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That's not necessary, many people generate garbage anyway.

> I'm not really sure what GenZ is into instead

Things like this maybe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuddle_party

As for modern electronic music, it became very dumb compared to oldschool techno of 90s, who even listens to that crap nowadays? Why someone would pay for loud noise?

> Do we still need it?

Only if relaunched with ActivityPub support.

> All traffic using the cloudflare-ipfs.com or cf-ipfs.com hostname(s) will continue to work without interruption and be redirected to ipfs.io or dweb.link until August 14th, 2024, at which time the Cloudflare hostnames will no longer connect to IPFS and all users must switch the hostname they use to ipfs.io or dweb.link

So, we will have many died links on internet again.

> way is simply that the user will be notified later, so it’s hard to tell what the client really did in the background.

I receive emails instantly. There is polling option in settings, I've disabled it.

> I wonder if this is related to the shift in media consumption habits more than anything.

In the past I was active torrents user but now I just lost interest in movies and music, I'm tired of it. I already saw and heard almost everything, nothing "new" will impress me.

I don't think keeping sockets open waiting for incoming data have big impact on battery usage because there is no data transmission at that moment so radio shouldn't consume much energy in stand-by mode.

I use K9-Mail app for email working 24h a day, it has multiple accounts on different IMAP4 servers. You know, IMAP requires one keep-alive socket per subscribed folder and I have no problem with battery usage.

But isn't your device’s radio powered up all the time anyway?

Firefox's builtin DoH ignores /etc/hosts. I'd prefer systemwide DoH instead.

> I have developed ActivityPub software, I am aware exactly how difficult it is to implement - which is less than what Hrefna's thread would lead one believe.

I have developed too but it wasn't very difficult for me. Well, in most cases all my problems were due to my laziness to read ActivityPub rfcs carefully.

> But I don't want the mods running the instance choosing what I can or cannot see because they don't like eg. Harry Potter. That's my individual decision to make.

Yes, such a phenomenon takes place there sometimes, mostly this problem occurs on some little servers with few active users. I don't think it's a big problem for fediverse, there are servers with adequate moderation you can choose or just run your own.

After Ubuntu moved Firefox to snap, I started using official tarballs for Firefox and Thunderbird.

> And what kind of security do AppImages offer you?

It shouldn't. Security should be implemented as a separate tool, not tied to any package management system.

> Sanctions against regular Russian citizens are morally bad. They stop Russians who flee and protest the war from moving to other countries and give more power to Putin and his fascist regime, and make it easier for it to wage war in Ukraine.

It's not only bad morally but also increases their support for the war.

> They should have used Telegram

It requires phone number.

> I tried to join a server.

This is already a failure. There is no need to join unless you find a topic you want participate in. And you event don't have to, you can even use a mastodon (pleroma, friendica, e.t.c.) account if you already have it if you just want to leave a comment in a thread.

I don't use. I don't care about ads, I'm more concerned about 3'rd party requests so I block them via uMatrix extension.

I don't like their infinite scrolling instead of normal pagination.

> Mastodon's issues are:

Fediverse isn't just Mastodon. There are other implementations of ActivityPub compatible with each other. For example I can use Friendica and comment or retrweet posts from Mastodon and vise versa.

> if I am on one mastodon site, I can not just retweet that post, I have to go to my server and then cut-and-paste a link to that other site.

It was simpler in past versions of Mastodon but they removed that feature for some reason. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/19306 Previously it was "remote interaction" dialog. Other implementations like Pleroma may have kept it.

> no quote tweeting, important for vitality.

Twitter can not do like this https://telegra.ph/file/9ea3a6f4f0e3a5c5fa06e.png

Adding support of other open protocol to Twitter, ActivityPub for example.

> Mastodon is clearly not a replacement for me.

Fediverse/ActivityPub is not just Mastodon.

> If Microsoft is doing so good why layoffs?

Because it is doing better than those layed off.

Private mode is too private.

But do we need yet another language? Python's syntax is almost ideal. Maybe GPT would improve it's performance instead making it 100 times faster?

I prefer keeping dependencies outside of project tree and using symlinks instead.

> ometimes have to write the .desktop yourself if you want it launchable through the UI

I even don't have to manually write them, KDE has kmenuedit.

> On rolling release distributions, you don't ever need Flatpak.

What if I need older version of some software? Or what if I need multiple versions of the same software at once?

AppImage still just works, just like tarball bundles without dependency on 3rd party infrastructure and overengineered solutions like snap and flatpak.

> But flatpak has it sandboxed so

Sandboxing should be a separate tool independent of packaging systems and anything else .

No and I wouldn't use it on Windows. I used Windows before 2007 but never had problems with viruses. Mostly they come with pirated software.