You think he might have more tricks up his… sleeve?

That was quick. I guess he won’t get charges for obstructing the law, then. AFAIK he’s the first mammal to lay a golden egg

The problem is threatening the whole Fediverse
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This is a grave abuse of the protocol: messages are silently dropped. It stands against everything the Fediverse is trying to do: allow users to communicate. My experience with open protocols allows me to say that it is a critical problem and that it cannot be tolerated. Would you settle for a mail provider which silently drop all emails you receive if they contain the letter “P”?

Oh, the drama. I think this is a wrong take. The point of ActivityPub is not that we all see everything. Is so the servers can exchange activities. But whether it makes sense to put it in our inboxes or not, depends on what particular application is supposed to do. If using AP would require the application to show everything, what would be the differences between the apps?

I use Threadiverse because I prefer a bit more structured content than what’s happening on Mastodon. While I would love to be able to follow the few accounts and tags on Mastodon that interest me, the fact that I don’t see all that traffic is not an abuse of the protocol

Also, correct me if I’m wrong, since

Pixelfed is designed to mimic Instagram

Then what Pixelfed does is also correct, Instagram also does not show the whole wall from Facebook. Only the pictures, right?

Rolling release means that you won’t be forced to reinstall the whole system when the number after the name flips. And you won’t be locked out of some newer version of a package because the distro you use decided they’re cutting off the updates to “old” versions

If you want something immediate to daily drive and want more of a custom system as opposed to Arch then maybe give NixOS a shot

IMO the main customization part of Gentoo is that you can compile the world without the libs you don’t want to have. With NixOS (AFAIK) being also package-based, how can it offer more custom system than Arch?

Yeah, with time the compile times only get longer and longer

I loved how tailored to me was Gentoo. But as time passes and your hardware gets older, the compilation times get longer and longer. That’s what made me to do the hop

I’ve heard some time ago that now Gentoo is offering more pre-compiled packages. But I don’t know the extent. libstd, gcc and libreoffice were the worst offenders in my time

If you’re going to be compiling your own kernel (or now Gentoo ships with pre-compiled ones too?) my word of advice would be “don’t forget to compile in the filesystem support”

I haven’t done that myself but from https://pimylifeup.com/pangolin-linux/ I understand that will only be subdomain to access pangolin dashboard

how do I keep the vps.domain.tld while also allowing for pangolin.domain.tld to be valid at the same IP?

Domains are just translation from name to IP. What gets served on which subdomain is then handled by nginx or traefik. AFAIK you can have all 3 (VPS, pangolin and root) to point at the same IP

To me the idea of temporality of communities and no instances is interesting. It’s definitely something new

Crazy stuff!

But how is it moved? It copies the activities? Or really transfers them somehow?

In general it shouldn’t. You might need to install some new drivers for the new chipset but in itself the system should work. Especially since nowadays kernels are shipped with a lot of stuff and I’m guessing you’re not compiling yours
Regarding messing up with live environment, I don’t remember if GPT is enough for UEFI to load your bootloader or maybe you might need to install something in there

I get your point. But with such approach I expect messages somewhere else like “I set up an account on fedi, it was really great but after a few months they just deleted my account for no reason. There were some banners about changing instance, whatever that means, but that was for the admins, right?”

I don’t think so. When talking about scale, I think it’s more realistic to think that most of people won’t understand nor care enough to understand what instances are. Even after they become regular users