How do we know that instance will stay afloat though? I see search engines indexing Lemmy already, but they’re all scattered with whatever instance they happened to get in touch with.

It’s like having a discord ‘server’. Nothing gets actually talked about, noteworthy stuffs are hidden beyond layers of clunky mobile UI and everyone’s phone numbers are leaked in the process.

Piggybacking on this, I tried Fitgirl repack releases and some of them hang up during install when executed through wine or proton. I resorted to installing them from a windows boot and then execute them from linux, but does anyone have a better solution?

Hah, bold of you to assume my local public transport actually has a schedule.

Knowing Google, they will probably kill it after months of neglect.

Not sure if shadowbanning can work here. Wasting each instance’s limited pool of resources is not what we want to encourage.

Mongolia being landlocked sandwiched between China and Russia sealed its destiny to these two. If they had another neighboring country willing to counter them sharing a land border…

Kudos for self-hosting fediverse stuff, man.

Happy to be corrected. But I still wish they were used prominently as it used to be before.

They’ll be fine. Remember when we all joked about Covid-19 Omega variant a few years ago?

It made me wince when Android did away with its dessert based codenames and now they’re just ‘Android 12’ etc. It really went corporate after that direction.

And please tell me RebeccaBlackOS shows a cool popup or console message every Friday.

It will probably split and congregate around instances focusing on heavy moderation and KYC vs crypto-focused free-for-all ones if they ever gain traction.

I would absolutely use a VM with no internet connection for these, but then all bets are off if those softwares need direct access to GPU, for example. GPU passthrough is a thing, but I haven’t had much luck personally.

I’m worried about the link rot problem when the specific instance used as source goes down.

I have a morbid curiosity to see that happen.

That’s when they “graciously” offer to whitelist “approved” devices to boot windows VM from.

Redlib and Libredirect are the only thing keeping me sane when I absolutely have to open Reddit.

Shit, I have desktops running with 2200G and 2400G.