Indian here. There are a lot of Indians that love tech experimentation and "jugaad", and just the mere act of dailying Linux allows us to step up our IT industry game for zero cost.

Moderator here.

Since there is a loud and collective voice, I will do it, but not all news related to Twitter or Musk can be banned. This is something that you folks need to give me input on. There is going to be a level or kind of essential news that impacts us all, that needs to be allowed to post, and for that we need some agreeable middle ground.

Inputs?

* has been committing since 1948

antizionism isn't antisemitism

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Clap LOUDER for those at the back! This is exactly what my Palestinian friend helped elaborate to me, the single biggest confusion sowed by western Zionist supporting rags into masses.

From my computing guide https://lemmy.ml/post/511377 :

The following software is shared by both Linux and Windows, which will astound you, because the quality of these is the best in their respective categories. There will be a (*) marking for the better one, and (^) if it is FLOSS.

As you might have noticed some patterns and anomalies:

• Most of the winners here are FLOSS and cross platform at the same time, consistently.
• I did not mention the best for Linux file managers
• A few of these do not have ^ which means they are not FLOSS
• XNViewMP and Filelist Creator are rarities in that they are not FLOSS, yet are benevolent pieces of adware/spyware-free software available as cross-platform, and also XNView is the winner of 2 types of software, because it is the ultimate tool for anything to do with images. Nothing comes close, and never has.
• SMART HDD/SSD monitoring tool is an issue on Linux, because free tools cannot do external HDDs for some reason, even though on Windows this is possible. (https://www.smartmontools.org/wiki/SAT-with-UAS-Linux) R-Studio can, but it is extremely expensive and nothing else works from my experience.
• MS Office is the superior tool for office and document work. This is a truth we have to live with.

A large chunk of the core 1% contributor base dropped Reddit.

• I was behind migrating few of the biggest heavyweights, like datahoarder, piracy and so on.
• I also helped cause critical damage to Reddit by being the first official subreddit, privatelife, to have migrated to Lemmy many years ago, and to have voiced against spez and reddit's CIA political agendas in plenty capacity.
• also have been probably the only subreddit to have closed it on Reddit and made Lemmy the only official place for it.
• I have also been one of the few core Lemmy builders during the past 3 years, doing almost everything other than software development.

My privacy community on Reddit had a staggering 12K users with an activity of 100-150 active users all the time. I sacrificed it, and about 1.3K of those moved to Lemmy. It was the only authentic privacy community on reddit, with none to replace it. r/privacy and r/privacyguides are full of bullshitters, donation stealers and harassers.

I for the first time saw a reddit alternative that was not run by right wing nutjobs or was not infested with rightwingers/freezepeachers/nazis/pedos, and had potential to make it the true reddit alternative close to what I imagined. Thanks to OG fellow comrades (you all know who you are), and thanks to the one who told me to go help Lemmy (you da goat), Lemmy is kind of what I wanted it to be. It has a good foundation.

Shortcoming of content other than memes and political bickering needs to be fixed. And people need to stop being consoomers and playing musical chairs with this problem. Try to put in some effort instead of making Lemmy yet another toilet scrolling app.

I do not think people understand. Lemmy is not going to become a forum guzzling behemoth like Reddit. Nothing will. The userbase will expand over time, as people on Reddit start getting fed up, and at some point there will be a combination of aggressive censorship (if IPO goes through) and privacy intrusive authentication. Many hobbyists do not like it, and are only quiet because they can make unidentifiable accounts, even if it requires official Reddit apps or websites to access.

People do not even understand how platforms work. Lemmy has become a non-mainstream, sane platform with federation that is not a shithole like any other previous alt-right failed Reddit clones. There is plenty activity for what are initial days, as users figure out the signup part and the cultural differences between Lemmy and Big Tech social media like Reddit. As a long term Reddit user, Reddit has been becoming shittier by the day, and is largely used due to decades of valuable posts and comments, and niche hobby communities. Ones that exclusively use frontpage are worthless audience and overlap hugely with Tiktok and Instagram users.

Tell me how you were harmed by capitalism, without telling me you were harmed by capitalism.

Fuck you LTT army, I archived the reddit threads multiple times. Go pound sand and LTT.

Debian/Ubuntu/Mint users live their life and touch grass.

Hexbear and Lemmygrad fellow dudes and dudettes ❣️ o7

I just despise Mozilla and their false morality.

What about Brave CEO's inhuman immorality towards transgender people, since you do use Brave? You want to try being ethical?