Btrfs snapshots?

What I’ve noticed with Wayland in Plasma is that it’s very much tied to my monitors refresh rate.

At 240Hz, with adaptive sync turned off or to Automatic, I get a very responsive cursor.

At 75Hz, or if I force adaptive sync to be on at all times (instead of off or Automatic), then I get a noticeable mouse latency

instances/hubs/rpcs cannot block a user account or community

Why would I want that? That sounds genuinely awful.

Edit - And the plebbit homepage talks about making a 4chan equivalent, and along with this post, there are pepe images everywhere. No thanks. Plebbit can fuck right off

Useful for trolls, less useful for bot spam from throwaway accounts

More moderators and admins

Digikam was my replacement for photo management and tagging. And darktable for editing. You can launch darktable from the Digikam catalogue, so it’s pretty smooth.

It took me a while to get used to darktable, especially the masking, but I genuinely prefer it to lightroom now.

You can also use other editing apps, like Gwenview, etc for quick and dirty edits. The only thing I’ve had no luck with are things like Topaz and DxO. They won’t run on Linux and don’t really have equivalents.

The other part is, lemmy hides content from you unless you have the language enabled in your settings, and so, I have all languages enabled just so I can see all the content. And that makes navigating the language list really unwieldy without a default option

Let me guess, you just watched The Diplomat? :)

The thing is, when that happens, the mods/admins of the trolls new instance ban them there, without the original admin having to do anything.

Abandoned instances, or instances that simply don’t moderate, get defederated, so it’s quite manageable.

The only case where it’s not that clear cut, is where the troll is a big issue for one admin, but not another. Take trans issues for example. I have a zero tolerance policy on transphobia on this instance, but not all lemmy admins are as aware of the dogwhistles as I am, so I will block some users that other admins won’t. It’s not ideal, but it’s manageable, because I can stop their brand of transphobia from reaching my instance even if they’re not banned by the remote admin. And if that pushes the troll to create another account elsewhere to get through the instance ban, then that becomes harassment, and the other admins will act, even if they wouldn’t before.

Thus, the decentralized platform is rolling out a “more aggressive” policy on parody accounts that aren’t clearly labeled.

If it were decentralised, it wouldn’t be possible for the platform to set a network wide policy on parody accounts…

This answer is probably better directed to the OP!

It is a bit comical to how big it gets thigh

That’s the bit the OP was wondering about. Not the feature itself, but the fact that it’s apparently uncapped in terms of maximum size

It’s not shit yet. Right now, it’s good. Honestly, better than the fediverse in core usability.

The issue is whether it stays that way. And yeah, if they open up the way you’re talking about, I’ll probably move over myself, because that’s the protection against enshittification. But if they don’t open up, if they stay centralised, and just play at federation, then the writing is on the wall for how it ends, because it’s happened countless times before. And I won’t invest my time or effort in being part of that community only to lose it

Sure, but the network itself is still there and still running, and I can still use it (albeit with some disruption).

The point is though, that as long as it’s not dependent on a single instance, enshittification isn’t the inevitable end state.

And for me, despite the usability issues of the fediverse instance based method, it’s a better alternative than joining and losing another social media network to gradual enshittification and slack moderation

Basically people like you are blind to the reason as to why bluesky and not mastodon is getting all the twitter runaways.

Bluesky absolutely provides a better, more cohesive and centralised experience than most of the fediverse microblog alternatives.

That’s why it’s getting more people

But the reason it can do that is because it’s centralised, with federation tacked on. And that centralisation means it’s most likely going to go through the same cycle of enshittification as twitter, facebook, reddit etc. Twitter was great to use back in the day. Reddit was great to use back in the day. Then they got large captive audiences that couldn’t leave because of the network effect, and instead of trying to make the platforms attractive to new people, they started to bleed their existing customers for value at the expense of their user experience, because those people had nowhere else they could easily go.

Bluesky will go down that same path if they get a critical mass of users and stop being the “alternative” to twitter.

Mastodon and the fediverse will always be an alternative at best, because they can’t compete with the experience of using a centralised network. But the Fediverse platforms don’t suffer from the vulnerability of centralised networks and their path to enshittification. And for me, that’s going to keep me here.

The only way I’ll move to Bluesky is if they truly embrace decentralisation to the point where the platform/network could exist without them.

Bluesky is centralised and funded by VCs. It plays at being decentralised because people can bring their own hardware to the party and plugin to the Bluesky network, but if Bluesky (the company) turns it off, then Bluesky the platform/network ceases to be usable. They also started without allowing federation with their core network, so they can easily disable it again at any time.

Bluesky is not decentralised in any meaningful way, which means its at risk of the same bullshit that has driven most of us away from reddit, twitter, facebook etc

Anything that requires end users to react to trolls in a reactive way and in a troll by troll basis, and only after the troll has dropped their payload is going to take its toll on vulnerable folk.

Big popular blocklists that people subscribe to aren’t always the answer, because they also have a history of incidentally impacting marginalised groups, even when they’re trying to protect them.

Instances that welcome that part of Twitter are mostly defederated.

Bluesky just got major investment from a crypto bro…

It’s not flukey…

It’s a federated protocol, but the network itself isn’t meaningfully federated, and is basically just Bluesky (the company) infrastructure. Hopefully that changes, because until then, it’s still a centralised social media platform, despite the underlying technology