Venia Silente

Has both a piracy and a privacy community, which is nice and probably leads to fun mishaps / mistypings. It’s pretty lean to federate to and fro as well, same with the UI.

Just about the only negative I can consider is their position pro AI, but I can live with that, the world is pretty close to the end anyway.

1. No. There is no particular reason why there needs to be one (say) twitter alternative. Heck, there is not even a reason why there should be a alternative. Fediverse is allowed to be their own things.
2. But each site already has their front page. See eg.: lemmy.dbzer0.com. Alternatively if you meant “each software”, that’s more-or-less what join-lemmy.org is doing.
3. No but yes.
4. I’m not sure that leads to where you think it leads to. That would require authenticating users financially, for one, else it becomes a dark pattern magnet for suckpuppeting.
5. Mostly absolutely yes. I think I’ve seen it discussed a few times under “fediverse identity” or something like that.

As a former lemmeezen, RIP, F, it was a good trip, quite decent service, but now it’s time to spread out.

db0 is being nice so far, and I even got an account on my country’s lemmy.

AI is much like smoking (hey, it is killing the atmosphere! ). Even if a good writer uses it, the usage itseld can still cause harm for others.

Oh it’s for the correct sound distinction. Compare naïve vs naive (eg.: glaive).

I’d take it part of the problem is that publisher is quite a “unglorious” job to say somehow. Like, it’s difficult to make it look fancy or interesting enough that you’d take effort, time and resources from other things you could be doing - such as, ya know, writing the story you want to write - to have to do that.

Cute, but we all know the only way these writers are going to get what they want is if they part ways from their current publishers and start a coöperative.

I’m a simple person, I see DokuWiki and I install it some plugins. Easy to self-host on a cheap VPS (no database required!) or on your own machine (if you have access to eg.:Docker). But that’s more for a general wiki kind of thing, useful but not specialized like having tools aimed for worldbuilding.

Haven’t checked any of the offerings here but I’m told by a couple fellows that they’ve had decent story with Hammer. Would probably start looking there.

Could have been quite cool advertising. “FOSS helps solve murders; Microsoft / Google / Facebook helps commit them.”

Hmmm, I’m trying to like it but apparently there’s something wrong going on with their delivery pipeline.

The last release is dated 2025-05-01. By that time there were already issues with subtitles and currently in that release version no subtitles load at all. The tracker to that issue is this one which marks as “solved” yet that certainly is not the case. At the very bottom they say you have to go to “nightly” - that is go to Github actions and select one among those labelled “build” and download the desired artifact. Meaning, a fix has not actually been released.

However I’ve visited six different runs of nightlies under “Build” and they do show the artifacts, but they are just a table of text, with no links or uploads. So,

1.- How is one able to download such artifacts? 2.- Why is the issue marked as “solved”?