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There is a Mastodon frontend with a Tinder-like interface: https://apps.apple.com/de/app/fedimatch/id6503460577

+1 to ZorinOS recommendation.

It’s beautiful, and has a lot of “oh, you came from Windows” user interactions. Like how it recommends similar programs from the store if you run a Windows installer, or installs and configures wine if you still want to run the .exe.

I use it myself even as an “older” Linux user.

Perfectly balanced, as everything should be

I feel there are a lot of philosophical and practical similarities between the FediVerse and the open source operating system world. That’s why a lot of people tend to be on both.

The thing about the FediVerse is that you are the only responsible for your feed. Try looking for different content, different people, or different instances, to find more content that resonates more with you and follow those accounts and communities.

Just tagging @notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com

I’m like that right now waiting for the Winter heat to leave

decimeter is a good measure because one cubic decimeter (1 dm³) equals one liter ( 1L )

Truthy

Yes

They have some discount for open source, students and other things. You can send them an email and explain your situation, you’ll never know…

Here’s a tip for you: their beta version (EAP) is always free, but not available all the time, if you’re fine with some plugins not working

I’ve made the move a few years ago. I really like the “IDE” experience instead of the “code editor” one.

“Oh, but it takes so much RAM”, yup… So does all those electron apps I have to use alongside VSCode, that are built in webstorm…

By the way. There’s a mastodon bot called “Inspirational Skeletor” that I find very amusing to follow: https://mas.to/@skeletor

Pixelfed has a “stories” feature. It’s only on the website version (no apps) and it’s labeled as “beta”.

I’ve just tested it. You just need to tag the community in the text of your Pixelfed post.

See here: https://pixelfed.social/i/web/post/587303441777627505 and here: https://bolha.forum/post/15364

For a Facebook-like interaction, the major ones I saw people talking was Friendica and mobilizon

For YouTube, the most known is PeerTube

No. Lemmy (and any other FediVerse service) can be targeted for take over from any corporation. But there’s a few things that prevents from thinks like… Idk, Facebook buying Instagram or Musk buying Twitter:

1. The source code of Lemmy is open. Anyone can just take the code and create another “Lemmy alternative” in case of a buy out.
2. The underlying protocol (Activity Pub) is open too, and managed by W3C (which manages other things like the HTTP protocol). So I think would be very hard for it to highjack to only work for one company.
3. You are right, a company can create or buy an instance or another similar service (and probably will, see Threads from Instagram). But they cannot interfere with the other ones. If the instance you’re in was bought and you don’t like the new owners, you can just create another account in another instance and keep following the same communities and content (because of the protocol I mentioned) and having the same experience. Unlike what happened to closed services like reddit that you cannot follow subreddits from here.

Tl;Dr: we are not free of corporate interest, but we have tools to prevent a corporate dominance.

You know, I’ve seen worse than hate here. I’ve seen apathy.