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ada , 1 month ago to Linux in Opinions on KDE Plasma 6

Like 3/4 of programs will never remember their size and position, so you have to make a never ending list of kwin window rules, which then end up affecting other windows you don’t want to

That's Wayland specific isn't it? X11 behaves a lot better in that regard

ada Mod , 1 month ago to Asklemmy in What is your little slice of the internet that you own/maintain?

blahaj.zone, lemmy.blahaj.zone and chat.blahaj.zone

ada , 1 month ago to Ask Lemmy in Why do people say 'queer folk' instead of 'queer people'?

It was never really a thing in my experience.

ada , 1 month ago to Ask Lemmy in Why do people say 'queer folk' instead of 'queer people'?

Folk is a gender neutral alternative to guys/girls etc. It's used where you might use a term like that, not where you'd use "people"

ada , 2 months ago to Linux in I found a beautiful alternative to MusicBee (audio manager & player)!

So so close, but it doesn't import my ratings and play counts through arsenic, only the raw music, which means none of my playlists will work

ada , 2 months ago to Linux in GNU nano 8.0 Released with New Options and Various Improvements

I'm a little bit excited by that

ada , 2 months ago to Linux in I found a beautiful alternative to MusicBee (audio manager & player)!

Now, if you tell me it's subsonic compatible and I can use that smartlist feature with subsonic music as a source, I'll have found my new music player :)

ada , 2 months ago to Linux in I found a beautiful alternative to MusicBee (audio manager & player)!

Does it have smart playlists that can combine other playlists?

ada Mod , 2 months ago to Asklemmy in Why do non-psychologists talk so much about Freud?

Thesis envy

ada , 2 months ago to RPGMemes in "The fireball, an old classic. Excellent execution on that lob."

Sounds like the Blood Bowl commentator team

ada , 3 months ago to 196 in WE NEED MODS: IF YOU WANT IT, COME GET IT

Any 196 mods, new or old that are on Matrix, please let me know. We have a matrix mod bot that will help deal with spam attacks that we can set you up with.

ada Mod , 3 months ago to Asklemmy in What is the most inspirational thing you saw or heard that changed your life?

"The first thing that jumps to your mind isn't always what you truly think. Sometimes, it's just what you've been trained to think. What matters, is what you do next"

I grew up in a really racist, queerphobic environment, and that comment really helped me by letting me give myself space to undo the bigoted indoctrination I had been taught, without getting trapped in guilt and self disgust whenever one of the racist or bigoted things I was raised with jumped in to my mind.

It let me recognise the bigoted thought as something I was trained to think, rather than being what I actually believe, and by recognising it, I could disempower the thought, and start to unlearn it

ada , 4 months ago to Fediverse in Diagon Lemmy - A Harry Potter-themed Lemmy Server is now live (before you block me instantly, please hear me out)

The responses in this thread highlight my point. If you don't have explicit rules to stop that shit in its tracks (which you don't), you aren't queer friendly, because queer folk can't exist there without being told that transphobia is fine actually, as long as you like the person doing it.

ada , 4 months ago to Fediverse in I love Mastodon and ActivityPub. But I think Nostr is going to win. Here's why.

In Nostr, each relay can set its own policies. Relays can and do establish policies for acceptable behaviours.

Sure, but it's still each relay admin playing whack a mole with bigots as they pop up with new accounts.

On AP, because identities are tied to instances, the instance admin can kick the bigot and they're gone for everyone, before many folk ever see it. And if there is an instance with admins that don't deal with bigots, the admins can defederate from the entire instance.

Nostr doesn't give you any of those options. An instance is just a generic relay. No community, no differentiation, no protection for vulnerable folk. Which is fine if your goal is "free speech" but not so good if you're a member of a vulnerable minority just trying to connect with people/communities without having to be super on guard.

I left twitter to get away from an environment like that. I'm not going to head back to a federated version of the same thing

The fact is, hosting online discussion forums gets costly quickly, especially if you want them to be reliable.

Absolutely. I admin several AP instances, including the one I'm posting from now. We have crowd funding to help, but we are still out of pocket running it, but that's fine, because the reason we run it is for the whole community aspect I've been talking about.

I have zero interest in paying out of pocket to run a generic relay that will probably end up being used by the very people I'm trying to avoid.

ada , 4 months ago to Fediverse in I love Mastodon and ActivityPub. But I think Nostr is going to win. Here's why.

In mastodon, your instance can stop you from seeing content from other instances and ban users from other instances. While this moderation might be nice sometimes, I’d rather it be opt-in than mandatory. Nostr relays don’t have this power. Likewise, Mastodon instances can stop their followers from following you. Nostr doesn’t allow this.

This is exactly why I won't use Nostr. What you're describing here isn't ideal for many folk that are part of marginalised groups. When each individual has to individually block every bigot only after being exposed to their bigotry, then the vulnerable folk don't hang around. This is doubly the case when there is nothing stopping the bigots from just creating another account after burning their first one.

One question that fediverse needs to solve is: how are we going to fund hosting costs for instances and more broadly, development?

This is also something that activitypub communities do better, because they are communities not relays.