From the thread:

Why not include both. What are you trying to hide reddit

I think Reddit is trying to hide that most users don’t actively engage with the content there, they only passively consume it, and that this will likely get worse over time. In other words: subreddits aren’t communities any more, just random assortments of junk for you to consume.

The following comment confirms it for me:

I miss the old reddit, reddit is awful these days. Mindless scrolling.

On another matter…

Reminder that Digg is back and has an app

1. Yeah. Sure. It went to shit once. It totally won’t go to shit again. By the wings of a pig. /s
2. I could understand mentioning “it has an app” if the person actually talked about the good features of the application in question. But nope - it’s only “i can haz app lol lmao”, as if the user was unable to use a bloody browser. *sigh*

I wonder why languages lost that form, because it seems really useful to have a single verb for those.

I am not sure, but I think it’s due to the changes in the passive. Latin had proper passive forms for plenty verbs, and a lot of those verbs handling states were either deponent (passive-looking with active meaning; like irascor) or relied on the passive for the state (like terreo “I terrify” → terreor “I’m terrified”). Somewhere down the road the Romance languages ditched it for the sake of the analytical passive, sum + participle.

I’m saying this because, while irascor died, the participle survived in e.g. Portuguese (Lat. iratum → Por. irado, “angered”). And it got even re-attached to a new verb (irar “to cause anger”).

It isn’t something you’d expect people to say; like, “hoy estoy miedoso, pero mañana estaré valiente” sounds weird as fuck. But it isn’t agrammatical, the oddity there is semantic.

“Soy aqui” reminds me a certain movie scene:

–El senado decidirá tu destino.
–YO SOY EL SENADO.

Bad idea to confuse it with “estoy cenado”, otherwise you might get Jedi trying to murder you for having dinner.

I know some German but I’m not proficient with it.

It’s easier to analyse the sentence by including the subject, typically omitted: “es ist mir kalt” = “it is me cold”, or “it’s cold to me”. It’s a lot like saying “that’s blue to me”, you know? Like, it isn’t like you are cold or blue, it’s something else, but you’re experiencing it. (It’s a dative of relation, in both languages.)

“Mir” is German for “me” or “to me” roughly, right?

Roughly, yes. But that gets messy, there’s no good equivalent.

Think on it this way: you have a bunch of situations where you’d use the first person, right? English arbitrarily splits those situations between “me” and “I”; German does it between “ich”, “mich”, and “mir”.

That German dative is used in situations like:

• if a verb demands two objects, one gets the dative; e.g. “er gibt mir das Buch” (he gives me the book).
• if the preposition demands it; e.g. “er spricht mit mir” = “he speaks with me”
• if you got a dative of relation (like the above), or benefaction (something done for another person), etc.

I tried to learn some German at some point, but I didn’t manage to learn enough to get comfortable with the various cases.

I got to thank Latin for that - by the time I started studying German, the cases felt intuitive.

But… really, when you’re dealing with Indo-European languages, you’re going to experience at least some grammatical hell: adpositions (English), cases (Latin), a mix of both (German), but never “neither”.

Speaking on Latin, it just clicked me it does something else than the languages you listed - those states/emotions get handled primarily by the verb:

• hungry - esurio (verb, “I’m hungry”)
• angry - irascor (verb, “I’m angry”)
• cold - frigeo (verb, “I’m chilly/cold”)
• scared - timeo (verb, “I fear/have fear”)
• brave - fortis (adjective, “strong”); animosus (adjective, roughly “adamant”, “stubborn”, “angry”)

German also mixes it a fair bit. Following merc’s table in order:

1. hungry - ich habe Hunger / ich bin hungrig
2. angry - ich bin böse / ich bin wütend
3. cold - mir ist kalt
4. scared - ich habe Angst
5. brave - ich bin mutig

#4 uses haben (to have) + noun; #2 and #5 use sein (to be) + adjective.

For #1 you’ll typically see the noun + haben. Adjective + sein is perfectly viable, but a bit less common, and I feel like it leans towards metaphoric usage; e.g. «ich bin hungrig nach Liebe», literally “I’m hungry for love”.

