This is my biggest fear. The hidden weakness of the fediverse is that the largest implementation gets to set the rules of federation

Self imposed gatekeeping. Damn that’s real

People over complicate federation. I write federated software so lemme break it down. Federation just means data sharing. When you post something on a federation enabled website it sends a copy of your post to everyone who follows you and tells their service to store your data in their database in addition to their own data. What this means is that you can’t just blow up a server to shut it down because everyone in the game has a copy.

Sitting around waiting for things to compile is one of my least enjoyable life experiences

I’ve been using Linux for over 25 years but I hate using it as desktop. Wsl provides a nice environment for development and app running in a Linux environment without sacrificing the manifold reasons for running windows. Since wsl2 Linux gui programs even run natively without having to install an x server

I was recently diagnosed with a personality disorder. High emotion is a symptom. Might want to talk to a psychologist

We got the smart people from Reddit

I’m curious what about that instance made it so popular? Isn’t it just another Lemmy codebase? Intuitively I would have thought lemmy.ml would have grown but I’m not super familiar with lemmy land

this is why I like kbin. it’s the best features of mastodon and lemmy

space lasers

This got me thinking, I wonder if the reason they don’t fix homelessness is to create artificial scarcity for home values

Startups inside companies usually get shut down once the bill gets too high. I’ve experienced this first hand

COBAL is still a thing

What is MAD?

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Ironically the link in OP is to the actual admin of this site

why did they defederate?

I think a measure of success is how quality the content is. Even if there was only 2 people on here, If the content was good I would visit every day.