If you’re going to school I absolutely have to recommend a tablet + OneNote. There was no better learning tool while I was in school. I still refer back to those notes several years later. Being able to jot notes on top of pages from class, record audio from classes that’s automatically transcribed, just makes staying organized so much easier.

Fuck Microsoft and Dell and a dozen other companies but to my knowledge, there is nothing comparable. Unless it’s an iPad or something.

As far as I know, there’s only a manually-configured list of instances that DON’T federate…

It’s not hard to find out. It uses their own AT protocol. I don’t know if there’s a list but if I open the app, pretty much everyone I see is running on a federated server…

BlueSky is federated also. Only using a different protocol.

Yes. Has been for a while. But only if Threads users opt into it. Of course the things Meta doesn’t actually want you to do is opt-in, and everything else is either opt-out or not an option at all.

All of that data is public. Federating Threads gives them access to zero additional data.

The fact that they have any Fedi integration whatsoever is a mystery to me but I’m gonna say no regardless.

Reddit didn’t get to 73 million overnight. It took them decades. Lemmy only gets 1 year?

Yes that is what I said.

Because Mastodon comprises like 90% of the fedi

The problem is Mastodon’s shittiness will be spread across the Fediverse regardless of what other forks you make.

If I were to make a new platform, I would not federate with any Mastodon servers.

It’s bad enough when they come around here.

What’s the best mastodon app?

Moshidon 100%

Also how do I use it efficiently for tech related news and info?

You don’t, you use RSS.

You can look in the trending news section. One of many baffling design decisions of Mastodon is hiding all the trending posts, hashtags and news under the search function.

Best thing to do is to personally ask your instance admin to defederate, as well as other users and admins of other popular instances.

I have a feeling there will be no Deckard. Why bother when Meta is investing billions into headset tech and then selling them for $500?

Linux compatibility will be my question as well. If I’m forced to sign up with PSN I’m out LOL

Hopefully it just functions as a standalone headset and doesn’t need any proprietary software…

Maybe, but it’s still one of the best headsets.

I dunno if this is within your wheelhouse but what I’d really like to see is a manual weighting by community.

So, for example, if you’re mildly interested in Linux, you can give those communities a 3/10 weight and that way you’d only see the most popular content rather than having it dominate your entire feed.

And then a gaming community 10/10 weight so you’d see every single post.

Maybe you can combine the 2 and just make the automatic “for you” weighting visible and manually adjustable.

Could just write a PlugIn for GrayJay.

Matter of fact, they have one that works already, just doesn’t work properly.

RSS is still free and still just works.

Except it doesn’t “just work” because most platforms have abandoned it.

The vast majority of computation today runs on Linux.

Arguably not where it matters.

the Windows kernel is counting it’s final days

it’s a pure cost center and no longer offers anything that Linux doesn’t.

You’re delusional. Show me evidence that “the Windows kernel” is going away. Linux is still a giant pain in the ass to use unless you have lots of experience with command line.

Game developers noticed, this year.

Some of them? Sure. Big ones? Can’t even be bothered to tick a box in the Steam client to make them available. Actively adding features that break Linux compatibility and openly acknowledging that, at best, they don’t care.

until the switching cost reaches the current low cost of switching web browsers.

My dude have you not seen marketshare for Chrome and Safari?

Open standards win. It takes flipping forever sometimes. But they do.

Did XMPP win? Did RSS win? Did Linux win? These open standards have been around for decades and are still not widely adopted. At what point are they considered a failure?

Is ActivityPub winning? At best it has stalled after gaining a few defectors like myself from those who are unwilling to tolerate bullshit. But at this point I think it’s abundantly clear that there is no amount of abuse that the majority of users won’t tolerate on proprietary platforms.

When open standards win, it’s usually because the platform was built on them, like email or podcasts.