I’m not sure if this will entirely make sense, but do you believe there could be some kind of feature to authenticate with a specific instance, but make your ‘home’ instance another?
In other words, to create your account on lemmy.ml, but visit lemmy.world and be signed into your account, effectively changing what your home page and ‘local’ looks like without needing to subscribe to all communities on another instance if you’re interested in having them curate your feed? Piped has something like this, where you auth with one server, but proxy video through another.
The reason I ask is that this helps to get around tricky defederation situations and can improve privacy. Perhaps I want to auth from a server I trust more with my data, but I want to make .world or .ml my home page because they have more content that is relevant to me and that helps me discover it. Or I want to auth from lemmy.ml so I have access to instances that were defederated from .world, meaning I can still use them as my ‘home page’ without needing to actually make an account there.
How do you see this playing out? Instances are free to set and enforce their own rules and standards. You can’t force them to host content they don’t want to.
I’ll say this is really clunky to do and often means being redirected to that instances site where you are no longer logged in. Mobile apps mostly solve this themselves, but its sometimes a pain on desktop. I’d like the ability to somehow group similar communities, but I’m fine if its like Multireddits or playlists on the user end.
Do you think the problem with Reddit was that they removed the_Donald?
Regardless, this should be an instance decisions and others are free to defederate with any instance hosting content they don’t want to see. Just like what happened to exploding heads.
Just to share my experience, I used the archinstall script so I have btrfs snapshots and didnt have to put together everything myself. I almost update every day because it gives me a dopamine hit and nothing has broken in the last year and a half since I switched off Windows. I’ve had fewer issues than when I tried to Fedora with the Nvidia card I already owned. It could definitely be a case of ‘works on my machine’ but I think reports of Arch breakages are overblown.
I had to hold off on updating my Debian 12 server due to a severe bug just a month or two ago.
The reader includes extensions that allow you to download manga from various unofficial sources. So their justification is that it facilitates piracy. It’s still the best manga reader (imo), but there’s dozens of other options for local media without that feature. There’s no world in which I buy physical manga or subscribe to 12 different services to get access to the ones I want to read, so I don’t know how much the company is ‘winning’ with this move.
Reposting a comment of mine to another user in a similar thread:
Why should I share with you if you won’t share back? 99% of people do not upload anything to public or private trackers and a significant percentage don’t seed. Without those private tracker communities developing tools and working together to fulfill specific niches, none of that would trickle down to public trackers and anything but the most popular media would not be available to you. They ensure better quality and curation and I can have something I need uploaded through a request within a day a day or two because the members are motivated to share since they know it will be reciprocated. Anything I upload usually gets uploaded to public trackers by someone else, but I don’t feel any obligation to share things I’ve hand scanned and fixed the formatting on with random people on Pirate Bay.
Tldr, quality/curation is better, retention is better, and reciprocity ensures quicker access to things that are not already available.
You have to pay for Plex to access features you just have on Jellyfin. Like being able to stream to a mobile device.
I don’t know how so many people seem to have issues with it when its always been as easy as installing it directly on my computer and booting up the web interface, or now running it in Docker with a simple compose file.
There are alternatives for most features people think are missing. There are several apps that work on mobile if you want to stream music and alternate clients for video playback as well.
The file size is significantly smaller when you’re downloading a large collection because they’re compressed but can still be played normally through an emulator.
Why should I share with you if you won’t share back? 99% of people do not upload anything to public or private trackers and a significant percentage don’t seed. Without those private tracker communities developing tools and working together to fulfill specific niches, none of that would trickle down to public trackers and anything but the most popular media would not be available to you. They ensure better quality and curation and I can have something I need uploaded through a request within a day a day or two because the members are motivated to share since they know it will be reciprocated. Anything I upload usually gets uploaded to public trackers by someone else, but I don’t feel any obligation to share things I’ve hand scanned and fixed the formatting on with random people on Pirate Bay.