!lemmySilver

!lemmySilver

Just trying this out, don’t mind me

Now that’s a strapon if I’ve ever seen one. And it might actually get off if it goes flacid halfway 🤔

Oof, so much nostalgia!

Lost the game!

Before I forget: many thanks for your response! It’s nice to discuss this.

That distinction is important indeed. I could always add a notice to the README to underline that for potential users.

I’m going to make a dependency map of our own libs and license the language tools and their dependencies as LGPL such that they can be relatively freely embedded in other products. The post-processing and analysis libs/applications will then be licensed under the AGPL (dual licensing). We had other libraries under the GPL before, but in the current landscape it seems wise to cover the hosted/embedded variations as well.

Hmm, I don’t know of many widespread (programming) languages with an AGPL-alike license, but would love to see examples! Wouldn’t a language have a better chance of adoption with an easy to integrate licensed library?

As for some full featured visualization and analysis applications that accept the language’s data format: those might be a good fit for AGPL as they generate valuable insights.

With non-core stuff I meant a tiny wrapper around some 2D data or some color palette management. I’m fine with MIT/Apache there and would consider LGPL to keep the landscape simpler.

Try Summit, it’s slick!

Can’t seem tot buy it without paying for the EA subscription shite on Xbox so I’ll wait.

Will be very sad if they continue down this slippery slope. I guess my last donation will stay just that 🫠

Those TF2 class introduction videos are still top tier. The drill sergeant in Meet the soldier or the pyro one spreading joy… Ahh, good times!

Well, it’s meant as an introductory paragraph. I think such a general paragraph should not go to those lengths since the vast majority won’t be facing that issue. Most large instances that you would recommend for first timers are federated well enough that at least the civilised part of Lemmy is very accessible. I think that with:

• sensible defaults/suggestions
• easy to understand intro
• a help/link to a detailed article

you cover enough for users who can’t be bothered, who want to be informed, and those who want to understand what’s going on behind the scenes.

Yes, very much in favor of sensible defaults for first timers. Most frontends/apps support multiple accounts anyway so changing/adding more later on really shouldn’t be a problem

I think they should stick to the “email provider” analogy. Whole paragraph should be something like:

The only thing you need to start interacting with the Fediverse is an account with one of the many providers, just like with email! Providers are freely available across the globe: pick one that suits your location or interests best! You can start browsing the content of nearly the entire Fediverse from whatever provider you choose. Don’t worry, you can always create an account with a different provider later.

You could add a sentence or two about where to find sensible defaults or link an article that explains the more subtle things.

I think the emphasis on instances (and not naming them the more familiar providers) hinders adoption.

Someone’s been binging 30Rock

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But in the end it’s just as with email: providers, spam filters and clients. Some providers have stricter spam filters (~federation), some might prefer another client. Has there been any significant reason to deviate from that terminology?

Meaningful discovery is a major issue in adoption, though. Pro: no search/discovery algorithm that serves some evil plan of world enshittification. Con: no search/discovery algorithm.

Thank you, very informative thread. I’m not accustomed to exploring the modlog, but this clears up some frustration. I’m grateful for the community having mods that care and can understand some issues just becoming to prevalent.

But what if the concept itself is the subject? Context: during someone’s quest for a good OS keyboard, the FUTO one was falsely (or probably just naively) presented as an alternative. That comment thread was moderated to bits, but another user was interested enough to start a topic “Thoughts on FUTO keyboard?” which to me suggests they want to learn more about the matter and why it might or might not be OSI compliant. I dove into all mentioned articles in that thread to learn why and lo and behold the entire post was removed before I could thank the useful comment(er)s there. By removing that, other users can’t benefit from that discussion if they weren’t quick enough.

That was my first interaction, but I’ve noticed it for other topics as well.

That would be my last resort, indeed. I just want to try open discussion first.