Precisely because of what is described in the post.

Omarchy is an Arch-based Linux distribution created by a person with questionable political views. Many in the Linux community will go great lengths to ensure not a single penny of theirs gets into his hands.

I think Lemmy is not at a scale sufficient enough to produce enough original content. I’m okay with tasteful reposting.

We’ll see brighter days indeed!

Well, might go hungry for a while if I need any clothes or whatnot. Trying to juggle side jobs to make it livable, and treat credit card with caution.

Microbiologist, Russia

Zero.

Copyright system barely ever benefits the authors themselves. Instead, it is one of the forces perpetuating the dominance of large businesses, and allowing monopolies and oligopolies to proliferate.

Particularly egregious are patents in the field of technology. We essentially agree to stifle the progress in the name of profits of patent holders - profits they’ll take from us - and it is not alright.

We must keep technology in the public domain for the benefit of society, and we must work on better forms of author compensation.

Honestly it’s not even worth ridiculing, just forget it already

I swear I’ve seen such headline for years now.

China committed to gradually shift from Windows to Linux on government computers. It will certainly take years, assuming it succeeds in the first place.

But still, good news they’re going for it. Hopefully we’ll see the year of Linux on Chinese PCs.

Might be frontend-dependent, but it’s certainly an issue if comments are not filtered the same way.

Otherwise, alright, I see your point!

Honestly, that’s one thing I’ve never ever seen on the Fediverse, while having seen plenty in conventional social media.

It’s fair that some moderation action might be necessary going forward, but I don’t see this problem exist at a current scale.

Doesn’t take much normally. But still, I think Lemmy would surely benefit from adding custom filter lists that users can enable or disable at will.

Came here to say that!

I can’t comprehend why people would join instances in the list. If you don’t like a particular instance, just hop into the user settings and block it! Why let others set your blocklist?

Experimenting with blocklists is fine and how you find your comfort zone on Lemmy.

I once made an experiment in which I blocked lemmy.world - not out of spite, but to just see what the rest of Lemmy has to offer. Turns out, quite much!

Still, too many niche communities are hosted on .world, so here I am again.

Linux folks be like: I don’t have a good enough tool for this niche thing. Guess how my next 1000 hours will be spent? 😄

Seriously though, nice work!

I think that, eventually, we’ll have to resort to networks of trust. Meeting each other offline and confirming this person does indeed exist is one way of severely reducing the influx of bots.

The problem is, it takes a much bigger effort and makes building global networks and new registrations much, much harder. It’ll take a while for the same person to be confirmed in the US and then confirm someone in, say, Philippines.

Damn, fuel is finite

Step 1. Get a lot of money

Step 2. Ignore the laws and get myself a super comfy RTG-powered hidden bunker with a Faraday cage

Step 3. Put my servers in there, take drives full of everything from the outside

Step 4. Live comfortably ever after

Not very clear why Linux foundation would give more funds to blockchain projects than to the Linux kernel itself.

Crypto projects have ways to fund themselves just fine. And as they are commonly negatively seen in the open-source community, this kind of funding from one of the largest bodies in the open-source world raises some eyebrows.

Ubuntu has large corporate interest and is managed by a private company earning dozens of millions of dollars annually. There is a financial interest to be made here.