I use the XFCE version, it’s around 400 MB idle, fluxbox should be even less I think.

I work for a big enterprise, we have RHEL on all our Linux servers save for a few that are SuSe for SAP.

Microsoft Teams is the official communication tool for business where I work, no need to use whatsapp tho a few colleagues use it for fluff, as for personal/family, some of my family use whatsapp but I don’t (I use Discord), if we want to talk to each other we use “good old-fashioned” phone calls :D

The concept of having to compile something yourself is basically foreign to me

There’s no need to, what software do you need that you can’t find on Mint repositories?

having to basically rely on a built-in app database/store to easily install apps… Kinda stinks to me, and not being able to simply download an installer from a website and having the program, whatever program, up and running reliably within a minute, the concept seems ridiculous

Having an app repository is way more secure than downloading software from random websites, it’s also way faster.

But it’s fine if you don’t like it, each person has its own preferences.

Very well said, it must have not been easy at all with the huge and sudden influx of people, but everyone did (and is still doing) a fantastic job in keeping lemmy a beautiful place to be.

No, but it’s highly unlikely since before it’s been buttered it doesn’t know yet which side to fall upon.

Have a look at this explanation

If you want to know more, here’s a starting guide

You’re not missing anything by not using apps, as other people said, many people came here because reddit apps stopped working and they’re looking for replacements.

I never used apps on reddit, old.reddit on desktop was by far the best experience for me, I don’t intend to use apps on lemmy either.

I was thinking the same, especially after seeing several posts “demanding” Lemmy to change this and change that.

I mean, that’s not to say there’s no room for improvements, but if the first thing some people do when going to a new platform is wanting changes to meet their personal way of doing things, instead to try and adapt first to how the platform works and learn from it, in my opinion it means those people are not really interested in being here and make lemmy succeed, they’re just following the “flavor of the month” and won’t last long here anyway.

I think the fediverse being not so intuitive might be a very good thing actually, it can act as a sort of filter so it doesn’t succumb to the masses ruining everything, hopefully.

It wasn’t Windows, as someone else already explained, but yeah general media spread misinformation as usual when it comes to technology.

I work in IT and I was there, it was a serious problem that, if not fixed, would have indeed ended up in worldwide disaster, but we knew exactly what it was many years earlier, and exactly how to fix it, and we did so nothing actually happened obviously.

Media spread fear for nothing, instead of accurately reporting the situation and all the hark work IT people were doing all over the world to make sure everything would be fine.

Please no, I didn’t quit reddit to have reddit around me again.

People keep coming up with smarter and smarter way to protest, I love it!

It’s most probably IBM forcing it, but yeah it’s dumb.

That’s stupid, I mean, cat nets are basically invisible from down the street, I have one on my balcony, your neighbors complained just for the sake of it, well done anyway! :D

That doesn’t explain why John Oliver was chosen tho.

You can also add your personal text in a text box when you create link posts, another thing you can’t do in reddit.

Ooh they changed them :O What …

As I understand it, API charges are for everyone, Apollo for example showed the app is within the limits, I think other app devs did the same.

While not wanting their data to be scraped for AI for free is indeed a valid reason, if it was the real reason they would have come up with different tiers of pricing like every other paid platform does.

Edit: Apollo was within the limits, but reddit changed the rules apparently …

I answered the one asking what happened.

Anyway, I get it’s temporary, I’m not a mod but if they say better tools are needed, I believe them.

better moderation of the offending instances.

What does that mean?

Do they expect lemmy.world admins to police 25K people across 700+ servers? I don’t think that’s how it works.

Or do they mean that they reported harassers to our admins and they didn’t do anything about it?

Apparently some idiots from here think it’s fun coordinating a troll-attack on them and they don’t have enough mod power to deal with it, so they removed their connections with us and sh.itjust.works.