Someone please lead a Great Linux Crusade across the wall.

Anyone from that side of the world? I wonder why their Windows usage is so high.

Guys, instead of a popularity contest, it’d be more productive if we listed the reasons for choosing one or another.

thanks for the update!

That’s unfortunate. I understand the admin’s perspective, but most users, myself included, are likely in the dark about these backend issues. It’s frustrating to have barriers to following people in an already small community. Is this just the inevitable tradeoff of federation? If anyone knows of a less regulated piefed instance, I’m all ears.

does anyone know why fosstodon seems to be blocked on piefed.social?

I’m desperate for a community driven review system for open source. We’re drowning in vibe-coded slop, and I honestly don’t have the time or a good slop detector to audit every tool I download. I know I should be checking under the hood, but the sheer volume of low-quality projects makes it impossible to keep up

The company that injected crypto referral codes into your links, if someone needs more convincing.

It’s been hard to find good websites in top results of search engines. A lot of them are very well SEO tuned AI slop.

AI is turning humans into a service, an on-demand API. Things are getting weird, fast.

Doesn’t Nvidia have $5bi stakes of intel? I wonder how that influences their decisions.

Two hits in the UK? It’s getting a bit toasty in here.

I’ve always been mildly interested in VR, but never wanted to invest in a data collector from Facebook. Maybe Valve can make me buy one of these.