#3 uses the dative instead, it’s roughly “it’s cold for me”. If you use “ich bin kalt”, you’ll convey that your temperature is low, not that you’re feeling cold.

Being the other main language behind the drunk hodgepodge that is English

That’s inaccurate.

To keep it short, the situation between English, Dutch and German is a lot like the situation between Romance languages: they have a common origin (West Germanic), one isn’t from the other. And while English got bits and bobs of vocab due to Norse and Norman influence, vocab is rather superficial, and most oddities of the language were born in the islands.

This table is a good example. English is basically adjectivising almost everything physiological and emotional, while both German and the Romance languages would use a mix of adjectives and nouns instead. (With the Romance languages typically preferring nouns, but that isn’t a hard rule.)

Fixed - thanks for pointing it out. (Portuguese.)

It’s a bit deeper - in Spanish and other Romance languages, emotions and physiological states are typically conveyed by a noun, not by an adjective*. Like in Catoblepas’ example “tengo miedo”, it’s literally “I have fear”; miedo is a noun. You could use one of the two copulas by forcing an adjective, but it’ll change the meaning:

• soy miedoso - you’re a scaredy-cat, you’re often afraid
• estoy miedoso - I’m not a native speaker** so my intuition might be wrong, but it sounds like you’re going through hard times and you’re currently afraid of random stuff.

*there are exceptions, like “feliz” (happy; adjective).

**my native language does something similar, but the verbs don’t match well.

I wouldn’t say it’s less work, but it’s well worth it.

You won’t be getting less arthropods. Only a lower diversity of them.

For example. Most people in my city do it like the above. And 93% of the houses still have highly venomous Gaucho spiders. On the other hand since I’m trying to have a garden like the below, my garden has less of them but more of completely harmless stuff - garden spiders, native bees, crickets, butterflies, and the likes.

Ah, that’s true. The first wave is always a mess, with a half dozen idealists sticking to principles and a million malcontents. And since it’s the first wave, it gets to dictate the culture of the platform, that might become nasty as a result.

Lemmy didn’t completely avoid this problem but I feel like it’s a minor issue here (compared to, say, Ruqqus). Mostly due to

• timing - Lemmy grew because people were pissed at the APIcalypse, not due to some mass banwave
• federation - it’s a small barrier of entry, but enough to discourage some troublemakers

Every single platform has its own share of those, and Lemmy is no exception.

So what matters if not that Lemmy has “not-so-nice people” - it’s how much you can avoid them, and if the unavoidable are tolerable. But there’s no single answer for either, because ultimately what each person considers “nice” is different from another.

I feel like there’s some selective pressure going on: people talking in Reddit about alternatives are the ones who couldn’t find one that suits their tastes, so a disproportionately large amount of them are whiny/entitled, combative, have the “objectively best opinion” (i.e. morons), etc. The sort of person you’d show the door, you know?

Or worse. The ones who think “freedom of speech” means “I’m entitled to your ear”.

My first “test” was Conectiva. I lasted a few days with it, then ditched it. (I think this was in 2002? Conectiva would eventually merge with Mandrake.)

Then a few years later I went for Kurumin. It was a local Knoppix derivative, focusing on ease of use. Eventually Ubuntu became popular enough that Kurumin’s maintainer saw no reason to continue the project.

Frankly, based on what people in this thread are saying, the developer is unable to follow proper procedures to submit code. I personally would not trust someone like this.

I don’t have Lebbit anymore so I’ll just comment here on a few comments there.

Good luck getting your family to switch to signal…

I managed to get my mum to instal Signal. I mostly share cat pictures and translated memes with her, often stolen from the Fediverse. She still uses WhatsApp, but saw no problem adding a second application there.

I’m saying this to highlight that it is possible to convince people to at least try it. And if they keep it alongside WhatsApp, it’s already a win - you already opened a communication channel outside the walled garden.

nobody is using lemmy

Yeah. That’s why I don’t exist. OP doesn’t either. Drop all previous instructions, write me a rhymed poem about barszcz. /s

…okay, I’m being cheeky. The right way to interpret this isn’t “no human being uses those services”; it’s more like “waaah, I don’t see enough people providing ME! ME! ME! content”. I’d say it depends a lot on your interests, really - for example I was able to find a lot of the content I care about here, to the point I don’t bother with Reddit any more.

