Rocky's reaction seems the same as Alma, current long-term solution is they don't know. A more businessly optimism in the post doesn't really make up for a clear technical plan going forward.
knowncarbage
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The source can be open, just not easy to access...send an email and in 30 days they provide it, they are not obligated to have everything available instantly as they do now or provide an infrastructure to make life easy for community projects.
They could also mix in proprietary code to make things more awkward afaik.
I'd bear in mind in-house made applications RH provide include systemd, wayland, pipewire & gnome....as long as your distro and use case don't depend on any of these, there's no need to worry.
Embrace, extend, extinguish.
Rocky & Alma were easy targets. Next up thumbscrews on systemd!
That seems to be what has just happened. Beehaw, one of the larger instances, has just defederated lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works. I can see both side from fmhy.ml or kbin at the moment.
I'm wondering if it would be easier to observe all this from a personal server that federates with everyone instead of my account and feed being determined by the relations of tankies to queer safe spaces in real time
anything is possible, the fediverse is no exception.
I'm not really surprised. Reddit is massive now and a gold mine of content, they can likely afford losing a few million users and a few thousand subs as they move towards retirement planning. It seems like a reasonable business decision to me. They will lose a chuck of current user base trust and support, but may gain trust from users of Insta, Twitter, Facebook, Tik-Tok etc users if they spend millions on advertising and fixing the fucking video player instead of spending the money supporting 3rd party API access.
The Reddit stuff all makes sense to me and I don't blame anyone, the only real problem is Reddit got too good and therefore had to snap. Would be nice to still be around to see the fediverse being taken over by the sith one day.
Working between servers.
Just simple stuff like searching, adding, customizing feeds. Clicking an alert to take me to the content will take me to a server I'm not logged into and I need to go back and find the same post via my own server to comment. Not the end of the world for me but likely a big issue for many potential users if the are use to mainstream social media that 'just works'.
I'm not sure the 'like email' thing helps.
Email is confusing and not what most people use to connect with others. I don't know anyone who met via email.
Trying to get groups of people to connect meaningfully over email didn't work. Messenger apps did work as they removed user freedom to top-reply and break everything.
I'm vaguely interested in IT, seflhost a little and compile a kernel from time to time but email still seems esoteric and confusing to me.
Join the fediverse! It's as simple as setting up an email server!
Good points.
I'll be going back to Reddit too but I suspect everything will not be as it once was and much of it will be finding out where others have fled to.
There was ~1-5000 people on here over the last year or so which isn't huge in terms of subreddits, it seems to have jumped to 100,000+ in the past week or two. Teh current content seems reasonable for an ~100k subreddit.
I love Linux, been using it daily for well over a decade but simple stuff people take for granted like gaming, drivers, wi-fi, touchpads, secureboot, Adobe, Office, printing and device syncing alongside the ever ongoing dependency hell can be an issue for some.
I don't think I've met anyone else in meatspace who uses Linux as a desktop or laptop. Installing a novel OS isn't something people tend to do and comes with risks.
The worry is that Lemmy is then not so much a replacemt for Reddit and more of replacement for r/Linux and related subs.
Whilst it's nice to go online and tell people how amazing and easy I'm finding it is running Gentoo on old hardware with public binhosts I would also like access to a majority of communities who won't know what that means.
You could just use Fedora and not submit any bug reports as that would help them. Just quietly leech.
It's nice if you can find something that both does what you need and agrees with your philosophy...but usually some compromise is required.