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/r/StarTrek founder and primary steward from 2008-2021

Currently on the board of directors for StarTrek.website

  • Is this using ActivityPub? I notice that the lead dev shares a username with a lemmy.world admin.

    EDIT: yes it is I missed that it is already federated with Lemmy instances

  • I know this is a joke but "Enshittification" requires there to be a monopoly that abuses commercial customers along with users. Linux distros can't really have monopolies since the switching costs are so low.

  • It seems like we agree on the facts, and I certainly won't disagree that it's worse now, but I would characterize Twitter's (pre-Musk) response to extremism as "measured, lacking and lethargic", before I would use "imperfect", which still implies "pretty good" and from my perceptive it was not good enough to make me want to use it. I think maybe we just have a different tolerance for hate speech.

  • They absolutely were, without question. That said, there's nothing this guy can do to make that happen on Mastodon instances he doesn't own.

  • You're correct. ActivityPub is an open protocol and Meta, or more importantly anyone else, can use it however they want.

  • How so?

  • While TrueNAS is great I found it to be significantly more NAS-oriented than a general "home server". It's certainly capable just very into the weeds with permissions, users, groups, etc. It's not very noob friendly. If you aren't primarily dealing with a ton of data, you might want to look into something like CasaOS or Homarr which make sharing data on the network very "set it and forget it" and are more focused on apps.

    Also recommendations include PiHole, Immich, Qbittorrent, Plex (or Jellyfin) obviously, SyncThing, Duplicati, Home Assistant (although you probably want to run that in a VM) and Tailscale and NGINX proxy manager for accessing outside the house.

  • This public issue on the nut.js repo, where I'm publicly accused of something that's entirely not true was the final nail in the coffin.

    Damn FOSS geeks, they ruin FOSS!

  • it’s always some people who used some ancient client in 2008 and never bothered to try again.

    The biggest hurdle for widespread adoption of open platforms, imo.

  • I would be surprised if this ever sees a physical release, or even gets past the "concept render" phase.

  • I meant links to instances not owned by the main company. Are there any?

  • Do you have any links? I was unable to find any. Also if you don't mind, what is the benefit to running one's own BlueSky instance when instance owners don't control the moderation?

  • LOL this is the answer. For better or worse, the Fediverse has a large established culture. I would not fault someone for trying out every possible alternative first.

  • "Add-ons" is a separate category of thing, and more substantial than integrations/Lovelace stuff. If you haven't noticed any missing you're probably fine. But some popular ones are DuckDNS and Mosquitto Broker.

  • You can't restore a backed-up config in docker, also no add-ons.

  • They are very noisy. Lots of clicking and whirring. Enterprise drives are not the same as consumer drives. As others have said this is a great price but I would not recommend using them in a room you are trying to focus in.

  • They generate a LOT of noise. Not a dealbreaker for most but something to be aware of for sure.

  • but what are they expecting the server admins to do after moving off Discord when Nintendo’s lawyers send them a letter

    ...Not... kick them out? Discord doesn't kick out extremist groups. This seems comparatively mild. I think they had a reasonable expectation to be left alone. Nintendo got a court injunction but Discord didn't fight it.

  • Cory Doctorow is uniquely able to cut straight to the heart of the matter. He is the same person who coined the term "enshittification" last year.