Lazy Linux @lazylinux@mastodon.technology

I'm looking for an alternative to Facebook, but I'm unsure which Fediverse option is a good alternative. Hubzilla? GNU social? Friendica?

#Facebook #fediverse #hubzilla #hubzilla #gnusocial

I feel Facebook does these dumb design choices simply to frustrate people so much that they give up trying to leave the service.

I cannot wait for @flockingbird so I can ditch #LinkedIn. As useful as the service has been in the past, it's just a garbage dump of weird motivational stories and spam these days. 😒

can't wait for Twitter to make themselves Mastodon-compatible so we can block their instance

Join our second Plasma Beta Review Day on the 28/01/2021 at 9.00 CET. Regardless of whether you are an end user, an experienced bug triager, or a developer, everyone can help find and squash bugs in Plasma 5.21.

More details at:

https://blog.david-redondo.de/kde/2021/01/25/betaday.html

If you crosspost from twitter to mastodon I would really appreciate it if you marked your account as a bot (see https://superuser.com/a/1439495 for explanation of the effect).

If it's a dual purpose account (i.e. crossposting AND direct posting), then I would appreciate it if you created a separate account for the twitter crossposting and marked that as a bot account.

Crossposted tweets appear as a mess of broken links, missing threads, and the account is often unresponsive to replies.

Thanks!

Instant Messaging: It's not about the app - #XMPP provides sovereignty of your communication

Read a comment in this blog post:
https://xmpp.org/2021/01/instant-messaging-its-not-about-the-app/

#openstandards #opensource #decentralisation #interoperability

#Fedora's #Chromium maintainer suggests switching to #Firefox as #Google yanks features in favour of #Chrome.
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2021/01/25/use_firefox_fedora_chromium_maintainer/

Lots of naysayers bout #Signal lately. Saw this post from @xiu and I couldn't agree more.

https://xiu.io/posts/20-the-case-against-signal/

Writefreely - An open source platform for building a writing space on the web. https://writefreely.org/ #Internet #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Blog #WriteFreely by @writeas__@twitter.com

It seems to me that as a user of the fediverse, I will end up creating multiple accounts across services/servers (eg. Mastodon, pixelfed, matrix, etc...). This works, but i would prefer to have a single identity that could be used across services rather then many identities.

Is there any way to do this? Currently I use keybase/gpg for managing my online identities (going to switch to #keyoxide when I get some time), but this doesn't solve the issue. Wdyt?

I think crossposting (e.g., between Mastodon and Twitter) is a great idea to distribute your content and stay active in multiple networks, but crossposting should always exclude formats that don't translate well or lose context, such as retweets/retoots, @-mentions and replies. Is there a crossposting tool that automatically removes these?

this launcher icon might be the best thing i've ever made. i smile inside every time i go to open an app. #kde

Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs, or Hacker News but it's open source, it's federated with the Fediverse, and zero lock in

You subscribe to communities you're interested in, post links and discussions, then vote and comment on them. Lemmy isn't just a reddit alternative; its a network of interconnected communities ran by different people and organizations, all combining to create a single, personalized front page of your favorite news, articles, and memes.
Each server can set its own moderation policy, to help foster a healthy environment where all can feel comfortable contributing.
With Lemmy, you can easily host your own server, and all these servers are federated (think email), and connected to the same universe, called the Fediverse. For a link aggregator, this means that someone registered on one server can subscribe to communities elsewhere, and can have discussions with people on a completely different server.
Lemmy is free, open-source software, meaning no advertising, monetizing, or venture capital, ever.
See Lemmy - A link aggregator for the fediverse

https://join.lemmy.ml/ https://squeet.me/objects/962c3e103076be71e4289815d9d6db1ec70b8cab

Every year for me has been the year of Linux on the desktop. Because I use Linux as my primary OS. I don't need to evangelize because it's a silly thing to do. If you like Windows, use Windows. I still have a Windows partition for games and playing with WSL2 and stuff. If you like Mac, use Mac. I'll resist going on about right to repair and how Apple sucks. If you like BSD, or Haiku, or Plan 9, OMG that's awesome!

Computers are tools, fossbros need to stop turning them into religions.