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I feel like there is a massive branding issue with Masto. Derives its name from an extinct animal (often misspelled or confused with the band), toots sound funny. Twitter got this right from the get-go.

1TB cap is a lot of internet, especially for sat connectivity.

I always liked Friendica's approach to use a LAMP stack for easier deploy https://friendi.ca/resources/requirements/

Doge?

There is no free speech, really. It is just various forms of preferred speech. This moniker has been hijacked by right-wingers recently. What really scarce is a reliable speech. Noise to signal ratio is really bad in social media. Especially due to state actors with their amplification of disinfo.

Mastodon should stop mimicking Twitter (or TweetDeck, to be precise) and go for the internet forum revival.

There is nothing that can compare with this addictive ticker. A huge and lindy network effect.

AirDrop? This is maybe the largest deployed peer-to-peer solution. Sad that it is iOS only.

Full of spite. We'll see. But moderation was kinda solved at Something Awful by demanding to pay 10 bucks at sign up. Mr. Musk may use something like this; he can demand 10 dogecoins in order to unblock someone mischievous. Hell, it could even be proportional to the reach of the account.

There is Chinese leverage over Musk and the Saudis, so, it is diverse indeed.

I respect such a blind bet with Metaverse but FB is still a trashy bloated hellsite. I wish they make more improvements to their legacy product.

His other venture, Tesla, is famously hostile to repairmen and closed up. I doubt it. Not his MO.

I expect mainly an integration of some annoying monetization schemes and, of course, dogecoins. Moderation is a cursed issue and an influx of toxic content/users from Parler/GAB/Truth will only aggravate it.

Yeah, people know this for a long time, since the Book of Revelation.

Nice cover, close Putin's ally has also provided him with 250 million to make the app. Follow the money.

Kids love Manjaro these days.

There is a port of sorts: https://github.com/elfmz/far2l Still an early stage but nonetheless.

Netflix's "Maniac" is an interesting recent example of retrofuturism in a show.

I'll wait for addons and PWA support.

>Regulation is the only way forward if we do not want to end in a dystopia.

but what kind of regulation? The Access Act?[0]

[0]: https://www.scribd.com/document/431507473/GOE19968

also https://github.com/dessalines/lemmy

I prefer this approach:

>Systemd is included by default but not enabled. You can scan your MX system and discover files bearing "systemd" names, but those simply provide a compatibility hook/entrypoint when needed.

>MX Linux uses systemd-shim, which emulates the systemd functions that are required to run the helpers without actually using the init service. This means that SvsVinit remains the default init yet MX Linux can use Debian packages that have systemd dependencies such as CUPS. This approach also allows the user to retain the ability to choose his/her preferred init.

Source: https://mxlinux.org/about-us/

Yes, I use IRC through a Matrix bridge in the Riot client. It just works, provides persistence.

Web Browser: Chromium

Email Client: Delta Chat

Terminal: Terminology

IDE: Geany

File manager: PCManFM or Rox-Filer

Basic Text Editor: Leafpad

IRC/Messaging Client: Riot.im

PDF Reader: Okular/Evince

Office Suite: LibreOffice

Calendar: California

Video Player: SMPlayer

Music Player: DeaDBeeF

Photo Viewer: nomacs

Screen recording: peek

https://thelounge.chat/ is quite easy to install and provides persistence. Also, IRC channel history through Matrix bridge is persistent.

Final Cut Express and Color

IBM Lotus Symphony (pleasant and convenient GUI)

and ofc Google Reader

>One day I checked just for testing and more people are on https://hike.in than on Telegram from my contact book. That was surprising. Didn't try any further and uninstalled it.

This reminds me of Viber, a local success in the Eastern Europe.

Jitsi Meet just works for me: https://meet.jit.si/

Fediverse is the closest thing to Usenet nowadays.

I'm very disappointed, Mozilla. This move completely hinders RSS discovery and use. RSS isn't dead yet. It's actually an important technology for the free and open web. Pocket? I doubt...