I don’t know why I keep hearing of security measures to stop someone sleuthing into bootloaders.

Am I the only person using Linux who isn’t James Bond?

There’s a lemmy.ml/c/voidlinux community as well.

But yea, I once met a Void user at a party, and it seems like any number above ‘0’ is a surprise.

Arch, Void, Arch, Gentoo, Arch, Arch,…you’re all making me feel like a basic removed.

I’ve changed my /etc/issue file, but it doesn’t display when logging into tty2, or through ssh, or a new terminal. Is it meant to be displayed by .bash_profile or similar?

People who want near-perfect distribution of power often talk about the serverless model. It’s sounds like it might work for something like e-mail, but I don’t see how it’s possible for something like Lemmy. This comment it cached on every instance with one person who follows it.

Atm, keeping Lemmy going for a couple of days might require 50 Gigabytes and lots of bandwidth. If you put that on a mobile phone, it’ll be a 50 Gig app, which will drain all your data in minutes.

But I think chatboards work well with servers, so it doesn’t seem like a problem.

It was removed, and I was marked as a bot.

I am not a bot!

Having ‘no single source of truth’ is part of the joy.

If you’re not happy with /r/cars moderators banning everyone who drives a Skoda, then you’re out of luck. Here in federation land, you can just go to a different lemmy.something/c/cars place.

Of course you can still follow and interact with all the /c/cars communities from any Lemmy instance (and interact a little from Mastodon).

Nah - each service (Mastodon/ Pixelfed/ Kbin) requires its own app.

You can sign up to Mastodon, then follow the rest from there, but the experience won’t be complete (no downvotes, for example).

It’s all a little arbitrary. When you create a new service (like Lemmy, or Mastodon), you can have them link with anything, in any fashion you like. The defaults are mostly sensible.

For example, I’ve just made a mastodon post asking /r/casual a question. Once that synchronizes across, you’ll see the topic over there.

I think that setting works on a per instance basis. No need to worry.

Yea, always hated that one.

maybe Elon musk will save the children /YET I SPEAK FALSLY FOR HUMOROUS EFFECT AS MUSK WILL IN FACT NOT SAVE ANY CHILDREN

You’re stepping on the joke, once by mentioning it, and again by ripping out the best thing about low-key sarcasm: that some people don’t get the joke.

Frankly, its racist against the British.

It’s a different thing. E-mail, Matrix, and ActivityPub are all different protocols. Mastodon and Lemmy both exist on the ActivityPub (i.e., the Fediverse).

Lemmy’s so new that I think a lot of people are still unsure how to curate their feed.

“Never ascribe to malice, what can adequately be ascribed to stupidity”

€30? Absolute joke. I can’t imagine these guys make many sales.

This stuff never gets deleted

Even within Reddit communities, a lot of posts ended up in multiple places, and the ‘crossposting’ function seemed off to me, because everyone voted on and commented in different places.

I wonder if a ‘tag’ system wouldn’t work better, where a post shows up under multiple hashtags. This way, a picture could go under ‘#sea #thalassophobia #submarines #pictures’ all at once.

If everyone votes on the same post, posts would receive negative attention for inappropriate tags (I’m assuming that people would downvotes pictures of cats which had the #dogs hashtag).

You can sell accounts?

How on earth would you do that anyway? Do I go onto Amazon, or just my local fruit market?

I should clarify that there’s no karma, because there are very few users. Once there are more people, some users will try to make a bot which farms karma, for the usual reasons.

Reposting definitely serves some useful function, but too much reposting from Reddit will just make Lemmy feel like a cheap knock-off. At this early stage, I feel like new content and chat works better, but that’s just an intuition.

Why make a repost in the first place? Karma? Influence? You’ll find neither in this dark, empty, wasteland.

But it’ll pick up on Monday, and I’m sure we’ll be swarming with more bots than you can shake a Turing test at before long.