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I’m really bad at selling people on stuff, to the point where I usually turn them away from it instead. Usually I don’t even know what to write, I’m bad at putting my opinions into words, but even when I do know, I usually end up not writing anything because of that first point.

Well, the quote I replied to said they don’t seem to keep the releases up to date. Which means there are changes to the site not reflected in the released code. At least that’s how I interpret that, because how else would it be “not up to date”?

Although they of course half-arse it and don’t seem to really keep the releases up to date

Then they’re not technically fulfilling the licence.

I don’t think that’s how the license works. You’re thinking of the general GNU licenses, not the Affero one which Mastodon uses.

To quote the license (from Mastodon’s repo):

The GNU General Public License permits making a modified version and letting the public access it on a server without ever releasing its source code to the public.

The GNU Affero General Public License is designed specifically to ensure that, in such cases, the modified source code becomes available to the community. It requires the operator of a network server to provide the source code of the modified version running there to the users of that server.

That sounds to me like at least Truthsocial users need to be able to access its source code.

Also, from the actual terms:

6. Conveying Non-Source Forms.

You may convey a covered work in object code form under the terms of sections 4 and 5, provided that you also convey the machine-readable Corresponding Source under the terms of this License

I just tried a Lemmy instance and there’s clearly a “Next” button to press after x posts to load new ones. I assume you have that toggled to an infinite feed through some setting, so just reverse that.

If you want proper paging, you can switch to Mbin. No need to abandon the idea and community of Lemmy to get away from infinite feeds. Edit: alternative Lemmy frontends might help as well.

I would, if my carrier didn’t drop support for it. For some reason Google Messages RCS doesn’t work with some people for me (even though they have it enabled), so I literally can’t send them images anymore.

Switzerland here.

Constitutional amendments are very common and easy here, but they need to go through the people and require a double majority (majority of the people + majority of the states). So the government can’t just abolish democracy, to use the example from your comment, without convincing regular people to agree to it.

As for the danger of the head of government ignoring the constitution like what Trump is doing in the US, that would be a lot harder here due to our “head of state/government” being a collective of seven people from four parties. So if any of them wants to ignore the constitution, they have to get the others to agree.

FediDB says there’s 966885 active users on the fediverse in general, with 47.8K being Lemmy users.

Though this is usually measured as monthly active users iirc, so not exactly accurate to the daily you requested.

You can also get the value of any given instance’s monthly active users by checking their nodeinfo endpoint. Here’s the one for your instance. But again, that’s monthly, not daily.

Imo numbers are the best comparison, because just like with kanji, a number has multiple readings and a meaning.

A “2” can be read as “two”, “twe” or “seco” depending on how it’s used (2 vs 12/20 vs 2nd). Just off the top of my head.

Kanji aren’t really hard, there’s just a lot of them. And I can’t learn that many at a time. So it takes ages to get to the point where you can actually read stuff, just in terms of volume. At least with my limits.

That said, one issue I’m noticing is that kanji with the default internet fonts are usually too small for me to make out the differences in the more complex ones. I often need to increase the font a bit with a userstyle to actually make stuff readable.

The “real” hard part is numerous readings (depending whether it’s paired with kana or another kanji, reflected from kunyomi & onyomi plus nanori when applied in people’s names).

Just don’t learn all the readings from the start. When the kanji is used alone as a word directly, there’s just one reading used for it. Other than that, you’re dealing with vocabulary.

We learn “2” as reading “two”, not “twe”, despite that reading being used in “twenty” and “twelve”. We learn the latter two as separate vocabulary words that simply include the “2” character. The same should be applied to kanji. Learn one word for the kanji, and the rest through vocabulary that uses the kanji.

Wanikani iirc takes this approach where they usually teach you the primary onyomi with the kanji, so you can read most vocabulary words right away, while only having to learn one reading. All of ther other readings are taught through vocabulary items indirectly.

On PieFed/Lemmy/Mbin groups are called communities, though.

Slight correction, on Mbin they’re “magazines”, not “communities”.

There’s also Mbin for Reddit-likes.

Unlike Piefed and Lemmy, Mbin also has dedicated support for microblogging in addition to threads. But iirc that is on Piefed’s roadmap as well.

/kbin indeed is dead, and Mbin does have the same feature.

Though worth noting it’s not quite the same as what Piefed has. Piefed combines all posts into one, while Mbin just groups them, but still treats them separately. Still deduplication, but not quite merging.

In which language, English? Though why would renaming them in English require the approval of everyone in the world?

I’d say you don’t even need the approval of everyone living in an English-speaking country. It’s not like the US and UK use all the same words, for example. I think it’s fine for one English country to unilaterally rename them, no need for wider approval.

Mbin doesn’t directly merge threads together, in the Piefed sense where the comments from all threads appear on the same page. It does however group duplicate posts together. For example, I’m looking at this, I don’t see the comments on the other threads here, but I DO see there’s four other threads linked.

Tried attaching an image showing how it looks, not sure if that’ll show up in Interstellar/Piefed/Lemmy though.

Regarding your actual review contents, you know you can already use any app with Reddit, right? You’re not asking for anything new there.

What Reddit iirc took issue with and placed a paywall on was too many requests with the same API key. Because developers would hardcode their own API key into the app, so every person using it was sending requests as them.

If you use your own API key, you won’t run into any trouble with their API pricing. It’s completely free. Many people have continued using Reddit with third party apps by changing the key to their own.

Swiss German is my native language, and I’m fluent in English. My English pronunciation is garbage though.

Theoretically I can also speak German, but I’m extremely rusty in it and lack confidence, so practically I turn into a stumbling mess that can’t say anything without running away to either one of the above two mid-sentence subconsciously.

I’m 29, I joined the fediverse during the Reddit API protests.

Not using Lemmy though, I’m an Mbin user.

Sites like reddit/lemmy, I feel, actively discourage these sorts of personal connections, since you follow subs or the “hot” algorithm, rather than certain people. With so much churn, it is difficult to remember people’s usernames, and therefore difficult to create a real picture of them as a complete human being.

Worth noting, Mbin is a community-based fediverse project like Lemmy that also supports microblogging and thus following users.

Mbin supports microblogging and following users. I’m following quite a few Mastodon users. Also, upvotes are publically visible.

Piefed has multi-communities, though I forgot their name.