Because you need network effect. Which means you need big money for marketing, content moderation and development costs. That includes algorithms, which maybe you don’t want, but most people do.
It’s not that I want a for profit company, I just don’t think Mastodon will every achieve critical mass without one.
It’s not the users, it’s the developers / investors. I’ve tried so many times to get into Mastodon, but it sucks compared to Bluesky. It lacks content and polish, so it’s no wonder everyday people choose Bluesky over it.
The real conundrum is why isn’t there a for profit company with big money behind it, investing in ActivityPub. I guess you could point to Threads? But insert your “not like that” meme of choice.
Fwiw, apparently Bluesky did initially look at activity pub, but found the protocol lacking, which is why they invented ATProto. I don’t know the details though.
I mean… I still need to go into the dealer to update my 2021 Toyota software. And they certainly don’t provide updates for anything other than safety related issues.
Speak for yourself. I think that’s one of the things Tesla got right. Cars shouldn’t have features locked behind software updates though.
It means it took a lot of time and money to gain vast sums of knowledge, but has no useful ways to apply it.
I’m guessing China has a separate client to comply with the law without needing to add backdoors for everyone else?
Seems strange that they were previously excluding those numbers either way.
Love this game! This is the same studio that did FTL. Two of my all time favourite roguelites.
Any of the Joe Richardson games are obvious picks.
Fantastic game. Don’t let the survival crafter label deter you. It’s a love letter to half life while breaking new ground in all the right places.
I always thought kernel devs were smart people. I’m kind of shocked learning a new language is this big of a barrier to them.
American magic bean companies like Beanco, The Boston Bean Company, and Nvidia
Omg 🤣
Lots of people mentioning collaboration / multiple users, yet all your replies seem to completely ignore this aspect. I’m guessing you might live alone and are struggling to imagine some very common use cases here.
Good call, let’s discourage deep thought and long form discussion. More clickbait and exploitation please!
Element (over the Matrix protocol). As someone who grew up on IRC, it is in no shape or form a replacement for Discord.
You vastly overestimate the average person’s technical ability.
Why not both?
I use syncthing for transferring files around my local network, and nextcloud for sharing files with others.
IMO these are related tools but designed with very separate use cases. Use the right tool for the job.
That’s a good point. I should have said “indistinguishable after some tinkering”. You raise a valid complaint, though it’s not a deal breaker for me.
Why is it a bad way to handle things?
I have an alias set up and SDKs enabled. The experience is indistinguishable from a regular install. But you could also layer it onto the os image or install it in user space if you don’t like flatpaks for the extra resource usage or something. That’s a complete non issue for me though.
I do my main development with Bazzite. I use the Neovim flatpak for my editor and toolbox for builds and such.
I’m setting up something similar using Unraid and VMs. This route would probably be more of a challenge for you technically… But if you’re willing to learn, and pay, Unraid sounds like it would be a good fit for what you’re trying to accomplish.