You haven’t even made a case to rest.

Remember what I said about hearsay? Everything in Fedora is FOSS, everything in RHEL is also FOSS (because it’s in CentOS Stream). All the code is released, not behind a “paywall”. All that Red Hat have done is make it more difficult for companies to sell a 1:1 “bug for bug compatible” RHEL clone - those are the “free loaders” being spoken of and who they’re targeting, not the Linux community, it’s people like Oracle (who incidentally are also the ones fanning the flames of this drama).

I’m no fan of Canonical, but even with your description you’re really sensationalising things there as well. The point is by supporting Debian you’re inadvertently supporting Canonical - I don’t think that’s a problem myself but it seems you have double standards.

Not how open source works, you don’t get to choose who benefits from it, it’s for anyone who wants to use it. Ubuntu is downstream of Debian is it not?

First of all you’ve swallowed the myth that Fedora users are beta testing for Enterprise software. That said discouraging people from voluntarily beta testing is bad for the community and fundamentally against the spirit of open source.

As a long-time Fedora user I think Red Hat’s backing is good for Fedora because it means they have a solid source of funding. Apart from the resources that gives them, that way they can be entirely user-centric and not be tempted to sell user data, run ads or anything else against the users’ interests.

There’s a lot of hearsay going on around Red Hat at the moment, some of it has grains of truth, some of it has been distorted beyond fact, I’m sorry that you’re a victim of it.

Try not to believe everything you read by random people online, Red Hat pays people to work on Fedora, you have no idea what you’re talking about.

If they have zero users, they’ll eventually stop the Fedora project

That would be a very sad loss.

Believe it or not there was once a lot of good will towards Reddit.

So I can still see beehaw communities here and comment on them but if I do they won’t show up to beehaw users?

If that’s the case then we really need some indication/warning sign that the instance is defederated, or else people will be talking into the void if they don’t keep close track of which instances are/aren’t defederated.

Ah, I’d been staring at that page for ages and missed it. Thank you.

I’m finding it’s much better to sort posts by “hot” than “Active”, it seems to more heavily prioritise newer posts. I’d really like to make this my default but I can’t work out how to do it - does anyone know if that’s possible?

I think what’s jarring is the contrast with how relatively nice everyone’s being over here, while Reddit hasn’t changed. I had a quick look back at some reopened subs but I don’t have much of a desire to go back right now.

Also, this was never really about the APIs specifically for me, that brought it to a head, but really it’s all about the way Reddit has been heading for the last few years. A lot of people who are back don’t seem to appreciate that.

I hate to say this because it may be elitist, but it’s been on my mind since joining yesterday: the fact that Lemmy is relatively unknown and relatively difficult to sign up to acts as a good filter at the moment. It’s like the early days of the internet where you had to be a certain kind of nerd to have a computer and a modem. It’s been great, like the old days.

I know the lemmygrad.ml instance claims to be Marxist but I don’t think they’re generally taken that seriously (and not to be confused with lemmy.ml) - is that what you’re confusing? Apart from that, the federal nature of Lemmy means it doesn’t really matter what the creator’s political beliefs are.

Really thinking about investing in one of those ~£300 air conditioning units for home next year, as summers seem to keep getting worse, anyone tried those?

I’m not keen on the idea, air conditioning makes it feel even hotter when you go outside - and who wants to sit around inside on a hot day?

If I create a link with the target /c/london@feddit.uk like this, I think that gives a relative link that works across instances which may work in the Jerboa app. Any luck?

Edit: no it doesn’t, sorry, but that should help people on the web version who aren’t on feddit.uk.

As a Fedora Silverblue user, if I’m understanding your question, using toolbox run you don’t have to enter a toolbox to run a command from it, then I just alias my most commonly used commands to avoid having to keep typing it.

Needs more context, if it’s a school day and it’s in the sun I don’t see the problem with taking advantage of it?

I get that he may be under pressure to make unpopular decisions, but I still can’t believe that he invited the whole of Reddit to an AMA and then just answered 14 questions - as if that wouldn’t turn out to be the PR disaster it was. Trying to think of a rational explanation beyond “just incompetent” is really hard after that - unless he has some hidden agenda that involves sabotaging Reddit. There’s surely no way he couldn’t have known that AMA would be a disaster.

A relatively small thing: the 500-comment viewing limit for normal accounts. So many times on Reddit I’ve been put off engaging with posts with 500+ comments knowing that nobody would see it. It’s stupid because comments are just text and unless the software design is absolutely terrible then simple text comments shouldn’t take up bandwidth at all.

I don’t dislike the idea that there could be multiple similar communities (for example Linux communities) on different instances. That way if you have beef with one you could sign up to another; in a non-ideal world that strikes me as healthier than having one to rule them all and lots of people bitter about it. I think it’s best to leave it to sort itself out organically.