Another point of view is that OSS and Linux is absolutely amazing.

With a very limited set of exceptions, you can grab Ubuntu or Fedora or whatever, make a USB boot drive, and be in a GUI and shitposting on the internet in about 5 minutes.

Linux has grown tremendously from when I started using it, which was when you’d probably have to end up editing a config file for X11 to add the modeline so X knew the resolution and refresh rate of your monitor because there was no auto-configuration for anything more than like 640x480@60hz (and even that might not work).

And in just a few years we went from very very few games working with Wine, to damn near everything that doesn’t need ring0 rootkits working almost perfectly.

So yeah, it’s not perfect, but it’s absolutely light years from where it was 5 or 10 or 20 years ago and maybe focusing on how great it actually is vs bemoaning the things that still need work will help keep you motivated.

That said, at the end of the day software is just a hammer: you use it to build something. If Linux doesn’t work but MacOS does, or Windows, or whatever does then use what works. There’s no point in using something that doesn’t do what you want to the point that you’re angry/stressed/tired of dealing with it, because life is way too short to spend all your time fighting broken software when all you wanted to do was draw a picture or play a game or watch a movie or whatever.

Good news, then: http://canvas.toast.ooo/

IRC is extremely federated: building a network of linked servers sharing the same channels was done pretty early in it’s existance.

If anything, IRC is more decentralized than ActivityPub-based services, because there’s no ‘home’ server for a given IRC channel, and if thus if a server goes down, you don’t lose all the channels that were created on it.

A list of who an instance federates with or is blocking is at https://an.instance.youre.wondering.about/instances (replace with the proper site name)

Their whole product looks weird: it just looks like you can pay extra money to ensure you get the same exit IP every time.

I don’t know WHAT the use case is for that, but if people want to give someone money for it, might as well take it.

The constant politics argument is tiring. Do you know the politics of the guy who made your favorite game? What about the guy who made your text editor? Or your browser? Or the software in your microwave? Or grew your food? Or the guy who made that song you like? What about the owner of the last convenience store you bought your mtdew from?

Even if the commentary is coming from an honest point of view and not just shitty astroturfing (and it very much isn’t), it doesn’t matter. If you don’t like it, use an instance that’s not run by them and who cares.

I’m configured to point the cloudflare tunnel -> nginx container in the lemmy stack -> nginx.config provided by the devs reverse proxies the rest of it.

I didn’t have to make any changes from 0.17.4 to 0.18.0 beyond updating my docker compose to the new version; tunnel config stayed the same, nginx config was the same, and the docker compose network config was the same.

Wait wait, Oracle took someone’s stuff and did a lazy half-assed job of slapping Larry’s name on it and then shipped it as a product they then sell seven-figure support contracts on?

Well, I do declare.

Be the change you want to see? Lemmy is still a baby and someone’s going to have to make those posts or ask those questions if that content is going to show up there.

This is a fight between IBM and Oracle. There’s been a lot of bad blood between them since Oracle did a s/Red Hat/Oracle/r for their own branded distribution.

IMO that’s the main driver behind this change: don’t feed your largest competitor free stuff and not something specific against Rocky/Alma/whoever else is using the code.

I don’t think it’s the NDA itself, so much as the tone of the way people framed their announcement of it.

Since I haven’t used a Star Wars analogy in a long time, I’ll try one:

If your babysitter wrote you and told you that they’ve got a meeting with the Galactic Empire to take care of younglings on Coruscant, but they can’t talk to you about it, you’d probably be a little concerned.

Like you know how that ended LAST time, and don’t really have any reason to think that this is somehow different, so you’re probably going to freak out about it.

As with most things in life, if you make announcements, make them super vague, and include things like ‘I’m going to talk to Zuck about his new project, can’t tell you anything’ then you’re leaving it up to the interpretation of the reader.

And so everyone is going to assume whatever based on their biases, and if there’s a group of people who are MORE anti-Facebook biased than Fediverse users, I don’t know who that would be.

It’s standard, but I can also understand why someone would find it a little concerning. You’re grabbing prominent developers and admins and such and they’re telling everyone they’re going to have a meeting with Meta they can’t talk about and, honestly, given how Meta generally behaves, I can understand why the interpretation is ‘they’re up to some shit we’re going to hate’.

It’s a combination of:

1. people hate Facebook and don’t want them anywhere near the fediverse and
2. secret talks with NDAs never foretell good things.

Meta’s reputation most certainly precedes them here, and they’re not a company known for politely co-existing with others but rather for stomping in, and taking what they want and packaging it and selling it.

IMO people have a reasonable basis for reacting strongly (though it’s 2023 and the ‘hyperbolic over-reaction’ is the required thing online it seems).