Thanks! :))

Usually because resources are limited, both financial and time, so people make do with what they can.

As projects grow, and as the FOSS alternatives improve, projects can switch over.

This browser extension “would allow Facebook users to automatically unfollow their friends, groups, and pages, and, in doing so, to effectively turn off their newsfeeds, which Facebook algorithmically sorts to drive user engagement,” the Knight Institute said in a statement.

Interesting, I’ve been doing that manually for a while now (not Facebook though, I haven’t opened that feed in years).

Here’s an article from 2021:

https://slate.com/technology/2021/10/facebook-unfollow-everything-cease-desist.html

My bad, I missed that one

I would say to just try it out and see how it is! The live USB works nicely and you can decide you don’t like a distro and move on rapidly. There are also tools out there that let you load up multiple distros on the USB at once, and then pick which one to use when you boot up.

I went through my own struggles with dual booting Linux some time ago. If you search on Lemmy, you can find those embarrassing posts. It was my fault, I got confident and messed with ‘grub’ in all the wrong ways, before cutting my losses early and reverting everything because I had other commitments to deal with.

The good thing though is that it’s totally possible to put Windows back 100% the way it was before, even after messing up as badly as I did (I couldn’t boot into either operating system because the machine couldn’t find the boot entry). Once you’re ready to replace windows with Linux (or dual boot etc.), make a good backup with something like Macrium Reflect and you should be safe to go for it. I highly doubt you’ll make the mistakes I did, the story is to say that you can mess up and be just fine!

As for your use case:

• affinity programs aren’t on Linux from what I remember, you might want to experiment and see if you can run it with Wine or if you have an alternative (ex. Dual boot, different programs)
• Not sure about Davinci, comments suggest that it runs ok on Linux. I like KdenLive

As for what people recommended, and what I’m planning to try soon

• Kubuntu (if you want Ubuntu that looks similar to windows)
• Fedora (what I tried last time)
• Linux Mint

I wasn’t sure myself honestly, thought I’d check if someone else brought it up first

I think people get super excited to share the good news that it’s not a company behind it and all the benefits that come with that

Yea the part I found weird was that it went “mother’s sibling” but also “father’s sister”, rather than “X’s sibling” or “X’s sister”

Why is there an “or” in there, how does that help?

Going by the releases, it didn’t need updates that often, but it still needed updates to fix and ensure compatibility as things changed

Security wise, I think you’re right

Looks like it’s open source, but very dead

• Sorting by new gets around 1-3 posts a day, site wide

• the top post of all time was 6 years ago and it was discussing the shut down of Voat

So while they might not have recent hate speech, it seems like that’s the community that started there. Sort by top all to see the context

It would need to keep up with future changes and any security updates

Hopefully the dev is doing well, and has luck with whatever he’s doing now

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misskey

My understanding is that Misskey is a lot older, from before the Fediverse and ActivityPub was a thing. It’s very popular in Japan, so it might not have as much content from other places.

Firefish (formerly known as Calckey) is an actively developed fork of Misskey that hopes to add many requested community features.

So firefish was started because Misskey development slowed (or stopped?), but it has had issues recently

https://fediversereport.com/an-uncertain-future-for-firefish/

Personally I would filter and only look at platforms that are open source and Fediverse/ActivityPub compatible. Otherwise it will suffer from similar issues as the other alternatives (centralization, lack of community/momentum, takeovers).

As long as the platform federates nicely then it really comes down to personal preference. The content and communities can grow independently :)

The platforms that come to mind for that are Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin, and Sublinks. I’m probably missing some other good ones

More of a productivity tool, similar to Notion if you are familiar with that. If you aren’t, I tried explaining some more here: https://lemmy.ca/comment/8843380

Good note, I will edit that in

I share this criticism, it’s got so many features that it gets confusing.

What I did was start with a single page, and then added more pages from that one (I think the / key should bring up options). Trying to understand everything before starting was impossible

I didn’t use Notion much myself, but I’m hoping that AnyType and AppFlowy can implement features that Notion hasn’t. That could get people to switch

What would help though is

• painless importing from Notion, for people that already built up a lot of content there

• guides on the specific changes, similar to what Windows/MacOS or Android/iOS have for people switching over

You can probably use it to do similar things, but it’s a different format. Everything exists in one place, so you’re not using it to open and save files externally (but you might be able to export individual pages as markdown).

For example, this post today is announcing that they have implemented collaboration. Until now, people would have been using it individually for personal notes and project management.

The main function I like is being able to make objects with custom fields, which I can then add information to and sort. I haven’t used it extensively yet, but I have friends that use Notion for quite a bit

Part of the problem is that I don’t know the extent of what people might use this kind of tool for. It’s a productivity tool that has docs, calendars, databases, and other tools, but people use it in very different ways. Some people use it for documentation, some use it for course notes / planning, some use it to make dashboards, etc.

There’s probably a better way to describe it that I’m not thinking of, so I might recommend checking out the website above until someone else comes along to give a better explanation.

Here’s how Wikipedia describes Notion

Notion is a freemium productivity and note-taking web application developed by Notion Labs, Inc. It offers organizational tools including task management, project tracking, to-do lists, and bookmarking. Additional offline features are offered by desktop and mobile applications available for Windows, macOS, Android, and iOS. Users can create custom templates, embed videos and web content, and collaborate with others in real-time.

Anytype meanwhile is a newer open source and self hosted alternative to the above. Better for privacy etc. There’s another open source project with a similar purpose called AppFlowy