I consider Lemmy to be more pseudonymous. Which is to say, I am practically anonymous to most users, but it wouldn’t take much for someone with resources to pester my instance into giving up my IP.

The content of my posts, comments, and votes is intentionally public information.

I find you still have to fuss with partitions. There isn’t a simple wipe everything and install option. You have to manually select the partitions on the disk, delete them and create a new one which somehow triggers it to create several partitions.

There is an upgrade option.

And then they tell you they don’t want a Microsoft account and you have to look up what’s the current hack to get around that if possible.

What’s the difference?

To be fair, Windows wasn’t meant to be installed by the end user that often. It comes preinstalled.

I don’t need friends that are Windows users.

I find it freeing. It places limits on the responsibilities of a mortal.

Chowning the libs.

They do, and cry out for their friends, in Last of Us.

Don’t dogs identify individuals mostly based on smell? Would you have a smell-name?

Can’t we just ignore court orders now?

I saw some of his work in person once. A real treat.

It’s always a good idea to check out your instance policies. Mine blocks porn, for example. It’s a very important lens through which you will view the network.

It wouldn’t make a lot of sense to register for an instance that has very different beliefs from your own, unless that’s expressly what you want for educational purposes.

Maybe we do want a minimum barrier to entry that involves the slightest amount of patience and forethought.

Maybe just maybe a link aggregator and discussion platform doesn’t need to make money. Maybe it can just be good and make the users happy.

A democracy, if you can keep it, in a sense. Lemmy is healthy. Time will tell if the idea works, but I think it is a huge advantage tearing away corporate ownership and really investing in a platform that is owned by its users.

Onboarding process is definitely smoother, and we fixed a lot of the Federation bugs. Usability is an all-time high. I don’t know what the critical mass is, but we are definitely gaming momentum.

The software is arrogant and needs to know its place. It serves the user. It should obey.

Our computer.

This article reads like an advertisement to me. The bones are good, but of course you’re never going to stop a motivated threat actor, and soft homogeny has always been bad in the same way that monoculture farming is vulnerable.

Yet another reason why users should block ads by default. It’s a security risk.