Ninmi

@Ninmi@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best thing about Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  It's overall a very strong asset to fediverse in general. I've personally wanted FOSS, federated last.fm and Reddit alternatives, and @dessalines@lemmy.ml and @nutomic@lemmy.ml are doing a great job at bringing one of my dreams to life.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Terminal emulator features and compatibility⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  One column that should be added is IME support. Kitty, for example, is a very capable terminal emulator, but has big issues with Chinese/Korean/Japanese input, rendering it unusable for a large portion of petential users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there any open source music streaming app? From F-Droid or even Aurora⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  One possibility is to just use NewPipe. You can listen to the audio sources of YouTube videos, but you can also listen and search Soundcloud.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it possible to change ones username on Lemmy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe username changes are impossible due to how federation works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why this app is so political?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  The developers actually do a pretty good job of keeping politics out of the app itself and in the lemmy.ml instance instead, so the title of this post is quite misleading.

  One thing people need to understand that lemmy.ml is not inteded to be a generalist flagship instance (like mastodon.social is to Mastodon), even if it's maintained by the lead developers of the project.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Discord combines a lot of use cases in to one package. You get voice chat, modern chatrooms, video sharing/streaming, direct messages, group messages/calls etc.

  But more importantly it operates on a paradigm where a user joining a server means you join all the channels automatically, and access to certain channels can then be revoked or gated instead of granted. This is the exact opposite of what, for example IRC had done (and what Matrix/Element still does to a large extent), and it fosters communities as one group of people can have an n amount text/voice channels dedicated to different conversational topics. This is very useful, even if it's just for a friend group of 5 people. It is no wonder FOSS projects use Discord when it is so useful for it.

  Ironically, What Discord does would work incredibly well as a decentralized system. I cannot believe it's taking this long for the FOSS community create an alternative.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago⁩:

  Rather than trying to persuade people to use either incompatible or insufficient alternatives, we must call people to arms and actually create an alternative. Matrix/Element is getting very close and we need more poeple improving the ecosystem.

  Element still needs a UX overhaul and voice channels and the basic building blocks are already there then.