Wouldn’t it be cool if these were built into their respective platforms!?

I think Sepia Search was actually integrated into PeerTube in the last update (7.1)

Discoverability in the fediverse in general (outside of Lemmy) is a bit shite. Best just to stay here with us.

IMO, Dan has some responsibility but more of it lies with Mastodon and other microblogging software that labels this post type as “private”, “followers only” or similar without any further explanation. It needs to be clear that it’s dependent on good faith and competence of remote servers that may collect that information.

Moreover we need to do a better job of letting users know that anything posted on the internet, and especially anything posted to the fediverse where it’s backed up on potentially thousands of servers, should be assumed to be publicly-visible and eternal. If nothing else, it will be backed up on the internet archive. If you want to communicate privately, this is the wrong place.

I wish there was a private social media platform but it seems like the closest we’re going to get is Signal.

Also “the bullying problem” has nothing to do with the Fediverse and everything to do with people in general and the erosion of nuance.

Yeah this just sounds like one of the drawbacks of a federated system. In order for people on remote servers to be able to see your “private” posts, your local server has to feed that info to them and trust them to handle it appropriately.

As was I.

Never seen it before.

Which has nothing to do with it being shitty, proprietary and anti-consumer.

I mean they charge 800%+ the value for additional storage options. There’s no “thinking” it’s true, it just is.

yeah but it’s only relatively recently that other OEMs are adopting these pricing strategies.

Edited, thanks

I could but I’m going to assume that you already know and will simply disagree.

The industry is evolving. It happens in every industry eventually. When any one OEM corners a sufficient market size (like Bambu), they start taking freedom from the user to lock them into their ecosystem. Then all the other OEMs go “well if they’re doing it I guess we can do it too”. This is what you see trickle down from Apple all the time: headphone jacks, glued together devices, soldered RAM, and most recently unhinged RAM and storage prices, etc.

It’s what you see in the smart home industry as well. A dozen different brands with zero interoperability because none of them want to compete on a level playing field, they all just want to lock you into their ecosystem.

It didn’t seem to work for Bambu but they will back down and then try it again in another 12 months or make smaller changes. They just boiled the frog too quickly.

Making them shitty, proprietary, and anti-consumer does not make them easier to use.

False dichotomy. There are plenty of printers that are pro-sumer and also have great documentation and are easy to use and maintain.

Despite this, they still receive glowing reviews, even from tech-savvy communities.

I mean, most people don’t care. How often do you see mainstream smartphone reviewers making a single mention of the insane amount of bloatware and spyware on phones, or calling out Apple for their unrepairable devices? Shit just blows over eventually and consumers accept it for what it is. 3D printers are not exempt from this mentality.

Jeff Geerling made a video today about how he bought a dishwasher that was top-rated by RTINGS Consumer Reports with no mention of the fact that in order to make it do a God damn thing, you have to connect it to the app, create an account, and connect it to them OEM’s cloud.

Several years ago I bought a DJI action cam and it was the same thing. You can’t do jack shit with it without connecting it to an app and creating an account. I watched dozens of reviews and this was never mentioned. I returned it but I’m sure 99.9% either don’t give a fuck or accepted it.

I thought that proton, bottles, and lutris all basically used wine at the core.

Ehhh well it’s kinda hard to explain. Proton is like a fork of WINE. Lutris uses Proton. Steam uses Proton. WINE is typically preferred for non-gaming software, but Proton might work for those as well. At least that is my basic understanding.

Pretty sure windows store apps are still a no go though?

I honestly don’t know, I can’t remember ever seeing any apps that were only available as UWP.

I have three apps that I need Windows for still, there is no replacement.

…what are they?

One of them might run in proton, but it’s updated regularly, and interfaces with a shared database, and I’m just not willing to be the fly in the ointment if my setup breaks something for everyone.

Proton is primarily for games, anything else you wanna run in plain old WINE. You can do this with Bottles.

I’m not getting it but I know others are.

I’ve asked them several times and they have declined.

What can we do? What can we do about Meta and Xitter and Reddit? Just try to show people that there’s another side where the grass actually is greener and invite them to join.