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  • Where should I discuss "tagging" in websites?

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  • That is more of an argument involving the implementation of tags in general within the federation. But to answer your question:

    Let's say a group of people were to make a post on Mastodon with the tag #girls_night. How will all instances agree on the tag being correct?

    The simple answer is they won't. If a tag is contentious, it will be like any other drama between instances.

    It's the same for implementing tag hierarchy. Let's say there is a default setup. Then if a tag or a tree of tags is contentious, each instance can include or exclude as they see fit.

  • Where should I discuss "tagging" in websites?

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  • Two new tables for "tags" would be required. One for instance wide tags and one for community tags.

    a curated list of tags users can attach to their posts. The list of tags can be maintained by both admins and moderators allowing for each community to tailor tags to their specific needs.

    It's not what I was suggesting, but this should definitely be implemented for Lemmy.

    I'm talking about how some tags should directly relate to one another, and how this should not always be the case in vice-versa. The system I'm suggesting is less useful when you limit the scope of tags (as the RFC does), but you can't really do that for user-centric websites like Mastodon.

    I think I'll make an edit to clarify this in post.

  • Help on BTRFS setup

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  • "subvolume - cannot be snapshotted if it contains any active swapfiles"

    Make a subvolume only for the swapfile.

    has a chance to fragment

    This is true for all files. Is it a bigger problem for swap?

    has issues with hibernation (that I've personally encountered multiple times)

    This one I can't refute. How long ago did you have these issues?

  • Help on BTRFS setup

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  • Mount options also only take effect on the first mount of the device. Since it looks like you only have 1 btrfs device - only / needs the options, really.

    I didn't know this. Thanks!

  • Help on BTRFS setup

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  • Yeah it's supported. It's listed in the docs for btrfs and arch.

  • Thoughts on Post-Open Source?

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  • The fee could be really small but scale depending on factors like business size. Or there could be no fee outright for businesses smaller than a certain size.

  • Any Interesting (Not Disturbing) Podcasts?

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  • There are a lot of posts about this podcast. I'm listening to it now!

  • Thoughts on Post-Open Source?

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  • Well the question is, how would such a license look like? Or would it be a contract and not a license?

    I guess I should ask a lawyer these questions, but I wanted to see what others here thought about the idea.

  • Thoughts on Post-Open Source?

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  • Let's not be nihilist here. It's better to come up with solutions than to give up.

  • Thoughts on Post-Open Source?

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  • they only use Linux because it's free. Companies create hardware on Linux because it's free

    Companies use open source software because it's the cheapest option. It's all about margins.

    Nearly all of FOSS is funded by corporations whether you like it or not

    Yes, and FOSS can get a lot more funding if they charged companies even a little bit.

    So as long as it's cheaper to pay a fee to continue to use an open-source software than it is to hire a group of developers to produce and maintain the same thing, the idea is viable.

  • Thoughts on Post-Open Source?

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  • In my opinion, the issue is that a cell phone is such a free-software-hostile environment that arguably GPL software shouldn't "be allowed to" come into contact with it in any capacity if the spirit of the GPL were being upheld.

    How are phones free-software-hostile? I know IOS is, but Android not really. There's a list of open source Android distributions. Although not very good, they are viable.

    Actually, maybe making it a realistic possibility to drop in a recompiled replacement should be a part of the GPL. I remember people were talking about this decades ago

    It does feel out of place how that isn't in the GPL.

  • Thoughts on Post-Open Source?

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  • If current licenses have the problem that big companies just ignore the terms set out in the license, I wouldn't imagine making a new sort of license with different terms like "big companies have to pay to get the benefit of using Pots-Open Source software" is really going to work.

    It's more that they avoid the spirit of the licensing, not the terms (except Red Hat of course).

    I suppose you can split this into two separate arguments:

    • Swap from licenses to more enforceable contracts

    • Have companies pay open source devs

  • Thoughts on Post-Open Source?

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  • Yeah pretty much

  • Thoughts on Post-Open Source?

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  • If you had also read the article BTW you would have realized that spoilers: it's not about source code availability.

    You saw the first few paragraphs about the Red Hat drama and didn't read further.

    Reading the whole thing you'd realize it's a list of reasons why open source software hasn't become popular with the wider public, and his proposed solution to this.

    I just included the idea he is proposing, others can read the article to see his reasoning.

  • Anyone uses IRC? Why?

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  • I'll throw in an argument:

    Any company owned alternative can be seen as a bad idea. But what about open source alternatives?

    Unless you're using a "bells and whistles" irc client, you probably don't have chat logging. Replying to older messages isn't really an implemented feature either. People just say the name of the person they're responding to, but unless you have the chat history, you will be out of the loop.

    Compare that to Matrix which has all of this functionality. They're close to Discord in design, but open source. A lot more features are built-in the software, server side. All the while not carrying the proprietary baggage of Discord.

    These features are not "necessary" for communication, but I find them pretty darn useful. So I'm just stunned that other people are okay not having these features.

  • How have you personally found the Lemmy community compared to its competition and other social media?

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  • I am all for having more people, but being an obscure "site" is a good filter imo.

    The Voyager App has some bugs, but for what it is, I'm amazed by the polish.

    On Reddit, all I did was look at memes from the top subreddits, spending my day filtering through the vastly unfunny majority. It's also through memes that I kept up to date with the news.

    On Lemmy, I decided to not fall into that sort of doom scrolling again. I blocked all meme communities. I browse through "All" to find any obscure community that peaks my interest, block the ones that don't and add the ones that do to "Home" or "Favourites".

    This means my feed is much more curated than the slop I was ingesting on Reddit. I still doom scroll sometimes 😅, but it's better now than it was before, I think.

  • What's with all these hip filesystems and how are they different?

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  • Don't you need FAT 32 for compatibility?

  • What's with all these hip filesystems and how are they different?

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  • ext4 boot partition? Does that mean you have Coreboot, not UEFI?

  • Any Interesting (Not Disturbing) Podcasts?

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  • A lot of people have been recommending Blowback. I'm listening to it now!