Thanks. I was looking for something like this.

I just made one at !fossart@infosec.pub ... but your's looks better.

I just made a more generic community for the topic of FOSS art and design. Please join if interested. I hope it will turn into something.

!fossart@infosec.pub

I'd rather have a Krita community... or better yet.. a graphics design one. Or at least an adobe one so the rest of the suite can be included. I wonder if we're not making communities too detailed for the current state of the system?

Truly. Most web search engines, including google, are mostly useless these days if you don't already have a good idea where to look or it is a very common search.

You use to be able to click down a bunch of pages till what you were looking for turns up. But now after you go down a few pages it just starts repeating and it is all mostly big tech sites.

important gmail account

lol..... irony..

I once bought a metal wash tub, put it on my porch, added sand, rocks, plants, fish and water... and called it a pond. It is pretty easy to do.

Anything that will hold water for a couple weeks will have tadpoles in it pretty quick.

There have been a few stories about some companies getting punished for not going along with this plan of selling this private information. Like I think Qwest for example. This was over a decade ago, so I don't remember all the details that clearly.

I think most of them I'd be using on windows as well. Like blender, gimp, krita, librewolf, libreoffice, thunderbird, virtualbox, etc.. etc.. etc.. Although it was 15 years ago I had switched to mostly open source applications in the years prior to eventually switching to linux entirely.

If we're including those then I think we have gone full circle and are back in the safe waters of protocols

It doesn't look that unique.

Reddit sheds a few million of its active users but the API changes and death of third-party apps don’t completely kill the site because now it’s pretty mainstream and a lot of people actually don’t give a shit about Apollo, RIF, etc.

A few million is plenty to make lemmy a comparable community. As that continues more and more people who didn't move in previous years will move now, because there are enough people here to make it worthwhile.

I think the main difficulty of a site replacing Reddit is that Reddit clones are now a-dime-a-dozen.

Which makes a federated system like lemmy even more competitive.

I've given lemmy a try 3-4 times over the last couple years. And I think that presently it is getting fairly close to a big enough crowd that is very usable and is comparable to what reddit was like in 2008 when I switched from Digg.

To be honest. Lemmy doesn't need to out compete reddit or whoever. It just needs to be competitive. Not having the brain dead mainstream masses over here is not a loss. However, people have always moved to the platform with more liberty when most other aspects are the same. Otherwise reddit would never have been a thing. Most people were over at Digg for a reason. They only moved to reddit when Digg gave them enough reasons to leave.

Then I will definitely go. Their new version is as bad as what digg is now. I could never use that.