Yeah, as someone with a circadian rythm disorder DST time changes kinda destroy me. Every single year, twice a year.

I’m hoping the US manages to get rid of it, we had a bill to do just that get unexpectedly far, before stalling out I think :/

Sending love from the US, y’all take care :)

That’s very fair! I was concerned by that video too, though I would point out that if I remember right, the games in that video don’t work on non-steamdeck devices including if you install steamos on a laptop or desktop

There kind of is though. I’m not here to argue it’s enough to unseat windows but it is markedly different

From a technical standpoint it’s just another linux distro with some nice tweaks for gaming but from a human perspective it has brand recognition, familiarity, a known company behind it. Those things do really matter for adoption. No idea if that’d be anywhere near enough, I’m not inclined to make predictions, but it does have explicit advantages over consumers hearing they can get a laptop with Ubuntu or fedora on it

Yeah as much as politics are really important, especially for folks living in the US right now, it’s easy for it to become like 75% of all traffic you see and it’s a bit suffocating.

Political views and frustration are something lots of lemmy has very much in common, but it’s not healthy to stew in it 24/7 while it drowns out all other more niche communities. There’s gotta be some way of finding ballance between being informed and political solidarity, and having healthy social engagements that aren’t about how broken the world is

I think clear identity (I like the idea of a mission statement that someone mentioned), and a statement of the governance model of the instance would be really cool to see normalized

Erin Kissane has done a lot of fediverse research and found governance was really vital to people’s experiences, good or bad, but it’s difficult to asses from the outside until you have a problem and it’s either handled well or poorly.

Lmao, that’s such a goofy idea, I kinda love it

I’ve found better stuff by asking around for good channels, or learning that folks I follow have made a peertube channel, than I have by trying to use the interface. The discovery isn’t especially good.

There are only a couple decent channels I’ve watched but I get the honest impression there are more, they’re just burried in stuff. Also depends what you’re looking for. There are far more Foss youtubers who mirror over there and make decently high quality stuff than is available for a a lot of other genres of video

There definitely isn’t much, but I think there’s potentially more than is immediately obvious

❤️

I feel very strongly that the best thing any person can do for the fediverse is make it a place worth being :)

At some point I wanna write about it and share my thoughts to try and encourage folks to be intentionally kind in how they shape the culture of this space. I think the fediverse will succeed when the fediverse when folks get here and decide it’s a nice place to be. Plus it just makes me happy :)

Thank you very much for the kind words, it means a lot to me, it’s always nice seeing your face around ☺️ hope you have a good one blaze!

I’m not actually sure honestly. I’d like a Pinterest alternative too.

Pixelfed or Friendica for art pages might be the closest thing to deviantart (as best I’m aware at least). Pixelfed is modeled after instagram, friendica is modeled after facebook.

The network of microblogging sites like Mastodon or miskey (twitter-like) is the biggest fediverse platform, after that is probably reddit like platforms (lemmy, kbin, piefed) and pixelfed.

Most other platforms like peertube (YouTube alternative), loops, friendica, and probably a much of others, are still on the smaller side and still feel much different from their corporate counterparts due to the size difference. They haven’t really hit a “critical mass” yet in my opinion. They’re still cool and worth trying out if you’re interested though :)

The fediverse is still growing, but I’m not sure there are direct couterparts for those specific user experiences yet.

Regardless, welcome! I’m glad you’re here :)

You might like the indie wiki buddy extension, it can automatically redirect you to a independent wiki when you go to fandom (if there is one), remove fandom search results, and redirect you to a ‘breeze wiki’ page if there’s no fandom alternative

(Breeze wiki is an alternative frontend for fandom, much like invidious for YouTube. It guts all the ads and banners and garbage, and gives you a much simpler wiki page)

Other people have already given more than enough answers, but welcome! I’m glad you’re here 😊

The Australian researchers and doctors behind the operation announced on Wednesday that the implant had been an “unmitigated clinical success” after the man lived with the device for more than 100 days before receiving a donor heart transplant in early March.

Just in case anyone else also found the title ambiguous regarding whether “100 days” meant he died 😅

Thunderbird actually had a big resurgence a little while back, I use it as my mobile client 🤷‍♂️ If I understand correctly it’s not actually a directly Mozilla project anymore.

Personally I’m less bothered by the terms of use changes specifically than the bigger picture of mozilla consistently making choices that confuse or raise eyebrows with their core audience, letting their browser languish from a technical standpoint, and making confusing business choices that don’t seem to help their financial future at all while paying executives huge salaries

Wasn’t sure if there were better places to post this, feel free to cross-post if you know other fitting communities :)