Oh wow, that’s refreshing haha. Hope it can stay that way.

But how do you know the “algorithm free timeline” is algorithm free? Are they just in chronological order, only shows you direct follows, and never leaves anything out?

As someone who doesn’t know the first thing about bsky, IMO as long as they’re centralized and closed source, it’s not possible to call their algorithm opt-in, nor configurable. You simply can’t know how they’ve arrived at the content they are (or more importantly, are not) serving you.

But yes, I do think lemmy and ActivityPub services in general need to prioritize user control over custom “algorithms” for filtering and prioritizing content.

I wonder how successful a crowd-funded fediverse marketing push would be. I really think that’s the main thing that pushed people to bsky over mastodon.

A huge number of Twitter->bsky converts were people happy to just stay in their bubble, until eventually enough of their bubble engaged with a bsky ad they were served somewhere.

A good chunk of crowd funded ads to push the benefits of mastodon, Lemmy, etc could be the lowest hanging fruit right now.

Thanks for the followup, I found a couple of plasma-wayland packages (I forget if they were through apt or the software center, and i don’t know what the difference is) and tried them out. One of them I’m not sure what it added, but the other did seem to create the necessary file for my partner’s launcher to use plasma wayland. I don’t know if it’s a mint thing, but we always had to do a full reboot between using wayland and x11 window managers; if you just log out and choose the other, stuff would be borked.

Please, elaborate…

If more of you would have voted for Jill Stein, we wouldn’t be in this mess!

/s in case that wasn’t obvious

It did really take off about 5 years ago.

Is it using wayland? I think we were able to install KDE through the software manager, but only the X version.

If you had asked me Q1 a month ago, I would have said yes (and in general, it is a yes, with enough effort). But i run endeavour (arch) and my partner runs mint (which ships with the Cinnamon WM), and a few weeks ago I recommended that she try out KDE Plasma for its wayland support. Turns out, this is not something the mint community supports, you can’t just install it through their software manager, and the mint forums will all tell you to switch to another distro that supports KDE. Meanwhile, on arch, I expect to be able to install it through pacman, choose it from SDDM, and I’m done. Maybe tweak something in my .config, but it’s all downhill from there.

Just a datapoint. Some distros (and their communities) seem to be more receptive to experimentation than others, which can make trying new things easier/harder.

I would recommend fedora, debian, or endeavour + KDE/gnome. Good luck!

I take it this thread is the first time you’ve heard the phrase Right to be Forgotten?

Yeah, “Right to be Forgotten” is a bit of a misnomer. It’s trying to be catchy, but oversimplifies the issue. At the end of the day it’s a data privacy concern. It’s less about someone else remembering you, and more about someone else resharing information they gathered about you with a third party without your consent. But that’s harder to put a name to.