We are running a small comicbook server, so it’s primarily going to be a discussion platform. We don’t need federation, but it would be very nice. It came to my attention that matrix has an ongoing illegal content problem and we don’t have the means to host an island server. So for now something like xmpp will have to do.
I wanted to move a small Discord server, but I changed my mind. I’ll explore other platforms.
I hope Raptor Computing sticks around. If I manage to get a well paying job I’d love to move on to the POWER ISA on desktop and a Fairphone with Ubuntu Touch.
I know it’s exteremely expensive (I mean the POWER desktop) but with the recent Android news I believe the time for compromise has passed. Those of us who are fortunate enough to be able to do so should adopt fully open hardware whenever possible.
I don’t think this is it, a lot of people were ok with that. The problem is drivers, they seemingly never matured enough to get the device to a usable state. Why?
Except it absolutely did. Sure, it got hardware in the hands of developers, but that effort didn’t amount to anything. Pinebook paved the way for Pinebook Pro, which made good on company’s promise of an open, affordable, low power laptop for Linux enthusiasts.
This never materialized with Pinephone, it didn’t even mature enough to satisfy most of the early adopters, who for the most part only wanted reliable calling and texting.
Holy shit, I didn’t even know about that. Damn…
It absolutely failed. Pinebook succeeded, they wanted to build a cheap Chromebook alternative for Linux enthusiasts and they did it. Pinebook Pro was a functional product and it was well received.
Pinephone failed, it made some progress but it never reached a point where a Linux user with basic needs could daily drive it. It seems like Linux phone space moved on to Halium at this point.
Nope, being an open source and privacy zealot I wanted to switch to Lemmy well before anyone cared about it. But I deleted my account because it had like twenty active people on it at most. Now that it’s gaining users I’m definitely staying. I wasn’t very active on Reddit for quite a while anyway, discussion grew repetitive.
I was planing to open a room an a public instance but discovered Matrix network had a big moderation problem in regards to illegal content, so I changed my mind. I don’t know if selfhosting is viable the us right now.