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My new (& old) FAVORITE DISTRO: Tuxedo OS - Debian Beta
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Clay_pidgin
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some feedback about Lemmy/PieFed from Reddit users
I’ve tried both [Lemmy and PieFed], and the UX is incredibly unintuitive and unpleasant. The main problem is that it’s quite hard to discover content you want while avoiding content you don’t, Bluesky at least has really good custom feeds that are easy to add (the default feed sucks). Another big issue is the general site layout, it’s hard to figure out how to do things as simple as saving a post for later or how to go back to the feed without being redirected back to the post I’m trying to exit.
Maybe they didn’t see the “Feeds” feature in PieFed? The top navigation menus in PieFed are a bit messy. Although shareable blocklists could be cool too, or maybe toxic?
That’s excluding the horrible lack of contrast most frontends use, which makes reading and parsing the site elements unnecessarily difficult (no Lemmy, grey text on a grey background is not good for readability).
I like the Lemmy colors, but maybe it should be easier to change, because they might like the darkly-pureblack theme.
Fediverse feels slower, but not in a good way. More of a ‘if I don’t use this for a week, I’ll see new things’. If I log in after 2 or 3 days, I’ll scroll for 10 minutes and see the stuff I saw last time.
Maybe this is a UX issue of not finding the right feed they would like.
I’ve tried using lemmy and have exactly the same issue. After blocking all the politics stuff, left wing meme stuff and tankie stuff there’s bugger all remaining. Even with all the blocks I’ve made it just seems to be a bunch of toxic left wing people calling each other fascist because of some minor difference in opinion.
I also want nsfw stuff now and then. I hate how censored the internet has become, at least with reddit if I want to see a bit of porn, I can.
Again maybe a UX issue of not presenting what communities they could subscribe to.
I tried twice to join those forums within the Fediverse and I can’t get past the captcha test. The fact that you need approval to validate your access doesn’t seem designed to encourage you to recommend it.
The captchas on Lemmy are AWFUL, I can’t do them either.
(that’s the “Medium” difficulty)
Lemmy v1.0 is adding the ability to do invites, so maybe there will be an invite-only instance that gets some momentum, that could be cool. Invite sites seems like a cool old-internet type of culture.
The fediverse stuff is way too complicated for me, Reddit is very easily accessible and actually has active communities for the topics I’m interested in.
Of course these are naturally going to be all negative because they’re users that bounced off the Threadiverse, but there’s probably hints to what can be improved
Blurry Moon
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@sun i want to get the boys together to watch teito monogatari next weekend. it's got yokai and demons and shit but it's a good example of post-war japanese counter history aesthetics
@rgarner you mean your physical neighbo(u)rs moved? Either way, what made them great neighbours?
@alisynthesis oh, we just got together every week or two for fish and chips and wine, Kate and I ran a save the playing fields campaign together, I did a cover for one of Graham's books, we had each other's house keys, would watch odd bits of rugby and theatre together, Kate looked after our daughter a bit growing up, I avoided humanities at school so a perspective from a history professor was always welcome, we'd share fruit from our respective trees, Kate repaired my suit b4 dad's funeral...
@mono I am very interested in learning things contrary to american propaganda which influences every aspect of american education
@sun i want to get the boys together to watch teito monogatari next weekend. it's got yokai and demons and shit but it's a good example of post-war japanese counter history aesthetics
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I'm the dev here if anyone has any questions, I was waiting till it was in a more finalized state to announce it. Also full transparency since this community is a little more sensitive on it, this project has been agentically built over the course of the last 1-2 years, but I am a SWE in my day job.
I'm sure most people here would be more curious about the ActivityPub -> atproto bridge, I call this Tidepool code is here: https://tangled.org/bretton.dev/tidepool
I'm planning full Lemmy / Piefed / Pylova federation, the goal is not only to be read only here! Ex my comment is from Coves! Communities themselves aren't being federated yet though.
OP I'd love to know what was spamming you, I can help tackle that we don't have many users and signups are disabled, but I do have some automated bot posts running but those shouldn't be federating yet.
Our humble attempt to let folks hear one another.
