I think Lemny needs to be pitched to more independent communities as a way to provide a forum to their members while being connected to the rest of the Internet. For example, game developers should make lemmy instances for their game communities so they can host a forum and not be subjected to the whims of Reddit. Non profits and guilds as well.

Why isn’t the company paying for it? Anyways, you could just export it to a different format and then back to Excel depending on which features you’re using. But also, I think this is being paranoid. Microsoft isn’t the NSA

I can at least assure you that as a developer, docker is annoying to set up and their documentation is confusing.

Most things in Linux are easier to set up but sometimes installing things happens to be harder than it should be and docker is one of them.

You should keep in mind that compared to other OSs, a lot of Linux software is CLI only, so they won’t always show up in the applications list and you’ll need to check if you have it in a terminal.

Terrible branding because I at first thought it was an underpowered system that would only be good for retro gaming.

So many companies will be at the mercy of Anguilla

Thanks! I’d never down vote a language I don’t know, but I didn’t know this was an option.

Also, single purpose use cases. Servers don’t necessarily run on custom hardware, but they do only one type of thing.

I think it’s too hard to remember both a username and an instance for every user of note. My proposition is simply there being one instance for people actually trying to create a presence. It wouldn’t impact any other users anonymity.

If you want the network to grow organically you need content to attract people there. There are content creators that use Reddit as their primary platform and it’s a big part of their growth. You don’t need to worry about lemmy getting corrupted because it’s open source and distributed. I don’t think having content creators is the problem, it’s having the platform being monitized around it that is.

Yeah, my advice for a novice is just stick with steam Linux games to start. There are plenty of options.

Keep in mind they have zero Linux experience so I doubt they’ll be needing packages that are too obscure for mint, and I wouldn’t recommend trying to run windows software in Linux to a novice.

Lemmy is big enough that we don’t need to wait for that. We can grow organically, but there are still some issues that need to get worked out. One issue is that lemmy is too anonymous and that leads to it not attracting content creators that don’t actually want to be anonymous and want to create a presence. I rarely see high effort OC on lemmy and I think that’s a big reason for it. People that create content that takes tens of hours to create aren’t going to bother with a platform with no kind of verification option where they can show that they’re actually the real creator and not a copycat account since you can have the same username on any instance. I think that could be fixed if there were a special instance for verified accounts only that content creators or notable individuals could use to post from.

Interestingly I’ve actually seen comments go way up in the last month despite the user count going down.

I did it too. I had like 4 or 5 accounts and used 2 or 3 actively until recently if my main instance went down. Now I’m just using 1.

I’m regularly seeing hundreds of comments on posts now and only a month ago it was rare to see a dozen comments on a post. I really don’t need more engagement on a post, that’s plenty. Lemmy still needs more users to sustain more niche communities, but in the places that people are it’s already great.

Isn’t that basically the same as being user banned in this case?

When you have a problem the solution is fragmented between distros, configuration, opinions, and time as solutions constantly change and they all have subtly repercussions. It becomes very overwhelming to figure out a solution and pick the right one.

Every time I see his face it looks like it’s a photo shop to make him look bad but it’s his actual face