UnshavedYak

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Might be true, honestly. I'm on NixOS using the proprietary drivers for my 3080 and 4090. No issues, took one line of configuration. I do have to stay on X11 unfortunately until Wayland supports the real drivers at least (though i hear that's being worked on, maybe already working?).

For all of NixOS' pain, it really does make some things awesome and simple.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I did that at work and people had a heart attack lol. Which i thought was silly because the mod literally had no code in it besides module file declarations. /shrug

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Expecting every different platform to all move in lockstep is not feasible so a situation where some support downvotes but some do not is going to have to be part of the process. Even if it was just kbin to kbin initially, that'd still be an improvement.

Yea, that is what i was thinking. I myself am working on some ActivityPub stuff and while compat is important to me, i also plan on potentially exposing new features in this manner. If other software wants to federate with it, cool, if not, whatevs. It's data propagation, as with everything in ActivityPub it's optional that consumers use it as desired.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is ActivityPub not open to arbitrary extensions? I thought it was a very loose spec and the only concrete spec is an agreement between instance types. But i've not looked at the protocol closely yet, despite developing around it hah.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Weird, i can. Firefox, Linux.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Yea, i'm working on my own Fedi software and i'm struggling with the point of boosting in the link aggregator context. It's an odd overlap with Reddit-style reposting to appropriate subs, but based on the user.

It makes sense in the Twitter UX, but i struggle to find it's place in the Reddit UX.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's the difference to users of the two platforms, in your eyes? I'm not familiar with the workflows of either Instagram nor DA

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

Yea, i'm not sure how much benefit of doubt we should be handing Mark Zuck of all people. There's few people in the world who make their intentions more clear than him. Not that i'm trying to paint him as evil, i'm not and i don't think he is, but i also see no reason to expect self-run instances to offer an olive branch to him.

We should be vary paranoid about Embrace Extend Extinguish in these communities.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What are your thoughts on reactions instead of rewards?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually like them when there isn't a time limit. Chivalry 2's battle-pass-thing is nice for that reason. It's just something i can throw on while i play normally with no grind

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yup, it's like email but take away recipients. Yea, there's sorta recipients, but you don't really know who it's federated with/etc. We (foss devs) need better optics here. UX is difficult, though i welcome ideas.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I agree.. BUT, i think it's important to also remember that for-profit like Reddit will have incentives to drive engagement patterns which can sometimes (i'm being generous heh) be toxic to the social atmosphere.

Opensource implementations have a chance to change interaction that is more favorable to the user, to the community, etc. I don't believe Lemmy or Kbin offer much here, yet, but Tildes.net talks about this and makes an effort there.

I'd like to see a federated instance that puts more effort in this space. It won't be what Redditors want.. because, well, Reddit built addictive patterns and this is the opposite of that. But nonetheless i think we can make progress on Reddit-likes when we carefully analyze what ramifications Reddit features have.

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