But that’s just it - it’s not a useful heuristic, it’s a delusional framework, even more than the geocentric model was. We were mapping the planets onto that, but that didn’t make it useful.

2. There appears to be a lack of “centrist”, non-political, or right-wing voices (and I don’t mean extreme MAGA-type views, but rather more moderate conservative positions).

I see plenty of them. They’re just mostly on other instances to me (like your home instance).

Furthermore, while it’s tempting to see the so-called ‘left’ and ‘right’ as equivalent mirrors needing to be balanced for diversity, the reality is far from it. After seeing Wolfballs in action (that instance died before the reddit API fiasco), I can tell you we don’t need to be balanced out by ‘white genocide’ discussions and more open anti-semitism. I know that’s not what you proposed, but it’s to illustrate that sometimes there isn’t value in arbitrary balancing the ‘left’ and ‘right’ on these websites.

is it a natural result of Lemmy’s community-driven nature?

It’s also a result of Lemmy’s history and appeal. When reddit went on sprees of deleting subreddits, the right-wing hate groups made their own reddit clones, anarchists typically went to Raddle, and when GenZedong and ChapoTrapHouse went down, they went to Lemmygrad.ml (as a result, it became the largest instance) and created Hexbear respectively. So there is a long history of larger communist communities from day one which was the status quo until the reddit API fiasco.

The Fediverse also tends to attract anarchists and other socialists by the appeal of its decentralized nature, along with a few right-libertarians who see it as an anti-censorship tool. So one could say there’s a bias there.

How might we encourage more diverse political perspectives while still maintaining a respectful and inclusive environment?

That’s tough, because you inherently limit which political perspectives you can encourage.

I’m glad you mentioned the open infrastructure projects. For example, I use some of the few remaining nitter/invidious/etc. servers.

As for free software projects I suggest donating your time with contributions.

Definitely. I’m already spending much of my spare time doing this.

“Which FOSS projects have enough funding that we should donate elsewhere?” is more-or-less asking “Which FOSS projects are overfunded?”, making it almost the opposite of “Which worthwhile FOSS projects are underfunded?”

Plenty of projects I rely on are underfunded or adequately funded, and there are many thousands of underfunded projects. So I’ll have no shortage of projects to consider. By instead asking for the overfunded projects, I can simply cross them off my list of projects to donate to.

That’s a different question.

I just run mpv $URL

When was this questionnaire posted? I didn’t see it and get a chance to answer.

Also, I treat servers different to desktops due to different threat models. The server automatically applies security updates and keeps most feature updates sitting for a while for stability, but on desktop I just install everything within a couple of days.

OP asked for specific examples, do you have any you think are worth emphasizing?

Anecdotally: the night Mozilla builds were a godsend when I couldn’t afford decent hardware.

I don’t know much about them, do you happen to know why the nightly builds were better? Did the new features fix a problem?

I used to have to custom compile nginx to get HTTP/3 and brotli working (significant speed benefits), but now it’s possible to get those in packages on my OS. This makes maintenance far easier or even automatic for me, which is great from a security standpoint.

Nah, I’m just bored of pointless sarcastic replies being at the top. It’s bloat!

I felt that way too, but testing it for a few days on one device changed my mind. Their pitch rings true, it has so many basic QoL features that make you wonder why this wasn’t added to bash two decades ago.

For me, the only bash->fish gripe I’ve had was it took me a little while to get used to having to put quotes around URLs with a ? to stop it trying to wildcard, but again, their rationale makes perfect sense and really I admit it was bad for bash to simply accept that string in the first place.

For what it’s worth, their platform is an interesting bridge which does make the concept of ‘socialism’ more palatable to those who have only heard of the term in reference to Stalin and Mao. They’re the entrance to a pipeline. And while I think it’s worth investigating and IMO ultimately a good thing, it’s also important to understand that Bernie is not a socialist in any meaningful interpretation of the term - they’re pro-capitalism, what they want is social capitalism. They only aim to fix the symptoms, not the root cause.

Good idea, tactless execution. When someone comes to us asking questions with an open mind, being condescending like this could turn them away.

I’m annoyed that a lot of the sites I browse don’t have RSS feeds, and I’ve had to do some really tiresome hacks just to get some to work (for example, even tools like FreshRSS’s HTML parser doesn’t tell you the reason a feed broke, so there’s a dozen different things to adjust blindly until it works).

RSS saves me so much time, I used to waste hours just cycling through pages to see if any updated.

From https://wiki.dbzer0.com/ :

Everyone can read pages here even without an account, but you cannot create or edit pages without an account on lemmy.dbzer0.com

To get permissions to edit articles, your wiki username must match the username you have in lemmy.dbzer0.com. After you create an account in this wiki, simply edit your profile in Lemmy and add the following string in your bio (where wiki_username, is the username you registered on this wiki): wiki-user: wiki_username

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I don’t know more details, but it sounds like a comparable db checker.

Thanks!

I have seen some comrades make talking point flashcards for easy linking.

If you find one, can you please give me a link?

It is, although I’m also fine with the idea of just using existing wiki softwares instead of adding more maintenance to Lemmy, since dev time is restrictive.

For wiki options, I know the owner of Division by Zero self-hosts a wiki (e.g. https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/piracy -> https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy), and Miraheze can be used to host most wikis for free.

From the name, I expected a Hannah Montana Linux type distro.

Privacy-focused isn’t a term I’d choose, but it certainly allows privacy-concerned people to use it, and like you said, avoiding the capitalist surveillance crap that for-profit companies are pulling.