I often upvote a couple of posts before I identify a poster as a spammer and block them. Even if the quality of their posts is fine when considered without context, comment sections and actual original content are much more important than reposted memes and spamposting stifles those.

Definitely not. It’s one thing if the posters add context where necessary and are active in the comments (e.g. PugJesus on history memes), but there are tons of accounts that don’t interact with the comments at all and just spam posts. I think in a lot of communities, they actually crowd out the posters with OC or that would at least stay around to talk about their post.

Also, a lot of these accounts are clearly using some kind of automation for their posts, but can’t be arsed to space out their posts over time so it’s not just 10 of their posts one after the other on All.

Now explain why tankies seem to be extremely fond of current Russia, even though it makes no attempt to hide its rightwing authoritarian nature. “Geopolitics”/“enemy of my enemy” can only explain so much of that IMO.

Are flying drones not “air support”?

Kinda sketchy how only one of the scales starts at 0.

The global perspective isn’t necessarily the most helpful or insightful. e.g. Mastodon and Bluesky have pretty high amounts of users and active posters in Germany relative to X. Here is a source in German, there was a recent Lemmy post about it but I neglected to save it. Are Germans just masochists or huge nerds, or is it more of a marketing issue?

What about this sounds sad?

TIL the Instagram-alike Pixelfed has more monthly active users than the entire threadiverse. I never knew that people were even using Pixelfed in relevant numbers …

Lemmy vs Piefed doesn’t really make a difference, because it’s the same type of Reddit-style platform (also called “threadiverse”), while Mastodon is Twitter-style. The interoperability isn’t great IMO, because the usage patterns are quite different. e.g. if you reply to a Mastodon post on a threadiverse platform, the OOP on Mastodon won’t see any of the replies, and are probably not even aware that there are threadiverse threads about their post. IIRC you need to @ the OOP in each of your replies, which you need to do manually in the threadiverse, which isn’t particularly obvious if you never use Mastodon yourself.

IDK if that’s a good idea, even Mastodon and Lemmy don’t really interact that well. It’s easier to just make a separate account for each type of platform.

Map projection based on an icosahedron globe is a new one.

Eh. Asia is only 3.1 times larger than Antarctica, both Europe and Oceania/Australia are even smaller and South America isn’t that much larger. It’s a different matter if we compare it to Eurasia and America (north+south), though.

I’d say it still counts as diurnal, unless you’re actually sitting completely in the dark (and yes, the screen counts as a light source) Ü

Also, as someone who also is awake most nights, I get the impression that it’s not particular healthy, i.e. is in conflict with our biology.

All other things being equal, eyes specialized on daylight activity will just be better at the kinds of intricacies needed for shaping the tools, collecting the right materials etc., mostly because night vision is pretty much greyscale for mammals. And would humans even be as likely to start using fire if they could see in the dark? It’s obviously still useful for preparing food, but IDK that I’d choose to place a beacon of light and smoke (smell) in the night if I could see without it.

I’d assume that humans used tools long before they started using fire, because making fire is far more involved than using simple tools. Though this might actually be worth looking up.

Tool use and being nocturnal are kind of a bad fit, so it’s hard to believe that humans would have evolved in a recognizable form if they had been nocturnal.

UKentry

I’d want to be as far away from US for-profit companies as possible, and Fedora is (afaik) the upstream for Red Hat’s commercial offerings. Though if Red Hat is turning full evil, Linux has a big problem anyway, considering that (afaik) they employ most of the people who (are paid to) develop the linux kernel, systemd and gnome.

Either way, replacing Microsoft with Red Hat (if the EU ends up using Red Hat’s support in some way) seems kind of unnecessary, considering that SUSE and Ubuntu are both European.

In 2025, Hansson published a blog post[30] expressing support for far-right British activist Tommy Robinson and the 2025 British anti-immigration protests. In response, members of the Ruby on Rails community called for his removal from project governance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Heinemeier_Hansson#Right-wing_politics_and_controversy

This is apparently also a big part of why the Ruby Gems controversy happened, one of its sponsors pulled out because they didn’t want to be associated with far righters, and then Shopify made its move to fill the gap and do a takeover.

I can’t quite imagine that the people on Omarchy’s team are unaware of this.

Well, have fun with your far right distro. I’m not going to trust such a central part of my life like my PC’s operating system with someone who is aligned with people who commit racist violence. Might as well send Trump my email password.

Hadn’t heard of Omarchy, sounds interesting …

Beautiful, Modern & Opinionated Linux by DHH*

Oh No

(Let’s be real, I’d never actually use an Arch derivative. Maybe worth checking out to steal the config.)

*the Ruby on Rails guy

Really nice list, though. e.g. I didn’t know that KaOS is completely its own thing and also doesn’t use systemd.