I’ve been using Gnome for multiple years now and I don’t plan on switching. Also love GOA in general for the simplicity and ease of use.
However
I wish there was a generic WebDAV/caldav account type. I know you can integrate those using evolution, but why the extra steps? It seems like such a no-brainer considering there is already Nextcloud integration in place.
You can deactivate this text in the settings. I did the same because the German translation has the same issue.
Linux ist mostly used for servers, where you rarely need/have a graphical environment. A big part of development is making sure to keep the kernel safe and prevent endangering critical infrastructure.
That said, I agree if Linux is to be adopted more widely as a desktop system, good graphical UI is crucial. It’s just not the focus of most Linux devs.
Portage is great, I loved the fact that you can have slots with different versions of the same package. Nowadays I’m on Debian Stable. I just don’t have the time anymore.
I’m still trying to make it work for me, because I like the idea in theory. But no matter what I give likes to, I mostly get garbage in my recommendations. And the rare article that’s interesting is usually paywalled.
If you sort by “active” there should be posts with more comments. The “hot” sorting is not really representative for how active users on lemmy are, since it favours younger posts over older posts with lots of comments. You can read the details of the reasoning here .
Thanks for making me aware of c/worldbuilding! It’s nice to see more niche communities growing.
I hope you get better soon!
I never really understood it myself. But from what I’ve heard from people who are (or rather were) regular Twitter users, they like to follow celebrities or specific journalists (people who have actual interesting things to say). Those people are often not on Mastodon, though.
I think you make a great point. It’s easier to make an echo chamber in Mastodon/Twitter, since you mostly encounter people you already know (or are connected to via someone you know).
Not that echo chambers are impossible on platforms like Lemmy or Reddit, but I feel like the format of Twitter/Mastodon especially encourages it.
“Add toggle in settings to hide descriptions in navbar”
YES, as someone who uses the German version of Jerboa, I was waiting for this!
Maybe they were testing the waters first. Now that there is backlash, it was a “bug”.
Does anybody know what happens to posts/comments belonging to the deleted account?
I used Jabber + Pidgin + OTR plugin for quite a while, also hosted my own Prosody server. But I never perceived it as a mainstream thing. Most people I knew used ICQ.
I wonder how deletion of user data is supposed to work in that regard. Since everything is synced to all federated instances, I guess one would have to file a request for deletion with every instance separately (?)
I have separate accounts for Lemmy and Pixelfed/Mastodon. Their content is so different, that it’s hard to find a unified way of interacting with it (following accounts vs. subscribing to and interacting within communities).
If you still prefer to combine both, you could make an account on kbin.social. With that you can follow both Mastodon and Lemmy content and get a “unified” UI. I cannot say how well it works though, since I haven’t tried it myself.
Cool, I hope this gets mass adopted, so that I can replace my RSS reader with my Mastodon account.