Unfortunately this tends to apply to most of the "I'm not but..." phrases that people say.

Huh, I wasn't even aware that the Switch had a Twitch app available. I was still under the impression the only video apps were YouTube and Hulu... Guess I am out of date then.

Very nice! What game is this?

Does Minecraft (specifically the Java edition) count as a Linux native game? It's written in Java, so thus it's not really "native" to one specific platform.

It's always worked perfectly for me on Linux, and have a lot of strong memories with the game. Pair it with something like Prism Launcher for easily installing mods / modpacks / resource packs / etc (which is available on Flathub) and you've got a pretty good setup! Though the "official" launcher is available through most package repositories these days as well.

I'm a big fan of Matrix, as it's easily accessible from anywhere - plus I already have a server for it spun up going on two years now which makes it easier for me.

Yes, you can bring up a channel as if its a community by searching it on Lemmy, for example !thelinuxexperiment_channel@tilvids.com - then each video will be its own post, and commenting on the post will forward the comment to PeerTube!

If the channel isn't already "known" by your instance however, you may have to wait until a new video is posted before it is visible to Lemmy.

Looks like the usage may have gone over Vercel's usage policy (I'm not super familiar with Vercel)? I see the following when trying to bring it up:

402: PAYMENT_REQUIRED 
Code: DEPLOYMENT_DISABLED

Anyway, a web browser is a terrible way to interact with the fediverse since the browser doesn’t know about your accounts, so I’d advocate for getting rid of web apps altogether

I'm confused about this - so you're saying that people on their desktop/laptop shouldn't be able to browse Lemmy from their web browser? Having to install an app really only works for the likes of say, Snapchat and Instagram where they're mobile-first platforms which clearly Lemmy is not. Even Discord, who really wants you to use their desktop app allows you to use it via a browser and most of the features are still available (and the ones that aren't are due to browser sandbox limitations, such as PTT and "Krisp" support).

I'm even more confused about "since the browser doesn't know about your accounts", are you saying that its bad that you have to sign into your instance's account when you first start using the site? Because I don't see how that is different from mobile (or even a desktop app) either, I use Liftoff on my phone and its not like it magically signed me into my account even though I had other Lemmy apps already signed in on my phone. I feel like I must be really misinterpreting what you're saying here.

I know that Android does technically have an Accounts Framework that multiple apps can tie into (so that if you have multiple apps from Microsoft for example, signing into one app signs into the others) but I'm pretty sure that only works if all the apps are signed by the same digital key - which makes sense for your general corporation like Microsoft, Google, Apple, etc but not for apps made my multiple independent developers since that would be a massive security issue.

And even if that none of that were an issue, Liftoff is made with Dart/Flutter, which dessalines (the main dev of lemmy-ui and Jerboa) may not have any experience with which could be another potential issue. I've contributed a couple of small fixes for Jerboa, but while I have Kotlin + Android experience, I don't have that much experience with Jetpack Compose (the UI framework Jerboa uses) which means in order for me to make any major contributions to Jerboa I'd need to get caught up on the whole Compose stack first (which when I originally did try to learn it, was an incredibly rapidly moving target like Swift/SwiftUI was in its early days) and I wouldn't be surprised if Flutter was somewhat similar to this.

I'd say it is for me, I feel like I'm invested in Lemmy's potential for growth, and it being based on ActivityPub makes it the one I want to stick with in comparison to some of the others.

People seem really pleasant here which is a nice change from Reddit, it certainly feels like there are less trolls (for now at least).

Lemmy is getting better day by day, 0.18.1 seems to be fantastic and has smoothed out a lot of the rough edges that I was seeing, and not to mention we're getting quite a circle of various apps for both Android and iOS, along with some alternative web-based frontends as well!

I believe they work on Lemmy full time, and earn money from a grant - which I think is tied to them implementing certain features if I'm remembering things correctly.

That being said, I do hope that all of this isn't killing their interest in Lemmy...

My instance has 13 users, and has been up for 2 months now:

1.5G    ./pictrs
3.4G    ./postgres

I do not think systemd is bad, I (and personal preference here) much prefer it over the older style of init systems.

Quite frankly, one of the things that has always irked me about a portion of the Linux community is that as far as I know, a strength and selling point of Linux has always been the freedom of choice. And yet, people start wars over your choices. For example, I know at least on r/Linux if you were to make a post saying that you liked Snaps over Flatpaks you'd get torn to shreds over it. Wouldn't matter what reasons you had either.

It is always something. Whether its about Arch vs other distros, Snaps vs Flatpak vs AppImage vs Traditional packaging, X11 vs Wayland, systemd vs Sys V/init.d, pulseaudio vs pipewire, etc.

I never understood why it mattered so much what someone ran on their own computer. Assuming they're the only one using it, what is the big deal if they choose to run OpenRC, X11, Snaps, and Alsa?

And I get a bad feeling the next one is going to be immutable distros vs non-immutable distros, but I guess we'll see.