I’ve seen some dashboards around, is this what you’re looking for?

• https://github.com/gethomepage/homepage
• https://github.com/pawelmalak/flame

Definitely this one, the products are sometimes placed right next to legitimate ones and worse:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/marketplace-homeopathic-products-1.6254025

Hidden camera reveals some pharmacists recommend homeopathic products to treat kids’ cold and flu

I sometimes come across influencers pushing chrio “treatments” on pets or newborns, saying it makes them “breathe better” or be “more energetic”

It’s infuriating

Yea it’s really about what people have as the mental model for the platform they are on. It might take time for people to internalize what the network is doing.

Mastodon and Lemmy do mix as it is, but it could be better. Two big areas I’ve heard are

• Lemmy users need the ability to follow mastodon users (kbin has this I believe)

• Mastodon users have a hard time following Lemmy communities and seeing posts, because they end up getting a waterfall of every post/comment at once overwhelming their feeds

That’s a good point, even the platforms may change over time (either by name, or entire projects migrating).

People here say “lemmy” way too much when they really should consider the Fediverse as a whole.

Part of it is that we don’t federate that nicely to the rest of the fediverse yet. I expect that to change over time though

I’m fuzzy on the details, but I do get reports from users on another instance as long as it’s “relevant” (ex. in one of our communities, one of our users)

Banning a foreign user on our instance will fix the problem for our instance, but they need to be banned on the home instance too in order to stop the spam from continuing

Somehow I never tried looking at Digg

It reminds me of the original “Your doctor doesn’t want you to know these 8 tricks for belly fat” ads, only that’s the actual content?

One thing I noticed the other day, while banning one such bot, is that the same network has been posting on Reddit as well.

Turns out the Reddit ones have been posting the spam for months, while the Lemmy ones get banned within hours.

Part of that is the lower volume of content here, but part of it is also the great people that take the time to report bad content ♥️

Welcome!

For this universe of instances to grow, but also to add a bit of personality to the platform! Do a bit of Reddit and add customization options for each community, like on the Minecraft Subreddit of old Reddit that I’ve always smiled at.

For sure! We don’t talk enough about how much customization there is for Lemmy. There is a wide variety of mobile apps that do things in different ways, and userscripts/userstyles to customize the desktop interface. A lot of instances are also running multiple frontends, each maintained by a different dev or team.

For example, our instance is running:

• Voyager interface at voyager.lemmy.ca
• Photon interface at photon.lemmy.ca
• Alexandrite interface at alex.lemmy.ca

Many possibilities, and I’m hoping we can see community customization too someday :)

I’d start with ublock origin for browser extensions, and then add more things based on what you’re looking to do :)

You’ve already mentioned a few, but another might be to explore alternatives to the bad services and start a process to migrate over. That can look like anything from reducing your dependence on a service to moving over entirely.

ex. unfollow people and things you don’t care about

Usually because resources are limited, both financial and time, so people make do with what they can.

As projects grow, and as the FOSS alternatives improve, projects can switch over.

This browser extension “would allow Facebook users to automatically unfollow their friends, groups, and pages, and, in doing so, to effectively turn off their newsfeeds, which Facebook algorithmically sorts to drive user engagement,” the Knight Institute said in a statement.

Interesting, I’ve been doing that manually for a while now (not Facebook though, I haven’t opened that feed in years).

Here’s an article from 2021:

https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/facebook-unfollow-everything-cease-desist.html

I would say to just try it out and see how it is! The live USB works nicely and you can decide you don’t like a distro and move on rapidly. There are also tools out there that let you load up multiple distros on the USB at once, and then pick which one to use when you boot up.

I went through my own struggles with dual booting Linux some time ago. If you search on Lemmy, you can find those embarrassing posts. It was my fault, I got confident and messed with ‘grub’ in all the wrong ways, before cutting my losses early and reverting everything because I had other commitments to deal with.

The good thing though is that it’s totally possible to put Windows back 100% the way it was before, even after messing up as badly as I did (I couldn’t boot into either operating system because the machine couldn’t find the boot entry). Once you’re ready to replace windows with Linux (or dual boot etc.), make a good backup with something like Macrium Reflect and you should be safe to go for it. I highly doubt you’ll make the mistakes I did, the story is to say that you can mess up and be just fine!

As for your use case:

• affinity programs aren’t on Linux from what I remember, you might want to experiment and see if you can run it with Wine or if you have an alternative (ex. Dual boot, different programs)
• Not sure about Davinci, comments suggest that it runs ok on Linux. I like KdenLive

As for what people recommended, and what I’m planning to try soon

• Kubuntu (if you want Ubuntu that looks similar to windows)
• Fedora (what I tried last time)
• Linux Mint

I wasn’t sure myself honestly, thought I’d check if someone else brought it up first

I think people get super excited to share the good news that it’s not a company behind it and all the benefits that come with that

Some more variants if a workout isn’t your thing

• take photos on your phone when you see something nice
• contribute to OpenStreetMap by doing quests on StreetComplete (you answer questions about things you walk past)
• Geocaching, if you live somewhere with things to find

Going by the releases, it didn’t need updates that often, but it still needed updates to fix and ensure compatibility as things changed

Security wise, I think you’re right

Looks like it’s open source, but very dead

• Sorting by new gets around 1-3 posts a day, site wide

• the top post of all time was 6 years ago and it was discussing the shut down of Voat

So while they might not have recent hate speech, it seems like that’s the community that started there. Sort by top all to see the context

It would need to keep up with future changes and any security updates

Hopefully the dev is doing well, and has luck with whatever he’s doing now

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misskey

My understanding is that Misskey is a lot older, from before the Fediverse and ActivityPub was a thing. It’s very popular in Japan, so it might not have as much content from other places.

Firefish (formerly known as Calckey) is an actively developed fork of Misskey that hopes to add many requested community features.

So firefish was started because Misskey development slowed (or stopped?), but it has had issues recently

https://fediversereport.com/an-uncertain-future-for-firefish/