Well, user traffic has returned to normal, but we also have to consider that it's just traffic. Some of that traffic is also a bunch of people talking about Reddit, protesting, etc.

That being said, I don't think Reddit will die from this, but it doesn't need to in order for the Fediverse to succeed. All it needs is to push enough people onto federated services and kickstart it, just like Twitter did with Mastodon. We aren't going to all switch overnight, it will be a gradual process.

I get where Jeff Geerling is coming from, but I think RedHat has a point as well.

I think a lot of people are coming at this from the perspective that RedHat themselves are just repackaging open source code and putting it behind a paywall, instead of also being one of the top contributors of software and bug fixes into the Linux ecosystem. Jeff mentions that Redhat is based on other open source software like the Linux kernel, but at the same time doesn't mention that they're also one of the leading contributors to it. I mean seriously, good luck using Linux without a single piece of RedHat code and see how far that gets you. If you're entering the discussion from that perspective of "Redhat is simply just taking other people's work as well", it's easy to have a biased view and start painting RedHat as a pure villain.

I also think that people are downplaying exactly how much effort it takes to build an enterprise Linux system, support customers at an engineering level, and backport patches, etc. Having downstream distributions straight up sell support contracts on an exact copy of your work won't fly or be considered fair in any other business situation and I get why RedHat as a business doesn't want to go out of their way to make that easy.

And it's not like Redhat isn't contributing the developments that happen in RHEL back into the FOSS community. That's literally what CentOS Stream is and will continue to be, alongside their other upstream contributions.

Does it suck that we won't have binary compatibility between Alma / Rocky and RHEL, yes it is frustrating as a user! Does it suck that we once got RHEL source for free and now we have to resort to Centos Stream? Yes! But the reality too is that open source STILL needs sources of income to pay developers to work on the Linux ecosystem, which is getting bigger and more complicated every day. That money has to come from somewhere, just sayin.

Definitely better to just block the community in other instances instead of total defederation. Admins can do so pretty easily. I know beehaw is usually pretty proactive about this kind of stuff.

And yeah...fuck Donald Trump. He's fucked up the US so hard and has put our country into such a mess. I hope they nail his ass straight to jail.

From a technical standpoint, it's not different from Reddit. The only difference here is that normal people can host their own instances, whereas Reddit is only hosted by the company and they can keep it under wraps.

The success of you isnt based on the failure of someone else

Totally agree. Also, that's just a great wholesome motto for life in general tbh hahah.

We should focus on building the community we want and people will come.

Already seeing a positive difference on lemmy.ml. Better feed content and no more posts being added constantly to the top when you browse All

The new labels will "help protect younger viewers and advertisers"

Translation: The new labels will help us get more ad money. It's got nothing to do with protecting young viewers.

Yeah, I wonder how you can federate anonymously while still maintaining defenses against vote manipulation.

All good points. Who the heck cares as long as your employees deliver their promised work on time?

I should add that you should however restrict data storage, mandate disk encryption, etc.

You're kidding surely. That's actually awful. Any source for this? Would love to read more about it.

Setup and you're good to go. The game actually runs fantastically well on the Deck. Medium settings with FSR 2 Balanced drains 15W in dungeons and the open world, 23W in town. Hits a flat 40fps so if you frame limit in-game and set the Steam Deck to run in 40Hz mode, you get ultra smooth gameplay.

She's a genius. After seeing what she did for the M1 driver, I am sure we're going to be in for a treat with whatever she's working on next.

I feel like you're just doing the same thing but from the other side. You're dismissing other people's experiences with Wayland simply because it doesn't line up with what you're personally seeing on your specific hardware.

On my Radeon 680M, Wayland has been an absolute no-go for gaming in terms of input latency and frame pacing. I tried it with Valheim and God of War in KDE Wayland and the performance is drastically worse than KDE X11. Other games like Spiderman Miles Morales show less of a performance gap, but it's still there. And yes I tried it very recently.

Hot diggity, these new changes are amazing! I can definitely see the difference in performance on lemmy.ml. Feed content sorting is also way better without the live updates and bugs with Hot and Active. Great work!

I actually did not know this! I didn't even think the X session was still alive after getting stuck at "Waiting for User session" blah blah.

It could be extra moderation work, but I think it's a bad line to cross to assume everyone on an instance is guilty before they've actually done something bad.

Bad comments can come from anywhere though and mods still have to remove them.

It's not a Plasma issue. It's a SDDM 0.19 issue and it happens more often on certain machines than others. For example, my desktop gets this issue once in a blue moon, but my laptop gets it all the time. Both are running Arch. Not sure if Debian has done some patches to SDDM that works around this issue.

