Kaldo

Oh you have an issue on Linux? Just try a different distro

(this one hurts more because it technically usually works)

Someone must have signed off on this and thst person should have gotten jail time IMHO.

I’ve been using logseq for a few months now, can you go into more detail why you switched to Joplin? You can also just stick to pages rather than the journal with logseq (it’s mostly what I’ve been doing) so I’m not sure from just that comment what’s the benefit of Joplin.

Why was there even pressure to deliver if the official API wasn’t even out yet? I thought they were just working on UI and basic functionality until they can plug in the API, so if anything they had more time and leisure than if everyone were screaming “i need it now”. It seems more likely they just bit more than they could chew and decided to give up the app development since it ended up being harder than they thought (and that’s completely fine to do). You don’t really make an app like this overnight, especially if you have no prior experience doing it.

Is Matrix’s problem just the large scale? I thought it worked relatively well if you’re just using it for personal needs like smaller servers and personal bridges.

Keet is closed-source app with built-in crypto, I am not touching it with a 10ft pole. Holepunch does sound like interesting technology at first glance. It doesn’t solve any of the issues mentioned above besides connectivity however.

I’m not really going to get into the technical aspect since I feel neither of us know enough to tell how feasible it is (although I think you’re wrong since you do need trackers in order to find at least one other member of the swarm), but this part

If they both aren’t online at once, messages won’t get delivered. Which is not a big deal for a modern smartphone given that most of them are online close to all of the time.

I just a horrible take. You can’t base your business model on “modern phones being online close to all of the time”. You can’t have random data loss whenever someone goes out of service area, has to turn on airplane mode, runs out of battery, has a software error or just an update or some other kind of temporary downtime? That’s not how you design any software, less alone a dependable messaging service. You can’t just “stipulate that”.

You can also just hook up any old phone or computer, install the app, and let it run as the server.

If you have a static IP address, if you want to bother with securing and maintaining it, if you’re willing to deal with downtime when something inevitably breaks, if you’re willing to deal with lost data or also maintaining a backup solution, if… a dozen other things that most people don’t want to deal with.

It’s a bit of a confusing situation. Spotify pays the labels for the rights, but also has to pay the artists? Do the artists not get money from the labels for the money they got from seeling their songs? Do artists that own their own songs get a larger cut from Spotify?

And yeah 56mil is nothing to a business like this, I’m surprised it’s not more profitable with all the subscriptions and ad money. It’s like THE platform for music nowadays.

If there’s one lesson we should have all learned by now, it’s that it really sucks to depend on the whims of some corporation for software you use often. They all go bad inevitably.

I also switched from obsidian to logseq and I really like it so far, I just wish it had a better smarter search. People recommend queries but they are annoying and clunky to use when you just want to quickly look something up.

Yeah but Google won, they became the biggest and now can do whatever they want. Unless Mozilla gets close (and I dont think they ever will, even remotely), I dont think they’re in the same situation. Until then I kinda just root for them to survive and exist as competition, even if they have such a small market share compared to google.

I am a bit cynical about it as well, but on the other hand mozilla’s entire shtick and what’s keeping them alive is their privacy oriented, anti-google approach. If they enter the fediverse they’d probably stick to these principles since they are the only reason why you’d want to go with them over the competitors in the first place, right? So it could be a good thing maybe.

If a glorified autocomplete algorithm can write more informative and concise commit messages than you, the actual author behind the code, I think you need to sit down and think long and hard what that actually implies.

Knowing that there’s reasonable and friendly people like you on mastodon will surely help with the adoption

Also obscurity, practically none of the content creators or companies I followed on Twitter have moved to Mastodon and getting news from them was the only purpose of that site in the first place (for me).

OP’s thread is about american politics being everywhere, if you read a sentence beyond the title. I did not change the subject from that.

I guess we have different definitions of curation. To me that’s a way of filtering out stuff so only what is of interest remains. To you apparently curating means not using the platform at all, and replacing it with a different platform that will just have the same issue again.

Also, me using lemmy as a news source is not changing the goal post, it is asking for specifics on how to implement your proposed solution. If you say that getting US-centric content is a user issue because they are lazy to curate, and then I ask you how to actually apply that in practice, that’s still the same discussion.

So maybe to simplify and go back to the original subject. You say generic big communities are bad and you block them to avoid what OP is complaining about and this is a solution that all non-lazy people should do. Can you recommend some communities here that can provide similar content to the big generic (worldnews/tech/politics/entertainment) communities that don’t have US centric content or bias instead? Or are you saying something else altogether and you don’t have a solution for the problem and I misunderstood again?

It sounds to me like you are now moving the goalpost from ‘don’t be lazy, curate communities on lemmy’ to ‘block everything and go somewhere else for news’. Even if I do that, which is not what you initially said that can be done if I stop being lazy… What guarantee is there that other news outlets won’t be US centric / biased?

If I just block all (world)news communities with american politics I’m just going to end up not getting any news at all. I care about stuff like tech news for example but some of the recent articles there are “U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Sues Tesla over Racial Abuse of Black Workers” or “The NYPD is deploying a 420-pound robocop to roam Times Square’s subway station”.

The implication you made was that if I stop being lazy I can curate american politics out of my feed. If your answer is to just block all news sources from my feed than that’s not a solution at all.

The thread and OP are talking about specifically too much American politics and news, not all politics and news. How do I “stop being lazy” and specifically curate American politics out of my feed?

How do I curate American politics out of my communities? Genuinely wondering.