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I’ve just tried it, and although the idea is interesting it doesn’t seem to be working as intended.

I’m pretty sure all of these are FOSS, and thy were tagged as proprietary:

• AnkiDroid
• Moonlight
• KDE Connect
• KeePassDX
• Lichess
• MPV

And these are also FOSS but were flagged as ‘Unknown’:

• MGit
• NetworkTools
• Simple Audio Converter
• Termux
• Yet Another Call Blocker

And there are others I’m not entirely sure if theyre FOSS or hybrid, that were also flagged as proprietary.

Also not a fan of needing to subscribe to give feedback (like pointing out FOSS alternatives or false positives).

I believe it’s a mix. Both ‘nostalgia goggles’ and straight up facts.

What I mean is that, when we were kids or teenagers we didn’t see things the same way our parents did. They were the ones struggling, and we were pretty much just playing around and complaining of mundane stuff. So it’s hard to tell how much ‘easier’ life was back then… we were just young.

But at the same time I do completely agree that the advancement of technology and growth of USA giant corporations really fucked a lot of things up badly. While back in the day we couldn’t find answers or information to everything so easily, we lived a more ‘natural’ life, where everyone actually expected things to take a while to happen: you had to wake up, literally read the news if you wanted, take the car or bus to the job, and just then you started working, and while working you had to do some research and so on.

Nowadays things either happen immediately or you’re tagged as lazy or something like it. You wake up with a lot of e-mails or message notifications on your smartphone, and people expect you to answer these demands ASAP. It’s not expected anymore that we do each thing in it’s own time anymore, and the volume of work is much bigger because you’re expected to solve problems much faster. This volume of demand and unrealistic expectations definitely generate stress and anxiety, which are huge health issues nowadays.

And the fact that we now realize, thanks to the amount and speed of information we have today, how the industry leads are fucking everyone up without consequences doesn’t help in the slightest, since it leads to a feeling of being powerless and exploited.

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If I had to guess, most of these ‘books’ are some kink bullshit. Ever since I looked for the rankings in the Kindle section, it was flooded by books with men or women stripping on the cover and some random erotic titles. Among them some rare exceptions (and most of these were some cheap self-help stuff).

That being said, I wouldn’t be surprised this is what’s being actually affected. I can’t see the actual data or content of the article though, because it requires me to subscribe and I definitely won’t.

Exactly what I wonder. I have a list of 110 (and growing) books I want to read, all of them written by human beings, and I discover something new all the time. There’s no way I will buy a random book on Amazon, be it from AI or by some author I’ve never heard anything about.

To be fair, people need to set their priorities straight. Even though these are marketed as ‘gaming’ hardware, are they actually?

I have an RTX 4060 8GB VRAM that seems to have people hating all over it, but I don’t see the point, currently, to buy another GPU. It runs smoothly enough every single game I’ve attempted to run it, including stuff like Alan Wake 2. There’s also the fact that most AAA games that demand a strong hardware are barely worth playing.

But as long as ‘gamers’ keep fixating on the idea that gaming can only be enjoyable when they own the best hardware to run things on 4k, 120fps, almost zero input delay, and whatever the fuck else the market sells as essential for a ‘true gaming experience’, that’s what you get: extremely overpriced hardware, that will never feel enough.

Not sure if I understand the thread, but it seems to me it was trying to find out how many people actually reply to posts on Lemmy, rather than just reacting or seeing and ignoring them. And what it seems to find out, is that Lemmy is actually very active. According to it, the median community replies to 74% of all posts, which doesn’t look bad at all imo.

It also seems to compare the numbers to Farcaster, and concludes that Lemmy’s lack of rigged algorithms, focused on chronological feed, creates more active communities with higher visibility and replies. It also seems to conclude that the chosen server heavily impacts the response rate (Lemmy.world with 93% of active threads, compared to 56% on Lemmy.zip).

The biggest problem though, is that it compares Lemmy to Farcaster, which are completely different platforms. Farcaster is a microblog like X / Mastodon / Bluesky, that, by design, is a whole different beast, and also way too niche. Without comparing it directly to Reddit or other comparable social networks, I don’t think it actually means anything that useful (at least not in a comparison).

Also, the data is too short (1 day, 50 posts each community) to draw conclusions, which makes it fundamentally flawed. If the data was extended for an entire week or a month, and done in different times of the day (considering that time zone matters), the conclusions could have been much more interesting.

I think people tend to be naive about Steam.

I mean, I DO think that Steam is miles better than Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo/Epic and I would say they’re probably one of the biggest responsibles to make Linux that much more popular (both for consumer and for devs) in the latest years.

But I don’t know what’s gonna happen to Steam after Gabe Newell leaves. I think there’s a huge risk for a dramatic shift in Valve / Steam monetization and culture. Things are fine now, but that’s still a corporation, and shareholders will want to get the last drop out of it just as these shitheads do to everything else.

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Do they want to make the switch? If they don’t, they won’t.

You can’t force or convince the mainstream to get to the Fediverse when pretty much all of their connections are on the mainstream network.

That’s why I think Lemmy/Piefed are the ones that have the biggest chance of sticking, because they’re aimed to a public that’s not necessarily mainstream.

I know they exist and I totally respect it, but I’m not even sure if it makes much of a sense an Instagram/TikTok alternative on the Fediverse, considering these social media are aimed around getting visibility either by personal relationship or by popularity (volume over quality). And I don’t think that the Fediverse public as of now is looking to become that.

Who would have thought that Stremio, after adding paid subscription, would not just not improve but actually get worse. That’s shocking.