Thank you. My only real concern point no, is running Adobe stuff in a VM. Other than that I think I’m good to go.

I’m into Star Trek, and all set to switch to Linux this weekend!

And it’s always 42. No matter what, or when, or how.

Perhaps some day, if someone understands the galactic economy well enough to explain why it’s always 42 money, we’ll be able to stop fighting and arguing with each other long enough to come together united for once. And share in the beating of that smug smart ass who thinks they know everything.

But your saying Peertube should have all the forum functionality of Lemmy, and the endless short video scroll of Loops.

rgluilis suggested a generic server idea, where the media and experience differentiating is done at the client app level. That could work well. But that’s an entirely different concept and structure.

And that’s great! Everyone gets what they want. But suggesting Lemmy, Pixelfed, and Peertube, etc. should all try to do it the way Friendica does, is a bad idea.

So like a single ActivityPub instance that hosts all the data, but users can have a Pixelfed app, Lemmy app, etc. all connect to that one server and use it to give the experience they specifically provide.

That’s a cool idea. I can see how that would work.

Why would you follow the same accounts on multiple platforms?
Or do you mean one person who has accounts on multiple platforms?

I think you might be conflating two things. Right now the Fediverse largely looks like you just described. It’s in it’s infancy, trying to copy what it sees around it. Eventually it’ll become a rebellious teen and forge it’s on seperate identity. That’s inevitable. I wouldn’t worry about it.

It’s a very different thing though, saying all the apps need to integrate all the features and experience of every other app, so they’re all largely the same and there’s never a need to use more than one. That sounds like a terrible idea.

Is it?
Because that seems really dumb.

Why would any specific niche service want to duplicate the features and functions of every single other niche service? The whole point is to have different experiences and uses, that might be able to (however works for them) interoperate as they see fit.

It’s a terrible idea that they should all try to eventually do all the same everything.

I imagine it’s about trying to minimize the alcohol smell.
But I don’t realy know.

Do you have sources you can cite?
In English if possible. Though I’ll understand if not, and make due with what you have.

When I read the headline without context, I thought casting directors were just casting actors unseen over the phone.
But this is worse.

The current Lemmy version is very customizable. I think it has seven basic types of views, which are further customizable how you like. You can kinda make it look like whatever you want.

I think you have missed what they were really asking.

When I asked someone about it, they basically used them like bookmarks.

Your conflating a fork, with using an engine in your own browser. Nobody is forking Gecko, Blink, or WebKit. LibreWolf is a modified Firefox, not a fork. The LibreWolf team takes every update to Firefox, removes a few features, ads a few more, and releases their version. Same with Brave. Neither is maintaining their own separate fork. They just take the latest from Mozilla or Google and incorporate their code into it.

Maybe someone could fork one of them. Though they wouldn’t be getting any assistance with feature or security updates from the original branch anymore. They’d be totally on their own with what could quickly be an old code base. Which is why nobody does that.

But back to the important part. What do I need to be saved from?

You’re thinking short term.
And, what do you mean save me? Am I dying?

I can’t wait for Servo

It’s not supposed to answer the question. It’s pointing out that the mental model and assumptions behind the question are flawed, and thus the question itself is flawed.

with a single account (isn’t that the point of the fediverse?).

Absolutely not. I’m not sure why people see Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed, Peertube, Loops, etc as all the same thing that should all be one app.

They might communicate with the same protocol, but they have vastly different uses, interfaces, styles, and experience. It’s like saying you want one vehicle that drives like a motorcycle, haules the kids around, gets great mileage, and can tow 20,000lbs.

All your tools fit in the same toolbox, but you use each one separately for the use it’s best suited. Then you put it down and pick up another. Sure you can make a multi-tool but it won’t do any job as well as a proper dedicated tool. It’ll just kinda work if you have no better option.