DiabolicalBird

It's always fun when there's a GUI tool for something (in my case, trying to set up wireguard with gnome) that just doesn't work, and all the posts online about it just say "yeah that's literally never worked, here's the cli command"

Or colour profiles for your monitor in Wayland, you can change them in the gui but nothing will ever apply.

I find myself having trust issues with Linux GUI tools as actually functioning seems to be optional. But the switches sure look pretty...

From my own experience with Lemmy, I can absolutely see why it's declining.

Lemmy is packed full of miserable people constantly calling for violence. 90% of the feed is packed full of US politics, it doesn't matter how many filters I use I still see that greasy orange cunt's face every time I open Lemmy.

The amount of hostility towards outsiders just getting into Lemmy is astounding, and I've absolutely seen the whole "quality over quantity" crap that only drives people away from the platform. The IT tech snobbery is also incredibly offputting to people who aren't tech enthusiests.

In short, Lemmy has a toxic shithead problem that a platform this small can't afford if it wants to survive long term.

Revolt has apparently been renamed to Stoat after being sent a cease and desist for the name

So, your solution to "ease onboarding" is to give newcomers more work? For a platform with far less content that's already confusing them with just signing up, let alone figuring out transfering or self hosting?

I think you VASTLY overestimate how many fucks people have to give, and also how tech literate the average person is. The average person can barely figure out how to change their web browser, and most really don't care about the awful shit big companies do.

This idea of yours would drive engagement through the floor and a respectable distance into the Earth's crust.

Ease of use should be the #1 consideration when it comes to onboarding people to something.

Because I'm not allowed in the morgue anymore.

Is it "working splendidly?" They're getting almost everything they want, so clearly it's working for them.

Been using the premium version of the launcher for years, absolutely love it. Won't use anything else at this point, I'm even starting to make my own full tile images

It's more fun than that, even if you get one there's no guarantee they'll be any good!

Gotta love doctors who ignore you and give you painkillers to make you go away, and can't read the bold text on forms you pay them to fill out.

How dare you say we can't be civil?! The fucking nerve!

(very, VERY big /S)

I did, it's a buggy undercooked mess that doesn't work half the time. The app that's officially supported is missing half the features. Trying to get people to switch to it is like pulling teeth as the onboarding process in overly complicated for the average user.

Meanwhile Signal works right out of the box with very little fuss.

I prefer getting my news from cryptic symbolism in my dreams

Good plan, I already had investment in VR before I went to Linux so I'm not really wanting to scrap all of it, you know?