Cass.Forest

Is it possible to develop a different UI without forking?

Trying to find a new place before my lease expires next month. Also trying to find a better job. So altogether, I’m doing.

What they attempted to claim was rights to it being performed on television (and similar). If I’m sitting at home, I can sing whatever song I want. I can sing the entirety of Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen and no one would care (except maybe my roommates and neighbors). It becomes an issue of copyright when someone tries to then use that creative work, whether that include lyrics or melody (often called the composition) or any part of the recording (called the master). The composition and the master could be owned by the same person/group, or it could not. It depends on the contract set up for the song.

Note: Obligatory IANAL, I’m just an independent musician who at least vaguely needs to know about this stuff for my creative work.

The downfall of Reddit has increased my usage of the Fediverse, namely Lemmy, but it has also reduced my usage of Twitter as I’ve moved to Mastodon. I barely used Reddit prior to the API announcement, but now I don’t want to use it at all. I still have Infinity downloaded on my phone which I intend to delete on the 30th.

ETA: I pretty much only use Twitter to promote content things I’m doing and that’s only because there are people still on Twitter.

I’m using Ubuntu with KDE Plasma. A while ago, Windows reset a lot of my system (thank the powers that be that my files stayed intact), and I decided that I was fed up with Windows and that I’d find a way to continue everything I was doing on Linux. At this point, I’m roughly 95% of the way there as I do own an Oculus Rift which only supports Windows (unless someone can point me to an article or forum post that says otherwise); I’d like to either get a Valve Index or a Quest, but I don’t currently have the money.

In any case, a friend of mine recommended a flavor of Arch that included KDE Plasma (I forget the name, might be Endeavour) but I was coming up with issues that a lot of programs I had wanted to use were only built for Debian/Ubuntu so I switched again. Lovely how with Linux you can switch distros so easily. So I flashed my computer with Kubuntu and I haven’t looked back since.

From what I remember, it had to do with the moderating decisions of the person behind Tildes.

I joined the Beehaw instance a bit ago with a small exodus from Tildes, another Reddit alternative. It’s been nice to see the community grow and grow steadily as time progressed, and seeing the Reddit refugees makes me hopeful for the platform’s strength going into the future regardless of what Reddit does with its API (or other features).

As for the toxic side of Reddit, I’m more concerned for the devs in having to deal with the reports, but as a Reddit mod myself, I don’t think it’ll be too bad. At least on Beehaw we have a supportive community and I’m reminded of a video talking about the userbase of the early UseNet and how they dealt with the first spammer (not necessarily their methods, but the fact that they rose up as a community to enforce a community rule). Hopefully we can see that here (i.e. “the report button exists”).

Edit: a detail

Brave on mobile and desktop

Ah, thank you for the clarification!

Is Lemmy.ml not the flagship instance? Or is it just one of the larger ones?