I am actually wondering whether they'll start considering a Flatpak version of Resolve. Seems like Blackmagic is reluctant to support anything other than RHEL and CentOS, and RedHat seems to be moving towards Flatpak anyways, given their recent move to stop shipping LibreOffice.

Sorry to break it to ya, but if you're using Linux you're swallowing RedHat code like a snake eating an alligator.

Plus, firewalld is GPL2 licensed, so does it really matter that the code came from RedHat? The whole point of that license is to ensure FOSS is healthy even though companies whose business practices you disagree with contribute to it.

I am impatient for all this stuff as well, but I guess it is important to get this stuff right as Wayland will probably be the basis of the Linux graphics stack for the next two decades.

No one is saying everyone in the instance is guilty

Defederation is basically treating them like so. I mean, I get it, moderation is hard AF, but pre-emptive defederation when we haven't even seen a ton of toxicity from sh.itjust.works yet is not a good precedent.

Except they're aren't violating the GPL at all. Their source code is still available to subscribers (and it isn't behind a paywall because you can get a free license) and available to the public via CentOS Stream. Their code also goes into upstream projects as well.

The GPL exists so that companies can't just take the code and contribute nothing back. But that isn't what Redhat is doing here so I find your accusations that Redhat is exploiting users to be very hyperbolic.

Well fucking said.

Yeah, exclusives have been a part of the console business model since their inception, so it is odd that they're just starting to look into this business practice now. Still, exclusives do need to die, so better late than never, I say.

I guess you've never tried putting Linux on an Asus laptop lol. It's always sound or webcam issues.

Yeah, I've been missing a ton of comment replies from lemmy.world and it's frustrating. I am wondering if it's because they're still on 0.17.4 instead of 0.18.

Omg, I totally didn't remember that. Yes on my laptop, SDDM looks super tiny while the cursor is gigantic. Hopefully that's all fixed with the new release.

I've been noticing on lemmy.ml that clicking Next in the news feed pagination seems to cause it to scroll to a random point instead of back to the top of the feed, at least on mobile.

Is this a known bug?

Every release fixes more bugs for the advanced DAW usecase. Personally, I've already switched from JACK to pipewire-jack and it's felt like a drop-in replacement.

Yeah I guess it does put pressure on instance admins to remove the offending community from their instance. I am just not sure if we want to cross that line into penalizing everybody on an instance for simply being near a bad community though. I also think doing this kind of proactive censorship also forces these people into deeper echo chambers as they get more and more isolated.

They seem fixed for me. I am getting much better content with Hot now.

I play a lot of FPS and third-person games so input latency is incredibly important to me. Honestly, once you try gaming in a truly low-latency environment (VRR, high refresh rate), it's hard to go back. Every time I try gaming in KDE Wayland on Radeon 680M, I notice mouse input lag and bad frame pacing.

The only Wayland compositor that I know of that doesn't exhibit these issues is the one used on the Steam Deck, but I am guessing there's some special sauce there.

This won't work if Meta gains enough users to swing their weight around. Microsoft does the same thing with Embrace, Extend, Extinguish and it's not something to just ignore.

The game fully supports gamepads. Your basic skill and interact are mapped to A, core to X, skill 1 to Y, and the rest on LT, RT, and RB. LB is for potions. They're all remappable too, so you can configure how you like. Personally, I have basic and core on the triggers, and then the skills on my face buttons.

Honestly, it feels like playing a Gauntlet style game, feels very arcadey in a good way. The only downside is that if you're a caster, it's somewhat hard to aim your spells since you don't have a precise mouse cursor. This makes placing your hydras or your teleport destinations a little bit annoying. They're always placed at a constant distance away from you in the direction you're looking. For enemies, there's lock on targeting though.

Other cool features come to mind, like having a separate vote count for voters from the local instance.

That'd be cool. Like a big colorful number representing the total votes and then a smaller number right below that in parenthesis and a gray color to indicate local instance votes.

I know some privacy oriented services (Brave Browser comes to mind) aggregate telemetry data like that to preserve privacy. Perhaps something like that is possible for Lemmy as well.

Yeah, definitely bigger than 5mm...

There's been so many times when I accidentally trigger the sensor with my phone when I am simply choosing a tip option.

But why would they want to kill their acquistion like that though? Not sure what they're trying to achieve with this move that isn't detrimental to their business.

I know Matrix instances use common ban lists as well. So if the matrix.org instance bans someone, it usually also means being automatically banned on a lot of other instances who follow matrix.org's ban lists. A system like this might be useful alongside a wiki documenting bans.

Why not just send in PRs for the official lemmy web ui? I am sure many Lemmy users want similar functionality and it'd be great if they didn't have to resort to a third party web client.