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  • You don't have opposable thumbs, you ain't pulling shit

  • Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb?
  • This clearly goes against the intention of the GPL.

    That I agree with. Maybe this will cause the FSF to create a 4th version.

  • Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb?
  • I use Fedora, but I'm very uneasy with the fact that they are married to Red Hat. If things go south for Fedora, I hope a community driven fork can survive if not Fedora itself.

  • Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb?
  • It's free software, so you should be free to do with the code whatever you want as long as you don't restrict the freedom of others.

  • Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb?
  • Serious concern and asshole move? Yes. Gpl violation? Not sure. You could argue you are not restricted to do whatever you want with the code you receive with a subscription. But if you share the code, they don't want you as a customer anymore and won't give you new code. I don't know if the GPL allows that.

  • Dear Red Hat: Are you dumb?
  • Certainly in retrospect. Back then they defended the decision by saying they wanted to shift their resources to centos stream, and that would be fair enough. But now it's clear that wasn't their motivation at all. They wanted to kill the free RHEL fork in the hope to attract more customers, as a lot of people already suspected.

  • YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
  • The other thing to consider is that the technology just doesn’t exist for there to be a viable ‘federated’ YouTube.

    Well, Peertube exists. But I agree it is very hard to get close to the amount of videos YouTube hosts without it becoming too expensive. But that is even true for companies like Google, which is why they are pushing these changes. It seems like people need to accept that a video platform must either show ads, make you subscribe, or receive substantial donations.

    I almost can't believe Wikipedia is only 20GB btw. Does that include all the pictures on there?

  • YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
  • Youtube most likely never made any money. Hosting these vast amounts of video is expensive. Google stopped telling us how much they money youtube made them lose. You would think they would start bragging when they could make a profit off of it.

    That being said, this still sucks of course.

  • thanks spez
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  • thanks spez
  • Crazy, that should be an uncontroversial statement. It's sad that people on the left have radicalized too and are sometimes going too far, giving the right a larger attack surface. Of course regular algorithm driven social media stimulate radicalization because rage drives up engagement.

  • thanks spez
  • What caused the Digg exodus?

  • What distro(s) do you use?
  • Even just using plasma I stead of gnome feels a little weird now, like it’s too windows-y lol

    Out of the box it is, but KDE is very customizable, much more than Windows. You can make it behave like almost any other desktop environment.

  • Feature request: combining feeds of similar communities
  • Something like the multireddit function then, maybe? Custom feeds where you can add any communities that you want (doesn’t even have to be the same topic).

    I don’t think it makes sense to combine the feeds at a federation level (which I think is what you’re talking about, but correct me if I’m wrong).

    No I was thinking about a client side solution. I don't even know what multireddit is but it sounds like that is what I meant. Though since MentallyExhausted@reddthat.com mentioned it, syncing of communities between instances could also be a cool idea.

  • Migrating accounts to other servers
  • That will make you lose your post and comment history though.

  • Feature request: combining feeds of similar communities
  • I'm not a programmer and have very limited Github experience, but I'll have a look.

  • Feature request: combining feeds of similar communities
  • This is a very long-winded way to say, I think the solution to your problem is just joining both communities, and you’ll see both in your feed as a result.

    Sure, but all communities of all kinds of topics are in my feed. A way to organize by topic would be nice.

  • Feature request: combining feeds of similar communities

    I've been on Lemmy for 10 days now and I really enjoy it. The federation is really cool, but compared to Reddit it does have a downside: fragmentation of communities.

    I think it would be really cool to be able to combine the feeds of the community Random_topic@example_instance_1 with Random_topic@example_instance_2 etc.

    This could work well for reading, but I realize that posting is more difficult. So when posting you should be able to choose on what instance you want to post to the Random_topic 'community group'.

    What do you think?

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    Problem reaching Lemmy.world communities
  • https://lemmy.ml/comment/524912

    Thanks, I had no idea. I did try the search function but I didn’t use the “!”, so that was probably the problem.

  • Problem reaching Lemmy.world communities
  • I don't know, this is a very consistent problem for me.

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    Problem reaching Lemmy.world communities

    Hi, for some reason I can't reach Lemmy world communities through lemmy.ml even though the instances seem to be connected.

    Lemmy.ml/c/vegan@lemmy.world gives me a 404 error while Lemmy.ml/c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world works fine.

    Any idea why this might be?

    Edit: Solved ✅ by @PorkrollPosadist:

    https://lemmy.ml/comment/524912

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    How is Lemmy going to make money?
  • Maybe get funding from the European Commission or https://nlnet.nl/

    They do get funding from NLNet

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