I will take Cinny any day over Discord. I just wish the matrix protocol was more reliable since sometimes there are issues with joining rooms and you cant always see the messages in the encrypted group chat.

I have had lots of meme ideas, some even made it into production, before ultimately deciding to shelve it because it was on a topic that wouldn't have been very welcome.

Like a meme on Amazon being late yet again (if I were to order from Amazon, not saying I do! ) or something. Or a meme on how sometimes I use AI and it's actually helpful (Again, not saying I do! (I want my threadilawyer)) LMAO

I'd imagine gatekeeping based on a percentage of FOSS used isn't going to win many hearts and minds in the long run for our communities. Imagine if the Linux community decried using the Steam Store on FOSS operating systems.

If the tool is best for the job, people will use it. Our role is to make FOSS that tool in each category.

It can catch you off-guard with how some people can react towards a certain topic. I would be in big trouble if I said I think self-hosting is a lot of work. Then there's users from instances with unique rules enforcing them in neutral spaces. I was told by a Reddthat user to not post too many articles at a time. They have a 5 article limit rule per community a day.

Cool if I quote you in my email to Linus torvalds and the pope?

I think self-hosting is a lot of work

~@maam@feddit.uk

I had some dickhead coming at me the other day on Lemmy for not having completely erased Facebook from my life. As though that's a remotely reasonable thing to expect everyone to do.

It's not like making a personal decision not to use Amazon or to install Linux. It's a social network. It's literally not possible to make the decision unilaterally, unless you want to cut yourself off from people you care about IRL and from real political organising.

no but fr. we need a better alternate than the matrix and XMPP protocol, theyre both too buggy. I use them but fuck its annoying sometimes

It does seem like XMPP has their fans

Meh, block and move on, I use Discord to game with friends, we have used a Mumble server in the past, but Discord was just easier and had a better chat.

Though I will absolutely admit that I am missing the sound quality of Mumble

Yeah I love Lemmy and I love that people aren't afraid to be extreme on here but sometimes it's exhausting that it's just so omnipresent. It's like there's a whole lifestyle associated with Lemmy. And some people really take it too far. I think there's a balance to be struck between being full of normies vs being all extreme all the time.

I deleted my Facebook account when they said they were going to stop fact checking. I just made a post telling anyone who wanted to stay in touch to text me, gave them a week, then deleted the account. I've also been more politically active since leaving Facebook than I ever was before, as most major movements these days are using email mailing lists instead of social media groups.

I'm not going to say you have to delete Facebook or anything, but like, this sounds more like excuses than anything else to me. I have friends who still have Facebook who only keep it purely because they originally signed up for various apps and shit using their facebook account, and so they don't want to lose access to those things if they delete the Facebook account, and they are honest about it. I don't see them going around telling people like me that it is unreasonable to delete your Facebook account.

Also, it is 100% a personal decision to not use social media. You do not Need to be on social media. You don't need to be here, or on Instagram, or Bluesky, or anywhere else. You Do need real life connections and interactions. If you don't want to give up Facebook, fine, but don't act like it is an impossibility to make that choice, just don't make excuses man.

I'm sorry but... what is FOSS? I'm new here.

If Facebook is so central to your life... Not sure what to tell you. I got banned from FB for posting that fake nude of trump and it's the biggest favor they did me. So glad to be away from that garbage fire.

FOSS = Free and Open Source Software. Open source means the source code of a program is available for anyone to view, and free (as in freedom) means the community can contribute to it (this is an oversimplification). FOSS software, like Lemmy, is not owned by a company and as such the software is (usually) developed for the benefit of everything rather than for maximum profit.

Yeah I found it weird to read that the thing I gave up and feel better for being rid of is not possible to give up

Free open source software

The future! (for nerds only)

Obviously a personal choice, so noone should be giving you shit about it, but I moved all the people I want to talk to onto Deltachat/Signal/SMS (in order of my preference), that works perfectly fine and I havn't found someone who is opposed to all of those options.

The principle of copyleft is that you can't encourage a free environment without some level of militantism. If you accept user hostile software like Steam alongside copyleft applications, then you're fighting on the side of that hostility, on the side of theft and oppression.

Many newer popular FOSS softwares advocates stronger for libertarianism than collective protection, but it's the strictly libre software that has been the backbone historically.

Users benefit from software, not from other users. Non-FOSS software already exists, and would exist without libre initiatives.

Do you think more users, even if apolitical or incidental will best increase the amount of quality FOSS software being written in the long run, or a smaller but principled and politically motivated user base? Will no-strings free-to-use softwares encourage more new FOSS software or a treasure trove of existing quality libraries that can only be used if you agree to stop oppressing the user?

If we use Valve as a case-study, then they have taken freely available software and created a product out of it. They have contributed back to that software, and because of their contribution Windows-emulation is now better for FOSS users. But they haven't made any of their previous products less oppressive. They created a Linux-product to escape Microsoft's power over them, and their business is charging rent from all game developers. Compared to almost anyone else, they have very little to loose by making their products user respecting and FOSS. They didn't chose to do this. Would they have had, if the work they appropriated to create the Steamdeck software had even more militant terms of use?