Real Music, from real folks. Producers, Composers, Beat Makers, Remixers, DJ's, Singer/Songwriters NO ai!
We need about 40 tunes to fill a 2 hour show.
We'd really like rock with Fedi Artist in particularly. So send over what you'd like @brothersoul to include on the show. And it's sorted.
programming@labr.online
Attention: Brother Soul & DJ UpNorth for Bandcamp Friday
https://cal.labr.online/event/labr-presents-bandcamp-friday-o4-with-a-twist-with-brother-soul
@labr
Still plenty of time to get your submission in.
Send to : programming@labr.online
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![[nanachi] TOTAL EMPLOYMENT - S03E07 [1080p].mkv](https://mk.magicka.org/files/c7153a78-b5ab-46c5-9223-1d9c1d1dbf6d.png "[nanachi] TOTAL EMPLOYMENT - S03E07 [1080p].mkv")
@coolboymew@shitposter.world @sun@shitposter.world I'll be using AGPL for my AI agent over email distribution lists abomination too
Duo Users Are Registering the Base of Their Index Finger as a Touch ID Coping Strategy
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/10/25/duo-touch-id-coping
@daringfireball Touch ID is incomparably better if you wear a mask. Face ID “with a mask” fails at least 2/3 of the time. I’ve been typing my PIN for the last five years, probably hundreds of times a day
I'm an #IndieDev and I don't use AI at any stage in the programming process, thank you very much.
I'm developing on Linux and use other libre software whose AI policies are not my policies AI policies I agree with, but all of the code, art, and music in the game is from me or other human artists.
There are many solo developers and small studios doing similar work. Tim Sweeney and Elon Musk need to go fuck each other and stop the gaslighting bullshit.
@cidney Tim Sweeney things artists are the hate mob.
My new (& old) FAVORITE DISTRO: Tuxedo OS - Debian Beta
From impulse purchase to pocket studio: The M-Vave FM-1
M-Vave's cheap FM-1 pocket synth has exploded as a community firmware playground.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/from-impulse-purchase-to-pocket-studio-the-m-vave-fm-1/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
@arstechnica sounds fun!
Hmm, isn't there a company in the same space called MWave? Thought it was a German-native typo for a bit.
Ok, looks like this is the week of funny experiences.
Customer: "I had an AI check our server and it says the SSH port is open and that's not very secure."
Me: "Yes, you asked us to open it so you could access the server via SFTP (actually, you wanted FTP, but we discussed it a bit and found this compromise). Don't worry, it's only accessible from your IP and you land in a dedicated FreeBSD jail. From there, you can only access the 'exchange' directory on your server, where you can upload and download files without affecting the application."
(NB: I had suggested a VPN, but they declined because it was too complicated.)
Customer: "Yes, but maybe it's still insecure. Can't we close it?"
Me: "No, unless you want to lose access to that directory."
Customer: "Ok, thanks."
One hour later:
Customer: "Hi, I think we've found a solution. We've just created an app (!!!) with AI that lets us access the files anyway, but more securely than SSH (!!!). Can we install that and close SSH? Oh, and not in the dedicated jail, but directly in the application's jail, because it needs access to the application's files."
Me: "Frankly, I trust SSH in a dedicated jail, restricted by the firewall, a lot more. I don't think this is a good idea."
Customer: "Ok, thanks."
Half an hour later:
Customer: "Ok, now it's secure. I had another AI check it and it found some security issues, but it fixed them all. Can you install it and disable SSH?"
Me: "I strongly advise against it. I can see problems coming."
Customer: "Ok, thanks."
One hour later, my phone rings.
Their internal IT guy (who has access to the machine, which, after all, belongs to them) had given the AI the login credentials to go ahead with the operation.
Except the AI had managed to lock itself out via the firewall, without even starting the app. And now they couldn't get back in.
Fortunately, I had my own access, via VPN, to a separate jail that the AI hadn't touched (or even considered).
Customer: "SORRYSORRYSORRYSORRYSORRY! From now on, we do things your way."
Well, at least it ended well.
PS: The customer knows I'm sharing this story and agreed to it.
@stefano man I love your stories!
