Thanks! Also will try to find info on that upcoming one.

Indeed seem to be few to me too. But I wonder elsewhere, like a Japanese Piefed instance and a S. Korean Mastodon instance I found before.

I guess it’s safe to assume, then, that you are indeed a forum troll, going by your insistence on deviating the topic towards bickering and how you behave in the other comments. Thanks for confirming and have a good day/night, depending on where you are. =)

Given this has nothing to do with what I said, it sounds like an inversion to try to bait me into losing my cool, a strategy I often saw in trolls in other forums in years past. Still giving the benefit of doubt, while each person has his/her own form of taking and sharing information, I would still suggest considering how what you say could be taken as baiting or other strategies employed by trolls.

I’d suggest to avoid using some many adjectives in so little sentences. Some may take it as a sign that you could be a forum troll trying to cause a fuss for fun, and thus be more defensive around you. And if any here in the comments are “triggered” indeed, they still seem pretty tame in their responses.

Separating the title from the body of the post as I don’t think they’re directly related:

It would not sound surprising for me if staffers spied on competition to know how they can deal with competition, copy tactics, etc.

Regarding the meme itself, at least imo, having seen cases of what did seem like mass downvotings, the vote/downvote ratio doesn’t seem that big.

Besides, two more things. First, some platforms seem to be more prone to mob mentality than others, so if you feel like you’re targetted, maybe pay attention to where people are coming from. Second, each platform has their own cultures, so a post more negatived than the usual may simply be a termometer of a given platform’s culture.

A given AI has an interpretation of the source materials, not the raw contents to offer. If this AI’s interpretation is faulty, or if another, previously overlooked interpretation could be made, it can’t be made if the sources are gone and no back ups were made. Also, AI could be tinkered to give biased replies. And also if preserving a given knowledge is entrusted to AI, what to do if it is unplugged?

And unrelated to the AI point, but Reddit had plenty of useful stuff, probably due to being the biggest of its type of social media for a long while. But also it would then suffer from barely any competition, turning it further and further into the decaying platform it now is.

So I stick to my point, I hope it doesn’t fall too quickly - useful stuff can still be backed up. And if an user finds something yet to be backed up, I insist he/she does it, be it with Internet Archive, Archive.Today, and/or any others he/she may use.

Though I understand the feeling, I think that, if it must die, that it happens slowly, so people can have plenty of time to back up and/or mirror the useful stuff from there.

Been some years since I last used Fedora, so not able to confirm nor deny anything. Sorry for not being able to help further. =/

Dunno what sort of setup you have, but what I would do, considering my setup and by being a tad on the neurotic side, is to unscrew and detatch any drives but the one to be flashed. This, I think, is the only way to be absolutely sure nothing goes in the wrong place.

If you mean different physical drives, I would suggest detatching the drive with the already installed system when installing the second one.

Also, Linux installers may behave differently from one another, so I would suggest testing on another machine if possible, or at least backing up what you cannot afford to lose in the current machine, shrinking the Windows partition with its native partition manager instead, and picking a system whose installer can spot the correct partitions, maybe e.g. Mint with its option to be installed alongside an already installed system, or Endeavour which, from what I remember, can detect empty partitions.

Also if during install, grub is not set up to have both Linux and Windows as start options, there is a grub manager on Linux too, so that can be salvaged.

And lastly, a word of warning, and reiterating a past point, testing something as big as a dual boot in a computer with sensitive and already existing data is playing with fire.

Tried flashing an USB stick and putting the system ISOs in the stick afterwards?

On not finding anything, see if OpenSuse has anything like apt-cache. On Debian-based systems, it helps a bunch, as it looks for packages (programs) containing in the name or description the keyword you are looking for. Regarding messing the installation, making back ups periodically and keeping the more volatile stuff you do not want to lose on different physical drives could help.

On Mbin instances, it joins 1:1 posts together. Maybe something to ask for the Lemmy engine devs to add?

If anything can be salvaged, I’d suggest backing those up, and then proceeding to make a fully fresh install. That will ensure you don’t come across issues inherited from the previous blunders, and also, I think, will give you the chance to take the same steps, but wiser than before, and so able to avoid the issues you either caused or came across. (Also something I’d recommend maybe around every 1~2 years, precisely because of being able to restart but wiser)

It may be a good idea to launch the game through the terminal for troubleshooting when it doesn’t launch through the UI. More often than not on Linux, the terminal carries very useful info, of which often you can find solutions online once you spot a suspicious line. And for Steam games specifically, to not change the test environment too much, the command for starting a given game is steam steam steam://rungameid/[game_id], where [game_id] is the number that appears in a given game’s page on Steam, e.g. 211820 for Starbound, making the command steam steam://rungameid/211820.

Never paid much attention to that feature, but it sounds similar to microblogging, e.g. Twitter’s posting system. And given that, maybe you’d be interested in checking Mbin (has Reddit-like UI/UX), Piefed (dev says microblooggin is in the roadmap), Mastodon (Twitter-like UI/UX) and/or Misskey (also Twitter-like UI/UX)?

https://thebrainbin.org/m/[email protected]/t/563178/Some-quasi-features-for-Mbin-through-Ublock-Origin-filters

(edit - weird, the link isn’t appearing directly on The/Brain/Bin…)

On a more personal take, I prefer Mbin because “it just works”, I use far more RSS than the sites directly, and when I use them directly, I use an UBlock Origin filter to hide posts I either vote up or down (very responsive =D ) and block sites I recognize as manipulative (rather common sadly). That also makes so I end up not missing much on Lemmy’s functions.

Not familiar enough with PieFed to give an opinion, but among Lemmy and Mbin, of things I can observe:

• Lemmy has far more visual candies / visual noise than Mbin, whose UI rather barebones
• But as Mbin has a more basic UI, it tends to break less and be more compatible with user scripts and filters
• On RSS, from my experience, Mbin links to posts properly through RSS, while, maybe it’s version-dependent, Lemmy sites seem to have a bit of trouble with linking posts with links attached to their titles, usually opening the title’s attached link instead
• However, Mbin doesn’t seem to be able to fetch the post’s body through RSS
• On newer versions of the Lemmy engine, you can block instances and hide posts, but not block domains linked in posts
• On Mbin, afaik, you can’t block instances nor hide posts (both requiring browser modifications from my tests), but you can block domains
• On Lemmy, also maybe version-dependent, but it seems that instances don’t host RSS for federated communities, while Mbin does (good for redundancy, I think)
• For microblogging, RSS doesn’t work on Mbin (might in the future?) despite other microblogging alternatives having them, and integration of microblogging to Lemmy only happens indirectly
• On Lemmy, some communities seem to have an extra step to subscribing where you need approval after applying, while Mbin doesn’t
• Specific to Mbin, but the error 404 issue from Kbin when blocking or subscribing to an user or community seems to be extremely rare with its successor
• Lemmy allows visualizing how formatting will look like before posting, while Mbin doesn’t