What does that mean? You can put any URL in the URL field when creating a new post.

Now we just need to rewrite the Linux kernel in Rust

I strongly believe any discussion around federation/centralization should be avoided when bringing in new users. They will figure it out themselves and if they

I disagree. Most won’t.

It’s better to tell them about federation and decentralization before they join and start asking why there are duplicate communities with the same name (I’ve seen people asking similar questions about the absolute basics of federation here before in some communities). Not in detail, but enough to give them the basic idea.

And if they find it “difficult”, then we already prevented someone from wasting storage space when they would leave the fediverse after a few days anyway.

LW is bigger than it should be. Direct them to some other instance.

You would break up over switching online platforms?

Yeah. Some dude came and suggested the asterism iirc. I don’t see anyone other than a few on mastodon using it. Looks ugly.

What do you think? Of course the latter.

No. They’re another Twitter clone that is already starting to show their bullshit. And the people there never learn.

Never assume Linux works like Windows. You’ll be confused.

You also do not have to use Pop because it is generally praised for its easiness. There are a few other good and easy to use distros out there, like Fedora, Mint or openSUSE.

There are also a few DEs out there, with the two most popular ones being KDE Plasma and GNOME

If you want to use KDE, I recommend you try out Fedora’s new KDE version.

While not all, you also should know a few very commonly used commands to use in the terminal and maybe some basic troubleshooting skills. You don’t need to be using the terminal all the time, if at all. Some common stuff is pretty much doable with a GUI nowadays and you’ll probably be installing your applications through the DEs builtin software center. Pop uses a customized GNOME, so you’ll be using the GNOME Software Center. KDE has Discover.

Since you do game, I suggest you check out ProtonDB. This is a database of rankings of games that work with Proton (Wine) and some even natively. If you play games from Epic, GOG and/or Amazon Prime, you should check out the Heroic Games Launcher. For any other games, check out Lutris. Do note that you might have a bad or good time depending on your GPU vendor. AMD generally works out of the box while NVIDIA might not work as nice as an AMD GPU out of the box. But I think Pop has the option to install the proprietaty NVIDIA drivers during installation, so make sure to select that if you have one. Nouveau isn’t as good as the proprietary drivers.

Regarding your other software, I don’t know whether Reaper will work with Wine. If you don’t mind switching to an alternative, we have Kdenlive and GIMP or Krita.

I used podman. Though you probably can use Ansible, if you want it simple.

There are also a few container management UIs like yunohost that let you deploy Lemmy with a click, but last I checked, it used a very outdated version of Lemmy. There’s also elest.io.

To get rid of it from your list, you’d have to be unassigned as a mod. I don’t think that’s possible if you’re the only mod in a community.

That is possible.

No.

I agree. But I think we can make an exception for some FOSS software.

Are you using the package manager? If yes, try refreshing your mirrors.

When I first started out, I just browsed through the All feed, checked the Communities page and also found some new interesting ones from various communities. You also might want to check out https://lemmyverse.net/communities

Yes, that’s exactly what I’m talking about. Anything that leads to the demise of Reddit is something I (personally) will be happy about. It’s their problem if they stay on a platform like that, knowing full well that their community can be banned in an instant. Now they have the option to create that community here.

Yeah well, it’s not news that Reddit does this. I’m still baffled how people see this as sad news here.

Why is it sad news?

Google

That information is stored in the database of the instance you’re on. Note that this only affects the UI. It does nothing more than make blocked users invisible for you. They can fully interact with your posts, comments, view your profile, etc.