I also use Debian Testing with GNOME and it works perfectly fine.

Think of Ubuntu as a supported version of Debian Testing.

If you’re going to build on top of something, it’s helpful to build on top of something that is supported and tested.

(FWIW I also run Debian Testing.)

They could just use IPv6. Legitimately values or not no one is going to understand them, much less get upset by them.

In any case I’m guessing it hasn’t had enough users to justify funding from Canonical.

in 2017 after shutting down the Unity development team and laying off nearly 200 employees.

Just in case it wasn’t clear, Canonical has no interest in funding it anymore. The project was then picked up my community maintainers, which based on the article was just one person who was 12, now ~15 years old. I bring up the age just to point out that, yes, school is a more important thing to focus on.

True, but this book is the best thing Microsoft has made.

You also have to keep track the site and how you spell it. For example is it “Microsoft” or “microsoft”?

And keep track of the current name of the site vs the old name. For example am I signing into Microsoft or Live.com or Xbox?

And keep track of my username. Is it my email? Which email? Which username?

I understand the concept but I think if falls apart fast.

Also DMs work on both new & old Reddit. Chat only works on new Reddit.

(Unless something has changed recently.)

In theory it is supposed to be, at the moment it is not possible. Bluesky uses the AT Protocol, vs Mastodon/Lemmy that use the ActivityPub Protocol. Unlike Mastodon/Lemmy, there are no open source AT Protocol servers, and there are no clients except for the Bluesky app, which only talks to the closed source servers. Additionally I think the AT Protocol doesn’t define enough so things like Authentication require something homebrew and possibly incompatible.

Also, because of all of this, there is at the moment no concept of federation on Bluesky.

Now, that isn’t to say that someday this will change, but currently Bluesky is just as centralized as every other service.

Because Bluesky blocks hate speech and Nazis. Sure Conservatives say they’re blocking “conservative ideas” but as soon as you ask which ideas specifically they throw a tantrum.

If no one cares enough to reopen it once every 6 months, then it’s probably fine to ignore it indefinitely.

It’s a matter of psychology. If I file a bug and it is ignored for years, I’m annoyed but eventually I either accept it, find a workaround or move on to something new. I may still file bugs in the future, especially if I’ve got a workaround, since other people probably want to know.

However if my bug is closed and I have to reopen it every six months. Now I’m kinda pissed. I have to be reminded every six months for years that this is just broken. I put in the effort, but now some bot has just come along and closed it. Plus it’s going to be harder to find an existing or similar bug. I’m less likely to look at closed bugs. But also, what if I find four similar closer bugs. Now if someone was tracking that bug they don’t realize this has happened to four different users. If we had just kept it in one big we’d all know. Also someone elses workaround is better than mine, or maybe it’s worse.

I understand if a project wants to declare bug bankruptcy. It shouldn’t happen often but if you do that’s the time to organize things.

Not sure if it’s just per client but Voyager has a “random community” button on the search tab.

This gives them hardly any information beyond what they already have.

Except now they know the individuals using your Internet.

Sure if you live alone they already can easily put that information together. However if you have a partner, a relative and children all living in one house they now know who is in that home.

Plus maybe no one in the house uses Twitter and Aunt Alice the Twitter user came to visit, does she need to reverify? Your ISP knows that now.

ISPs would be gaining a lot of new information.

It’s exactly what Twitter did too. Start off all open and friendly, here is our simple API, have fun, and people did. Then one day Twitter decided the API was too open and started to restrict it, limit tokens and users, charge out the ass. (And that was all long before Muskrat took over.)

In fact that’s true for a lot of tech companies.

One of the things that gives me hope for Lemmy is the speed at which it got great apps using that open API.

I agree but that is what Twitter seems to have done and for some reason it’s still around. Dying, but still around.

They’ll never remove it because that’s how they get AI training data.

It’s also a (US) election year, which tends to just be crazier than normal. It’s possible Reddit is tweaking things, but it’s also possible that election years bring out the worst in people. I definitely noticed a change back in 2016, less in 2020 but also COVID made everything weird.

There is also the obvious exodus of users in the past year. I’m not saying it’s a lot in terms of numbers, and I’m sure they were replaced, but I suspect some shift in demographics.

Also Twitter. Twitter had a huge rage problem before Muskrat took over, but now it is soooooo much worse. For some reason people don’t leave and then I’m sure carry over that rage to other sites.

You’ve been duped.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Millennials/

Seems to be the “real” subreddit.

https://old.reddit.com/r/millenials

With a missing second “n” seems to be a bot filled hell hole.

But also, I only left reddit a year ago and have never heard of the sub so who knows.

Also remember that Reddit as a whole is only going to get worse. The only goal is to make as much money as possible before it crashes in a cesspool of pure garbage like Facebook or Twitter.

Specifically https://youtu.be/KMU0tzLwhbE

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Conceptually I get what you’re saying, but I’ve never used Twitter and I dropped Reddit in July cold turkey.

I have had no issues being where the people are just sticking to the Fediverse.

I don’t feel like I’ve missed anything. I did pick up Mastodon, but that’s just lurking. I picked up a few news apps to fill in a blank or two, but those usually end up on Lemmy anyway.