LFG that was something I’ve been hoping got added! I’m not even a big gamer, but I like it when I do game.

Yeah something like that was what I was looking for. I don’t see any mention of “Federation worker count” but… not everything is documented so whatever. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Thanks!

Is there a wiki of Lemmy or fediverse terminology for stuff like this? I’m not sure what “Federation worker count” is, but I also don’t know where to look to find the answer.

Honestly, owning up to it being a selfish decision deserves some respect. I’m a big proponent of free expression and avoiding censorship, but I took a gander at the kinda stuff they got over there and…

It’s not even the views they hold that’s my main problem. It’s really that they’re just so needlessly rude and aggressive, and as you pointed out, they seem to be a lot more censorship happy than here anyway. I would be more sympathetic to them if they were less censorship happy themselves, and if they were less mean.

I do want to stress that I hope you keep the number of blocked instances to a minimum, since I feel that it would be better if the Lemmy software had better tools for users to control what they block for themselves better, and also maybe just having “default” blocklists that users can disable, to keep the new-user experience nice, but yeah for that particular instance, I can’t be too mad about it.

I came here because of the reddit situation, but I didn’t come from reddit. I just heard about of bunch of people thinking about going to lemmy and thought it might be fun to try it out.

Do you know about Flatseal? It’s an application that lets you manage flatpak permissions. Until the portals system is fully working, weakening the sandboxing using Flatseal is what a lot of people do to make the apps work correctly.

Also, if you use KDE, the settings app has flatseal-like functionality built in.

In my view this isn’t the end of Reddit, but it is the beginning of the end. This situation will probably pass, but the lemmy devs and instance owners have already gotten useful feedback about how to handle situations like this, and what kinds of things would help lemmy and the fediverse grow. The next time something like this happens (and there will be a next time) they’ll be just that little bit more ready.

Although for me specifically, I don’t actually care too much if Reddit dies. I’m happy as long as there’s a community here. The best thing that seems to be coming out of this situation so far is that many subreddits are now getting lemmy community analogs for people to move to.

The line between IDE and text editor is kinda blurry nowadays anyway. I don’t know that much about Geany, but many of the text editors I’ve used were basically full IDEs, except that the IDE features were opt-in.

Currently I use VScodium as my editor, and I’ve been happy with it. I hear a lot of good things about Kate too, and as a KDE user, I feel like I should try it some time. Kate to me looks like the same spirit of text editor as Geany. Maybe if you’re comfortable with that style of editor, give it shot.

The 2 editors that have really been catching my eye lately have been Helix and Lapce. I think it’s really cool that Helix went with a Kakoune style “selection → action” system instead of the normal vim style “action → selection”. I think Lapce is trying to be a similar style of editor to Vscode, with simple IDE features by default, but then an extension sytem to expand that. Maybe an editor like that would be approachable to you. Although unlike Helix, Lapce seems to be less production ready for now, so maybe wait on that.

For now you could of course just try VScode (or VScodium if you’re like me and want open-source software) since that’s a popular one right now.

Fedora has a pretty good amount of software in the repositories, so a lot of the time that’s enough. When it’s not, flatpak with flathub have most gui software covered, and outside of that, if we’re talking about terminal or command line stuff, most of those have their own custom way to install them, or they just have self contained binaries that you can put in ~/.local/bin/.

I haven’t run into many issues with flatpak like it sounds like you have, so that really covers a lot of it for me honestly.

I’ve been using Hack as my font of choice since probably around 2016 I think. I did a close comparison between the 2 after downloading it, and wow! I think this Intel font might finally replace Hack as my programming font of choice. The font does a great job of making all the common character look distinct from each other. I especially notice the parens and braces having some nice detail. I’ll have to try it out on actual files, but it looks good so far!

Exciting! I’ve been keeping my eye on this space of immutable Linux distros. It seems like there’s gonna be a lot of changes here.

A suggestion I’ve seen is to add reddit.com to your ublock origin “my filters” page. It works great for me!

DNF. It’s slow definitely but it has a lot of really cool features, and the output looks nice.