People aren’t going to be convinced of social/communism overnight.

I celebrate the move to BlueSky as positive in that they are no longer propping up an apartheid tech bro who’s now running a meme branch of US Government, and also because many of them are doing the thing they were scared to do before: leave. They now know how that feels and what it will be like rebuilding friend groups and such.

It’s not the anti-corpo step many are deluding themselves to believe it is, but getting out of the muck and learning how to take the step to change something are both things I see as positives that can be guided to better things in the future.

I see that, now that you explain it that way. That does seem ethically questionable.

I’ll have to take some time to learn more about the details, so I can make my own informed decision.

1. That’s lazy journalism. There’s a functional search bar as well as trending hashtags.

2. There will never be suggestions by design, but there’s accounts like FediFollow and guides on how to get started with Mastodon. If you meet those people in the future, tell them to follow hashtags for topics they like, and encourage them to start using hashtags. They’ll find people that way.

3. This is also by design: there’s no suggestions, because there’s no algorithm. You decide what goes on in your feed (boosting is another important part of that). If you’ve looked at everything, explore a new hashtag, follow more people, check the Local or Global feeds, or Satan forbid anyone actually take that as a sign to take a break and go touch grass.

I have Bazzite on a laptop for the ease of use and general resistance to breakage, and Spiral Linux in a VM. The latter works flawlessly that way, like it was always meant to be in a VM.

Ah, I see. It doesn’t particularly bother me, but I can appreciate why it might bother somebody else with different values.

Thanks!

or it sells out to another already established billionare that abuses the power of media control etc…

This cannot be overstated. That’s exactly how Elon ended up with Twitter, and nobody should think for a second that there aren’t richer, more tactful billionaires who could keep people credulously swimming in the propaganda in order to make their power plays.

I give it four years before their first enshittifying changes are announced.

It really depends what you’re after. You’ll find cool people by following hashtags, certainly, but if there’s somebody in particular you like, follow the person, too. Do both.

Also, some people bring their bad habits from Xitter and the rest, so it helps to have all the options.

Tldr, to help fight patent trolls:

They’re asking you to find evidence of preexisting technology – referred to by patent lawyers as “prior art” – that can kill off bad patents. This could be open-source documentation (including release notes), published standards or specifications, product manuals, articles, blogs, books, or any publicly available information.

They use this info to essentially undercut and invalidate the patent trolls’ filing, killing their ability to file suit on that patent again.

There’s also a contest with a $3000 prize for anyone who can help kill a current one on their plate.

https://patroll.unifiedpatents.com/contests/s3vQkRdTC6coNkjyx

I feel like there was a YouTube Premium series that paid homage to the original story, too, but I don’t remember the name of the show.

and try to effect the conversation,

And these people are insane. Elon has total control over the narrative, and the people that believe they can “throw sand in the gears” with some quippy xeets are delusional.

At least they’re moving, but fucking Christ; far too many people have main character syndrome.

When do we get the Home Assistant who falls in love with its owner and tries to kill their partner out of jealousy?

"States should decide everything!

…no, not like that!"

(Note that hypocrisy is fully expected, but they don’t get a pass from me pointing it out simply by virtue of it being their expected MO).

Yes. Isn’t it fun having a perpetual 54yo edgelord, who’s mentally 14 and stuck in the late 90s, in charge of an entire governmental department? 🙃

Hashtag follows were a game changer for my experience. The people that remember to use them usually care about what they’re saying, too, and seem to be more invested in the Fedi way of doing things.

I also recommend https://fedi.tips/ for getting started.

For anyone here who wants to switch to Mastodon, I recommend checking this guide first:

https://fedi.tips/

And don’t expect it to be Twitter. Expect better.

Mastodon is similar, and I like it but it’s not Twitter

And that’s honestly a good thing. We don’t need Twitter clones, because as much as people remember the Twitter of yore fondly, the people in charge made some really terrible decisions for their users, and a lot of people have forgotten that.

Mastodon is and should always be distinct from the Twitter-likes; if it starts to be a little too similar, then it’s probably lost its way.

AI creates fiction that sometimes intersects with reality, in the same way that Legends & Lattes has a few real-world things like coffee shops and lattes, but the things like orcs, ratkin, succubi, and magic that comprise the rest of the details are still currently fiction.

People just need to learn to assume LLMs are always writing fiction with a handful of details borrowed from real life.

Agreed. I would recommend it for reproducibility, and it’s mostly stable, but it’s like Arch Linux for people who think Arch is too easy. Plus, the documentation still sucks. The basic packaging tutorial for something new that’s not in the repos is essentially, “Here’s how to make a ‘Hello World’ package… And now that those five steps are complete, you are a NixOS master who can package anything.”

I hope it comes into its own, sincerely, but it’s definitely not for the average user just yet.

Since you’re a Linux old-timer, what’s your beef with Fedora, if you don’t mind sharing?

I do want to add Bazzite’s team seems to have only one person who can sign releases, and they did misplace a key at least once leading to nobody receiving updates until they replaced the key in their installation.

Not to be “that guy,” but I would like some sources on this. As far as I understand it, the signing happens automatically in GitHub via the private keys during the automated build process.

Additionally, they didn’t misplace a key; they didn’t yet have a process in place for pushing a new key to end-users (they had/have a plan to rotate their signing keys from time to time). Details about what happened can be found here. In my year of using Bazzite, I haven’t seen this issue reoccur, so I am writing under the assumption that they’ve indeed fixed the internal process that caused the problem.