Next can we outlaw touchscreens? I’m guessing they are far more dangerous in the end.

Finally a headline that correctly describes the situation.

For gaming and home use I think Windows will slowly die off. But I see precious few enterprise customers who are willing to consider Linux desktops for anyone other than sysadmins or programmers. Some will allow Macs for general users but I’ve never seen one that allows Linux.

Pretty sure it was MacOS install media. Probably a decade ago or so.

There are actually 2. One is being more blatant about this and enshittifying in its attempt to be more like Amazon and hide the sellers. The other one is trying ads/subscription. I use the second.

We have this in Czechia. Search engines that aggregate many small web shops together into a single search. Then you can go to whichever shop has the best deal or whatever. It’s what we use locally instead of Amazon, and I always feel much better giving my money directly to the small specialty shops. It’s not technically federated I guess but it achieves the same thing.

PieFed is newer so maybe missing a couple features with some clients, but in general is much better managed and more actively developed. It has some features above Lemmy already too. It will win in the end IMO.

Here is ChatGPT’s take on the differences:

PieFed

• Community topics & categories — lets admins organize communities into shareable broader topics.
• Feeds — user-created bundles of communities (like multireddits).
• Image-heavy gallery views for communities.

Lemmy

• Traditional community per instance model without built-in topic categories (though users can simulate via tags/feeds).

🛠️

Moderation & Safety Tools

PieFed

• Richer moderation toolkit — including stronger instance-level blocks, IP bans, and admin tools.
• Keyword filters and block instance content hiding.
• Emphasis on trust/safety tooling and reputation signals.

Lemmy

• Standard moderation hierarchy (instance admins + community mods).
• Moderation tools are improving but generally less opinionated than PieFed’s “healthy community” features.

👤

User Experience & UI

PieFed

• Keyboard shortcuts, cleaner UI design (subjective).
• Private voting option: votes can be hidden from the federation.
• Comment collapsing at −10 score by default.
• Low reputation indicators for consistently downvoted users.

Lemmy

• Mature, widely supported UI with more third-party apps and tools.
• Some features (like comment UI or search) are subject to continued refinement.

🔌

API & Ecosystem

PieFed

• API support is still maturing; some features in the web UI don’t yet have API endpoints.
• Some third-party clients are beginning to support PieFed but it’s not as broad yet.

Lemmy

• Established API used by many clients, so almost all functionality is accessible to apps.

🚧

Maturity & Stability

PieFed

• Newer project, rapidly evolving, occasionally incomplete features or polish.

Lemmy

• More mature with a larger community and more stable tooling thanks to years of development.

📌

Interoperability

Both PieFed and Lemmy speak the same ActivityPub-based “threadiverse” protocol, meaning:

• You can interact with communities from either platform regardless of which software you use.
• Posts, comments, up/downvotes, and interactions federate across instances and platforms.

It’s the Communist tradition to force it on unsuspecting people because they don’t want anything to do with it otherwise.

Move to PieFed

Finally I will get through my Steam queue!

Using it for authoritarianism, sure… But the end state I’m concerned with is a private company building a fleet of robots so big that it can take on a police force or army and win. And then subjugate the population with or just kill everyone off (because who needs everyone else now that there’s a robot army do do whatever you want). I definitely wouldn’t put it past Elon, Theil, Alex Karp, etc. One of those fuckers would probably do it if they could.

About time. That and AmigaOS I think. What a world we’d live in!

Unknown is kind of a lot here

Home assistant has had a local integration to pretty much all Xiaomi devices for quite a while now.

I’m the dribble of drool from a baby’s mouth every so often.

More please.

Full survey with some historical charts here

For an incidental integration, I’d have to say it’s not bad.

It’s an interesting concept to discuss, but I don’t see a problem in grafting a photo-only community over activitypub.

It beats the alternative of having Instagram remain the dominant player. I mean if you only want to see pictures, you won’t sign up for a service like Mastodon that will serve you text instead.

And I don’t see any need to add a default picture to every post just to get to these people. Let them see their photos if that’s what they want.

It’s still more users for the fediverse and I don’t really see a better way to implement this. Let people enjoy themselves on the fediverse in the way they see fit.

What Bluesky did right was allow you to easily get started with starter packs and block lists. You can have a good feed set up in a few hours versus likely years on Mastodon. And then you can choose if you want algorithms or no algorithms and if you choose that you want one, you can choose which one. Mastodon needs to copy those things and it will be the final destination.