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    Proposal to create a collective to own the topic-based Lemmy instances

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  • Why?! The whole point of federation is to let people join communities even when they don't have an account in the same server.

    For people who've used lemmy or the rest of the fediverse yes, but most people don't know that yet. If someone shares a post from your site with their friends or a facebook group, they're not going to look into how lemmy works to sign up elsewhere.

    1. people that are looking for a community in a niche interest, do not find it, and go back to Reddit.
    2. people that are in a big instance and create (or sometimes, recreate) a community for a popular topic. This happens quite often and not because they were not satisfied with the existing communities, but just because they could not find them.

    The idea of having topic-specific instances is an attempt to mitigate issue #2.

    I'd prefer it if topic specific instances were more popular too. I just think that letting people making accounts tied to their favorite topics would get more people interested in joining them.

    I feel a technical solution like federation pulling in lists of communities with would help more with discoverability.

    Not my experience. A few examples:

    • No one complained about the mods from !linux@lemmy.ml, yet I've witnessed endless discussions about moving away from lemmy.ml.

    I'm not sure how that goes against what I said. That's mostly people disliking the admins.

    • Beehaw defederated from LW, so this forced users of these instances to "choose" between the communities and/or create accounts on both of them if they wanted to keep following the whole conversation.

    Similar issues could happen even if users are separate from the communities. Beehaw could defederate your instances, and lemmy world could defederate programming dev or something, and people would need other accounts if they want to see everything.

    • Personally, I do not want to join or participate extensively in communities that are on LW if we have a topic-specific instance for it. I know that I am not the only one.

    Me too. I usually avoid lemmy world communities unless there isn't an active community elsewhere.

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  • New users to lemmy usually aren't going to join communities if they can't register there. And people who are really invested in a topic will want to have that domain for their account. You're cutting off a lot of the users that would grow your communities.

    I don't mind the idea of a collective to handle a bunch of instances, but I feel like you're going about it the wrong way. When the same person make a bunch of instances about a variety of topics, it looks as if they aren't that invested in any specific community. From my experience, the most active communities start off with a few people who care almost obsessively about that topic.

    Also the idea that communities can be 'neutral ground' doesn't make sense to me. People will leave or join based on how the admins and mods run them, whether or not the users are hosted there. In some situations it might work out fine, but if anyone thinks it's caused by how you're running your sites, they may defederate from the whole collection.

  • GIMP 3.0 Enters String Freeze, Inching Closer To Release

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  • The biggest thing is probably non-destructive editing, so you can do stuff like apply filters without them changing the underlying image. Gtk3 should add better support for tablets and wayland. There's also better layer tools and font support. A lot of it was on the backend, which should eventually allow for using other color spaces like cmyk natively.

  • GIMP 3.0 Enters String Freeze, Inching Closer To Release

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  • It's too bad that GLIMPSE fork never took off.

  • GIMP 3.0 Enters String Freeze, Inching Closer To Release

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  • They've been working on porting it since back in 2012, and didn't want to redo a bunch of the porting work before they even released it.

  • Looking for a CLI Viewer for Lemmy

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  • I created a simple Creative Commons sites index with high hopes.

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  • If you're looking for more sources for your site, Wikimedia Commons has a page with lists of sources for freely licensed media, sorted by content type. The photography list in particular is really long, and sorted into categories.

  • Can whales eat humans?

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  • Cladistically dolphins are a type of toothed whale. They're more closely related to species like sperm whales than toothed whales and baleen whales are to each other.

  • Word to replace "weird" when used in a positive context

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  • It usually implies it's weird in an old-fasioned way though.

  • End of an era: Nova Launcher's parent company lays off practically everyone

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  • I've had it freeze up on me several times, where I had to reset the app to get it working again. It works most of the time, but I wouldn't recommend it yet for general use.

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    Best android app suggestions?

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  • Hacker's Keyboard hasn't had a real release in about 5 years, so it can be slightly buggy.

    Unexpected Keyboard is pretty good. It's got the complete keyboard layout available including stuff like Control and Function keys, so I think it's an acceptable replacement. It uses swipes to type other keys, which I'm not sure if I prefer, but it works well enough. I set the swipe distance higher because I would accidentally swipe from time to time.

  • What web browser extensions would you highly recommend to others?

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  • If you check "I'm an advanced user" in the settings, then hit the "More" button in the dropdown a few times it'll show the more advanced interface that lets you choose which third party domains to allow. It doesn't work quite the same since it blocks both content and scripts per site, but I find it good enough for my usage.

    edit: You can technically block just scripts per 3rd party site, but it involves manually editing the content type for your rules in the settings. It's not part of the main interface, so I never bother using it.

  • Google's reCAPTCHAv2 is just labor exploitation, boffins say • The Register

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  • is there is any easy way to watch Public Domain/ Creative Commons movies?

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  • There's a lot on PeerTube. You can search on sepiasearch.org and filter the results by license. fedi.video has a bunch of uploaded PD/CC videos.

  • Hey Ya'll!

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  • GoToSocial is designed for small / single user instances. There's more with similar goals like snac, seppo, pub, ktistec, tapir, shuttlecraft, activities.next, and microblog.pub, but I haven't really looked into them so I'm not sure on the status of each. There's a nice list of activitypub software at delightful fediverse apps if you want to look at more options.

  • Google’s greenhouse gas emissions jump 48% in five years

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  • There's nothing quite perfect, so I still use ddg the most often. They do pull in most of their results from bing, but they also have their own crawler and use a bunch of other search engines as sources. At least they only send the search query to microsoft, so it's better for privacy than searching directly on google or bing.

    SearXNG is an open source meta search engine that compiles results from other search engines.

    Marginalia and Clew are a couple of open source search engines that focus on only indexing smaller, independent, or non-commercial sites.

    A lot of sites have their own search engines built in, so I'll often search directly on sites like Wikipedia or Lemmy.

    There's a good overview of various search engines in this blog post.

  • Have you gone down any rabbit holes that gave you an existential crisis?

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  • Most philosophers think free will and determinism are compatible.

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  • The creator of pixelfed is working on a tiktok alternative loops, although for now it's in private beta.

    For a starting point that is available now, you could look at Pixeldroid, an open source pixelfed app.

  • What are your favourite PeerTube channels??

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  • Besides the ones already mentioned:

    A couple of gaming related accounts/channels: