Sorry I misread. I wonder is poptalk scrubbles is still active? Whatever you consider small I’m not really setting a strict standard

Many people had good suggestions

here were some of my favourites

I refuse to ignore you! You’re doing great, keep it up!

For sure. There’s no specific way you have to track your progress for it to count.

You can ask the account @remindme@mstdn.social. not sure if it can handle a Linux epoch time that far out in the future.

I’m not entirely certain. What I have tried is ordering custom massive hot balls of plasma in space for everyone, but I’ve learned the waitlist is a few billion years long.

Smallish and only occasionally active:

• !hopeposting@lemmy.world
• !boardgames@sopuli.xyz
• !betterment@beehaw.org
• !corvids@lemmy.world

Very Small (~100 subscribers): !trainscanada@lemmy.ca !chatter@lemmy.ca - one of the comms basically only I’ve posted to in the last 3 years

LiveThreadBot@sopuli.xyz did provide live scores for me during the FIFA World Cup. I did try to come out and comment on a couple threads. So a score of 1.1 out of 2 on this criteria?

See my comment

I use Threadiverse to mean Lemmy Piefed Kbin and similar part of the Fediverse, nothing to do with Meta. I selected this terminology to differentiate it from microblogging platforms like Mastodon, though they are absolutely welcome to participate by posting to Lemmy and Piefed communities. With character limits and other structural design differences I suppose it is just a harder challenge. If you have suggestions for another name to describe topic-based online socializing I’m all ears.

Through the 10th proposed category, I’m hoping to make people aware of that connection to the wider Fediverse with links to Masto, PeerTube etc.

Threadtember is a neat name, I’ll see what catches on. Good luck with the move (and the challenge).

My first draft of the 10 categories:

Feedback welcome.

Update: Reception seems good. I’ll post something shortly here and on my home instance.

I know liking anything about AI is unpopular here. I agree with the thought that everything Meta, Anthropic and OpenAI are doing currently are a gargantuan waste of other people’s money, resources and time. Ai Data centres have no real future and if anything tools of fasicsm and surveillance capitalism IMO. Honestly I will continue not to touch frontier models for coding tasks or anything serious.

However as a free-and-open-source enthusiast, I do see some long-term value in an open stack for AI. Qwen has me quite intrigued. It may be able to teach me things and help me put together useful code I can review in detail.

Which brings me to the part we cannot skip, we have to evaluate every definition of a community against a simple test…

Can it be used to harm others, and can it be used to harm itself?

I don’t believe this is as simple of a test for the definition of community as the author makes out, without narrowing down from the numerous definitions of harm as well. Harm could be physical injury, it could be crimes and derogatory hate speech, but it could just as easily be defined as someone feeling uncomfortable, or not being given an opportunity to speak when they felt they deserved one.

To have a healthy community that will last long enough and withstand some inevitable episodes of dispute and drama that brew over time, two elements are required in my mental model:

• A community’s control and cohesiveness cannot fully depend on one entity, whose absence would cause the community to fall apart.
• People within the community have to accept to a certain degree, that people don’t think exactly the same as them on everything.

And so from my perspective, what that degree of acceptable difference is will help define what the harm to be avoided is or could be, in turn informing the test to define the community. I read the whole thing, there were many other good points on hosting communities and the need to connect it to the real world, but since the author kept coming back to this as a central tenet I’m drilling into it a bit.

Lemmy’s search, rediscoverability of older threads has a few things left to be desired, and deleted posts make the comment contents very hard to found, but overall it prioritizes persistence against censorship and archivability over keeping communications private and ephemeral, which is what I like about it.

Just as background: I’d started using Steam Remote Play and streaming since it first was released, and though I don’t use it much these days, I did get through the infinite loading by launching windowed.

The other workaround I used to employ frequently was launch another game that’s easy to switch windows out of (I picked a free point-and-click adventure game I had), then launched the app I wanted to use, browser, game or whatever, through the normal desktop environment. Just as a test, see if that works for you. In my experience in the earlier days, I ran frequently into problems when my host machine was running without a connected display, but maybe things have improved over the few years it has been out.

Also your system is Wayland right? Are Switch emulators running through Wayland or Xwayland, and Cemu not or vice versa? Could that have something to do with it?

*Some google-fu leads me to suggest prepending QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb to the launch command (as a Steam shortcut you would have the launch arguments be QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb %command% )

One thing to test… if it’s not already, can you try configuring the emulator to launch in windowed mode instead of fullscreen, then try streaming? Let me know if that makes a difference.

I like that there are a variety of apps and services for different tastes and needs. On services, I like that Pixelfed and Loops exist to fill Instagram style niches for people even if it’s not my cup of tea. Jerboa is a no-frills Lemmy app and that’s how I want it, but I appreciate that there are many others with a plethora of features and styling choices that suit people, and are not forced to a single kind of experience.

Welcome to Lemmy, thanks for the post detailing your experience and glad to hear you’re getting your family onboard too! I think you’ll feel right at home with the Linux nerds and tech privacy wonks here.

I wanted to consume the content instead of just being fed it.

Like you, this is the basis of a lot of my motivation to try and then stick with these FOSS programs, but perhaps differently than you, it also guides the extent to which I feel comfortable continuing to use some proprietary software and algorithms. I’ve committed to interacting with technology on my terms, even if I have reduced but not fully cut myself off from big tech.

What’s the threshold for a tag?

Just add context as a top level comment or in the body text area. Someone can come in to clarify if the poster is missing it.

Even for a poster sometimes it’s not obvious if there is any AI in the project. Example: Lutris, dev said he is adding Claude commits and will be scrubbing mentions of the tool from PRs. Sometimes AI is discussed but rejected.

It’s easy to tell when a whole project has been vibecoded, but the grey zone of an existing project that may or may not have had slopcode added, is tougher for posters to discern.