using Xbox cloud gaming (free if you're willing to wait) or Amazon Luna (if you have prime), and they work decently well, much better than "not running at all".

  • UAW’s demand for a 32-hour work week would be a win for the planet
  • what? the benefit is clearly adding a whole day to rest, if you're fried after 8 hours, the additional 2 isn't going to feel better worse, but you'll gain a whole day to rest. I always am tired on days where I work over 8 hours, but so happy I get another full day off.

  • LASIM - Migrate Your Lemmy Accounts Between Instances
  • I'm not sure if it was as much of that and more so people who didn't wanna go to another instance were complaining about how they essentially locked that name just because they throught the reddit android mods should be the true successors and some were very against the idea of just giving control to ex reddit mods. I didn't notice it took off again either but people were really calling on the admins to replace them

  • Removal of piracy communities
  • I wonder if that's the point, I mean it probably is abit much to be the biggest name and have a lot of people attempting to join. That was the whole goal was small narrow focus instances, so by intentionally provoking members that tend to be more techy and understand how to change instances, they're pushing them to help grow other instances and help limit flow into lemmy.world.

    Or not, I wonder if soon it'll make sense if instances become more democratic and allow member voting (that have been apart of the server for some time) for decisions like this, people will be mad either way (especially with only two options of fed or defed) but letting it be clear that the people are ok with it.

  • Removal of piracy communities
  • With federation, the content is shared between servers, that's the act of federation. It downloads the posts from the other instance. So it would then be stored on lemmy.world, the only way to stop that is to defederate. The mobile apps mostly solve this problem as you can view content from lemmy.world and choose to add other instances, but the browser version isn't setup to work that way, so it's less than perfect, but it's supposed to be easy for this content to exist all on its own and only show to other users in a single place when they want that. So if the admin team is afraid the largest community on a small and growing platform won't have the means to fight a legal battle no matter if it is legal or not (I've been hearing a lot of legals), I get their reaction. hell reddit could easily target and crush Lemmy.world in court if they wanted to kill the platform. It isn't much work as unfortunate as it is to go to that instance for that content

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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

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

  • Suggestions for Canvas 2024 (or any future events)
  • I agree, we can just let it be a free for all but maybe someday we'll do around events or something, so there are themes for everyone to try following (like around Christmas, the Linux community does a penguin with a Santa hat)

  • 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.
  • 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.

  • Nowadays, what are the drawbacks and limitations of using Linux for gaming? What distro would you guys advise?
  • I know you dissed cloud gaming, but Xbox cloud gaming has actually worked fairly well for me personally on my steam deck, and for the most part (after some config), runs nearly as good as inhome streaming, which 99% of the time I can't even tell isn't running on device. I've also messed with Nvidia gforcenow and Amazon luma and those could fill a pretty big Linux compatibility gap if I solely gamed on Linux (probably using a controller or steam deck due to xcloud gaming not supporting mouse or keyboard input yet but it's progress). I even figured some interesting things you can do with steam regarding that, in addition to Microsoft's instructions on adding xcloud gaming to steam deck, like setting up different launch options to handle different users under different Microsoft accounts, directly linking a game (having a non steam game called Fortnite with a custom icon that launches xcloud gaming 's url for that game and boots right into it) and some others to make it more enjoyable but just like everything on Linux you gotta tinker with it. The "no native gamepass" is a big deal to me lately, it's actually a pretty nice service and I remember seeing posts a few years ago talking about windows store format version of proton which would allow gamepass to run natively on Linux but I think we're still awhile form that happening.

  • 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.

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    Another win for the decentralized Fediverse when a government domain takeback can’t shut it down!
  • 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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    should locking and forced "merger" of communities be allowed?
  • 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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    should locking and forced "merger" of communities be allowed?
  • The thing is, each instance isn't supposed to have their own of each community, like the goal is to have communities spread all over the fediverse. Lemmy.world not having a c/android isn't a bad thing, because you can always connect to any other one.

    The parking community name is a good point if it is against the rules but I feel like that rule is just designed to do exactly what you're looking for, having a version of each community on lemmy.world, defeating the whole point of the fediverse.

    Lemmy really needs to figure out a way to group many smaller instances of the same topic into one, like a multi-reddit feature. That way people can subscribe to a topic and it will combine all posts from the smaller android communities without having to create more and continue fragmenting it

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

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