You vote with your dollars, and if you care what Apple is doing, you tell them.
Buy a non-Apple system, write to Apple, and let them know why you're not longer purchasing Apple equipment.
It's really simple, if you want companies to change, you stop giving them money (and you tell them why if you're no longer doing so). Giving them money tells them they're doing everything just right.
I already had the dedicated server, so it was easy enough to just virtualhost it.
To clarify that comment - I handed lemmy.ca over to @smorks@lemmy.ca as I no longer have the time to run, maintain, and moderate it. The cost for me was negligible at this point - I had it sitting on a dedicated server that ran several other things.
Not sure why I didn't see this... are you interested in taking it on?
Ah, very nice! Do you have the ability to take the DB and host the service somewhere?
Gentoo is one of my go-to's that I come back to time and time again.
I don't mind spending my time with Gentoo as one can have very stable systems with it (as per your choosing), and if one uses a half decent machine to do all the building, it can supply more lowly machines with a current repository of binary builds.
Yes, it has it's headaches from time to time (similar to the mention above about Arch and what happens if you don't update for some time), but nothing insurmountable.
I was never thrilled with Opensuse. I found regardless which flavour I was on, I had to enable so many extra repositories that it eventually turned in to a mess each time.
WSJ sure posts a lot of garbage.
2 - Thanks for the clarification, I stand corrected!
One doesn't need millions of users to have a healthy community, and if communities are built around being divisive hate machines, there's no need to welcome them, they can stand alone as their own ignorant islands. You can't force integration between sane society and the intolerant. The hateful intolerant have to be moderated and told to go piss up a tree.
Gab only turned off federation after it was clear they weren't welcome anywhere.
I don't disagree that growth of the fediverse would be a good thing, but not in an unmoderated fashion. The example growth you give is a great example of the wrong way to get growth - nobody's trying to re-create Twitter. The style? Sure. The content? Nope.
Does this really need explaining? You think a million disinformation zombies would be a good thing?
I guess you weren't aware that Gab is a fork of Mastodon and was originally part of the fediverse until they were essentially locked out due to their crap?
You must be American, if you believe that conservatism vs liberalism is the same thing as hateful racist trolling dickhead vs. people who don't want that in their lives.
The rest of the world (mostly) doesn't live by this constant "red vs. blue" anger fest.
No, harassers don't always stop - this is a very simplistic view of things. Just 'buck up' and all will be well, eh? Have I misinterpreted your comments, or do you also believe that people who are on employment insurance are just lazy?
Hi all,
I have been playing around with notes on getting Lemmy installed from scratch, without using docker or ansible. While these notes have worked for me, there's probably a million iterations of 'better' that could be done to them - I'd consider them a draft at this point. That said, I have used them to create each of Lemmy's components on lemmy.ca.
If you do use these, I would recommend sticking to lemmy release versions as the developers state that are likely breaking changes to things like federation in between releases.
Also, I'm aware that things like the init scripts need some further work - they're just a starting point for now.
If interested, please go ahead and grab https://lemmy.ca/dl/lemmy-resources.tar.gz and have a look at the lemmy-setup-notes.txt file included. There's also example configs for the various component that require them and the aforementioned init scripts.
I hope this is useful to someone!
You pay with cryptography?