When people tell me YouTube is one of their most used sites I'm just like "WHY". It's such a waste of time. I'd rather be on Reddit(using boost because I made my own sub just to continue using it) or Lemmy than YouTube.
At least I get useful information from forums/whatever you would call reddit/lemmy.
So Firefox is basically the GOAT when it comes to internet security and privacy? They should team up with the signal guys.
And now it's free with stuff like Let's Encrypt.
Now you can try to get chatgpt to explain what it does. Or Facebooks code llama.
I mean in the main feed, as opposed to the subs/community subscriptions tab. I'd like to use it for content exploration, similar to how I would use /r/all on Reddit, but with memes filtered out.
I don't know if this can be adjusted at the platform level, but is it possible you could put in a filter for meme posts? That is 85% of my feed, and I'd really like to minimize them as much as possible.
I come to Reddit(and now Lemmy) for discussions rather than memes, and the content I'm looking for just doesn't appear in my feed at all really. It would be great if there was a way to filter out or diminish the quantity of those types of posts. Reddit has flair, which makes it easy to filter that way. I'm not sure if Lemmy has something comparable that would allow easy filtration like that.
Unfortunately until it's implemented I just can't bring myself to use Lemmy full time. It's too chaotic content wise, but once it's implemented I may fully switch over.
This should solve that when it gets implemented.
There’s not a good way to control what content I see. It’s essentially either “everything” or “a single community”. On Reddit, you could already have multiple communities about the same topic on Reddit, but usually one was dominant, and you had multireddits to save you if there truly are a few good related subreddits. Now on Lemmy, you multiply that problem by N instances, and subtract the multireddit feature. This situation simply must be made better somehow.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3071#issuecomment-1653885992
Lemmy needs to be easier to use. Finding and following communities is far too complicated.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3071#issuecomment-1653885992
We need to get this proposal implemented. It would pretty much solve the issue.
Community grouping. It would massively increase the available content, and make lemmy much easier to browse.
Yeah for real, this is my experience every time installing any package. Idk what the problem, but dealing with anything out of the discover store is a nightmare
Anti-piracy advocates ALWAYS make this ridiculous analogy, there are infinite copies of the software which you aren't depriving anyone of, but there is a physical good in the car of which you are depriving.
I have a Steam Deck and I've been trying to install packages from AUR and have gotten nothing but endless errors trying to do so. The dependencies I want to install have dependencies which have dependencies which have dependencies.
So I've been having so many issues trying to install packages from AUR(or anywhere that isn't the discover store via konsole). I'm coming from Windows where everything is a simple GUI installer and everything is easy to install.
My experience with Linux has unfortunately been a bit of a nightmare. I'll search for a thread on how to install something, and generally the thread responses will have something akin to "just install it with yay or paru, then type this command".
In my experience it has never been that simple. Installing yay or paru first have multiple dependencies, which I'll run into numerous pacman errors, keyring errors, needing to add repos, etc.
Even worse, those dependencies have dependencies, which frequently then have a third or fourth level of recursion where those dependencies also have dependencies.
Something that I expected to take 2-5 minutes becomes a three to four hour nightmare of googling to find the various commands needed to get those installed, and then I'll hit an issue where something like an invalid signature prevents a fourth level dependency required to install the original package without a solution that I can find, which basically means I just wasted 3-4 hours of my time.
And that has happened at least 5 times at this point with various software/programs.
So, a Decky plugin which adds all the required repos, installs a GUI AUR package manager such as Pamac, updates and verifies all the package keyring files needed to install something from AUR, installs all the possible dependencies that could be needed for AUR packages, installs the needed base devel packages(using this command: pacman -S --needed git base-devel), fixes signature has unknown trust issues;
Optionally removes the requirement/need to type sudo in front of any command(which has to be toggled with multiple warnings to prevent inexperienced users from wantonly enabling it), runs: gpg --refresh-keys), runs these commands(pacman-key --init, pacman-key --populate, pacman-key --refresh-keys, pacman -Sy archlinux-keyring) and anything else needed to update the pacman keyring and keep it updated, removes the need to type -S after pacman to install packages from Konsole, easily toggles disabling the Steam OS read only file system;
Integrates the first togglable functionality in this repo's addon which prevents packages from being lost when Steam OS is updated, installs fakeroot using this command(sudo pacman -S fakeroot) and installs all the optional AUR helpers from AUR would genuinely be amazing and save me endless amounts of frustration.
This would simplify installing Linux packages so, so, so much and allow the experience to be much closer to Windows. I currently dual boot Windows because Linux is just such a nightmare for me to work with.
Even installing Pamac has basically been impossible for me(the AUR GUI package manager) due to the four levels of dependencies which have resulted in numerous errors and extra commands needed to run along the way, which has as mentioned before hit me with an unfixable error.
I would be ever so grateful if someone would develop a tool to get all of these automatically installed while avoiding all of the errors.