thats good to hear that its been generally a smooth process from the couple people talking about their experiences, i havent gotten around to it yet but i appreciate your perspective! might update here on how it goes

and yet, i can see communities that arent on lemmy.world and in fact was calling someone who doesnt use lemmy.world a super-redditor… fascinating…

This is awesome, thank you! I’ll check out your suggestions.

Thanks for the reply, but again, very unhelpful. Of course I’ve heard about lichess, it’s my main platform. I’m not looking for lichess. I’m looking for chessbase. You can’t imagine pirating chess software because you don’t seem to be in the chess ecosystem enough to know the differences between the softwares available. Lichess provides a wholly different service than chessbase.

lol, im getting the vibe. seems the majority of content is bots reposting articles from other sites and these super-redditors in the comment sections

should have expected as much, im trying to give decentralized social media a chance because i love the concept but matrix is a barren wasteland of empty rooms and lemmy is… this. too bad i dont like the twitter format, i heard bluesky has a nice community.

thanks for the reply, but its rather unhelpful. im a FOSS contributor already and frankly this does not address my question at all. i know what i want and why, and nobody here seems to grasp that concept.

also, suggesting to someone who you assumed has no experience with FOSS (given that you felt the need to explain that people are able to contribute to open source software) to ai generate PRs to other peoples projects is quite honestly a deplorable thing to do.

thanks for taking the time to respond to my post, i guess ill just start finagling around with it. i normally use steams proton for windows apps anyway. i appreciate the suggestion.

as for the concerns, they don’t need to be addressed here because i am following the ToS in my post and the software itself is not the purpose of the post. ask any tournament level chess player, none of them pay for chessbase for good reasons that i dont need to detail here because it’s irrelevant to the topic.