Looks like Skylight is app-only, no website.

Not the Internet, but rather the World Wide Web. The once-humble webpage has become such a complex stack of technologies that it’s impossible for small dev teams to make alternatives to the established web browsers.

Because I want to control my own computer. I had to pay for the device, so I should be treated as the owner, yet Microsoft and Apple act like they own people’s computers, and build software that treats the computer as property of those corporations.

I don’t like tinkering just to get stuff working, so I use more user-friendly Linux distributions, and it’s been very smooth.

https://sepiasearch.org/ is a multi-instance search for PeerTube.

It’s still useful. You can’t guarantee that someone will have access to an emoji picker. I don’t think it’s built-in to the DE I’m writing this comment in.

Thanks. I did try again a couple of days ago and it works now.

How do I actually use it? I have an account, but when I go to the site it only shows me my “account dashboard” - how do I actually see what people have been posting?

I’m talking about the software side of things. Generative “AI” seems to be a “brute force” approach to artificial intelligence - just throwing hardware at the problem instead of finding a better approach. Given the limitations of GenAI, it just feels crazy to keep going this way. Like a sunk-cost fallacy. These are just my thoughts though, not a real scientific analysis.

I have to doubt the cost efficiency too.

It’s strange that the concept of efficiency seems to have been abandoned. Is consumption of vast computing resources no longer seen as indication of a design flaw?

I wouldn’t. I would just describe the services people might be interested in. Users have specific needs they want services to provide. I would talk to them in terms of those needs.

As for why federation, just mention that you don’t need to create many separate accounts. For example, you can follow a PeerTube account from Mastodon.

Makes sense to do that on Reddit itself. If you’re posting on the equivalent platform I guess you are talking to people specifically looking for alternatives. I was thinking more about advertising on non-equivalent platforms, like Mastodon on YouTube, PeerTube on Reddit, etc.

Honestly I’m not sure how Reddit itself became so popular among people who never used old Internet forums like I did, so the Threadiverse is something I don’t have ideas for.

Firefox is a Chrome alternative, Linux is a Window alternative.

These are not inaccurate descriptions, but it makes them sound like inferior imitations and gives the impression that they’ll always be second best. It is also a kind of free-advertising for Chrome/Windows.

“A cool new place to share links and discuss things”? Or just “a cool new social media”?

Honestly, I think the best way to bring people is simply to reference (link, screenshot and mention) it elsewhere, so that people realise it’s already established and not just a work in progress.

When we put too much effort into persuasion, it can come across as desperate, which makes people distrustful.

Sharing Fedi content on non-Fedi media seems like it could help. Linking a PeerTube video, or sharing a screenshot of a Mastodon comment (preferably an intelligent one, not a drama-baiting one) could help. Although the direct linking could be difficult since we don’t want to overwhelm anyone’s instance.

Upvotes/downvotes are unfortunately a fundamentally flawed concept. They originally served as an superior alternative to forums’ previous sorting method of most-recently commented, but they are far from flawless themselves.

My ideal alternative would be some kind of customisable sort order chosen by the user that uses some kind of sentiment analysis of the text to find the kind of posts the user is interested in. For example, you could sort by whether post look serious or joking, how long they are, ratio of words to hyperlinks, etc. Could also filter out ragebait and similar rubbish.

Of course I can see downsides - performance considerations, and it would only work for text posts and comments, but it’s just an idea off the top of my head.

Since anyone can create their own subreddit and become a mod there, does this mean that anyone can look at these profiles?

But why do people want their text editors to do completely unrelated tasks? Genuine question.

I’m curious - what are the advantages of using Bazaar to install Flatpaks as opposed to just installing Flatpaks via the Software Manager in Linux Mint, or equivalent in other OSs.

I just found out I can treat PieFed as an app on android (via Firefox), but the bars at the top and bottom seem to be stuck in light mode even though the phone is in dark mode. Is there a solution?