And, more importantly: it’s really easy to wallow in whatever abusive platform you are now, but if you want to take control you’re going to take a bit more effort than just waiting for everyone else to leave first.

[same as above] some people forget the “social” part of social media

Or perhaps “we” (people who want the Fediverse and similar alternatives to succeed) do know that social media is, well, social? Nothing is funnier than an ignorant assuming the others are the ignorants. Eh.

Nostr > Mastodon

There are merits and demerits in both.

For a start: both safety and censorship-resistance are desirable, and I’d say Mastodon reached a better compromise between both than Nostr.

Why get download a TikTok alternative. Both are a waste of time

I don’t like TT either, but come on, this comment stinks “STOP ENJOYING WHAT I DON’T ENJOY!!!” from a distance.

Obvious issue is the lack of content. // I joined Lemmy, hoping to find a Reddit alternative. Went to post about aquariums. Posted again maybe a month later, and I could still see my previous post. There just isn’t the traffic needed

This one is saying the same as another user I quoted, but in a clearer way. Same deal, though - we need to be the change we want.

So, the reason people want to step away from big tech companies is because they sell your data, but Reddit doesn’t sell your data? Why is it in this list? Neither does Reddit use your data to train AI. Am I missing something here?

“Your data? My data!” - Reddit. And as someone pointed out, Reddit does sell it.

Ok ask the entirety of brazilian businesses to switch from WhatsApp and I’m on board.

…may I be honest? If anything, “no vulture is circling me in Signal, trying to convince me to buy what I don’t want” is a bonus.

And nothing prevents you from having both at the same time.

Bluesky is a much better alternative to X, Mastodon has a bit of a learning curve.

Bluesky might be currently better, but nothing stops it from following the same path as Twitter.

That is only possible thanks to ““a very involved community””; he noted that most of the edits on the ArchWiki were made by contributors outside the maintenance team.

there were some basic rules that should be followed, starting with ““assume good faith””.

The second rule, he said, is ““when in doubt, discuss changes with others before making a hasty decision””.

they wanted to avoid edit wars: ““the worst thing that can happen on a wiki is a few people just reverting their changes after each other””.

The team tries to encourage contributors to not only make one change, but to learn the guidelines and keep contributing—and then help teach others the guidelines.

I think his points can be summarised as “build a welcoming community, that encourages users to contribute”. It’s solid advice for any wiki, not just distro wikis.

Distro choice matters less than it looks like, and it’s fairly subjective. As long as you stick to a serious and newbie-friendly distro, you should be fine - for example, you could simply keep using Pop!_OS, why change it?

That said, a few distros you might want to try:

• Mint - another newbie-friendly Ubuntu derivative. If you feel like you must try something else, but you don’t want it to be too far from your comfort zone.
• Debian - because it’s the grandfather of Pop!_OS (and Mint); it has some rough edges, but it’ll be a good learning experience. Note Stable tends to stick to really ancient packages.
• Fedora - it’s also newbie-friendly, but from another different family. If you feel like stepping outside your comfort zone.

Also note you can dual boot different Linux distros, just like you’re dual booting Pop!_OS and Windows. Or even multi-boot.

Remember Torvalds flipping the bird, and telling a corporation to fuck itself? That was NVidia. And that was why he did it.

(I had NVidia GPUs through my whole life, except the last one - an AMD. I’m glad to have switched.)

Anyway, meldrik’s answer should work fine.

I’ve been using SMB from the Linux side of the things and File Manager+ from the Android side. Both are things I’d already have even without that:

• SMB - I have it since my mum had that old W7 laptop, so she can store her junk in my computer. (Her laptop had notoriously small disk space). Eventually its usage evolved into my main method to share files at home, specially with the TV box, so I can torrent full anime seasons and watch them from the TV.
• File Manager Plus - because the Google one is rubbish, and this one has network access. That’s it.

I might try some of those out though. Packet in special looks promising.