Naho_Zako

I had issues on Fedora, but it was solved by doing a power reset. Apparently when you get a kernel update you have to do that. All that troubleshooting and researching was useless lol. I just wish I knew that was the issue, and not my hardware, cause I almost bought a Bluetooth dongle.

I started daily driving a year ago with Fedora Silverblue (Atomic) which uses GNOME because people said Atomic distros are friendlier to beginners, and Fedora already had a good reputation for working fairly well out the box. The only issue I had was a Bluetooth issue, and you can rollback to previous kernel versions to wait until a fix is made. If I was just a browse the internet and play games on Steam kind of person, I think I would have loved it. But I did try to tinker and do things that were far to difficult to figure out how to change on an Atomic distro, especially since I couldn’t find instructions or documentation for my distro, so I moved to regular Fedora KDE after a few months and I absolutely love it.

No annoying pop-ups, no stalking, no weird shit being enabled by default, just an OS that does what YOU want it to do. I am comfortable with using the terminal due to taking a Linux course, but I feel that you could do a lot without having to use it. Plus, most sites and github projects give you basic installation guides anyway. The only two issues I have had were Bluetooth and my touchpad not working. The solution for these two issues were simple, but I couldn’t find the information for literal months. I solved the Bluetooth issue by doing a power reset, apparently you have to do that when you get a kernel update. The touchpad issue was it disabled itself in the system settings one day. That’s literally it. My computer hasn’t blown up, my mic and camera always work, I have found FOSS alternatives for almost everything, I don’t game much on laptop but I’ve gotten old Japanese 32-bit games to work on Lutris, etc.

Maybe I’ll distro-hop in the future, but it’s only for the pure curiousity and fun, not out of necessity or broken tech. In fact, Linux just makes tech fun. It makes my laptop feel brand new, and makes me go “Wow. I love using technology.”

The only reason I still have my Windows partition is because my college uses Lockdown Browser for online tests, and I don’t want to fuck up a no-retakes test or do testing in person. Once I graduate, I’m probably nuking that partition, I feel like barfing every time I boot into it.

I also use Libre Office for college. If your professor allows it try submitting a pdf of a document instead of converting to .docx. Documents generally suck as a file type, and so I’ve had many professors take only .pdf for submission due to formatting issues.

TL;DR: Misskey/Sharkey is our best bet, but network effect exists and I’m sad because I want more artists.

Honestly, I used Amino forever ago in middle school so I have no idea what it looked like before it died, but I feel like the closest Fediverse comparison of it’s functionality would be Misskey/Sharkey. It has a sleek UI that has a text and media focus (blog style), polls, offers chats (I think), reaction emotes, etc. You could totally make an instance around Anime/Games/Movies/whatever in general, or do focused communities on a specific media, like this Splatoon-themed Japanese Misskey server I used to visit, ikaskey.bktsk.com. I use Aria as a mobile app for Misskey/Sharkey and it’s not too bad, although the webUI for Misskey/Sharkey is truly beautiful and engaging. Threadiverse is too forum focused to truly count as a Amino replacement imo, but none of Fediverse truly fits with how Amino ran (for good reasons lol, we’re a federated social media, they weren’t).

The only issue with Fediverse anything is truly just the network effect. I have a Sharkey account at Sakurajima.social that I barely use because I just can’t find the people I want to follow. Same for my Pixelfed.art account and my Urusai.social (mastodon) account that I have following the mastodon.art instance. Federation kills a lot of interaction too, like not seeing another instance’s posts yet, or trying to like something and it failing to do so, or when you have to pull them up on their local instance. Misskey probably has most of the active artists, but you have to usually know Japanese (I am learning at least), use a VPN since foreginers are banned (and VPNs might not work), and then they defederate with most English instances anyway. Tbf Misskey did start as a Japanese made service, so that’s why it’s like that.

There are so many artists that I wish would at least move to Bluesky and use bridgy fed so I could see them, but most are sticking with Twitter and Instagram because they don’t want to have to move their followers. Fediverse doesn’t have the numbers, and we’re so tech/political focused that it’s hard to advertise ourselves. I check some of the anime communities here, but it’s mostly just posting news about upcoming anime, some borderline empty discussions (about anime I don’t watch unfortunately), and memes. I can’t even find communities focused on individual games and media I like, and of the ones that do exist, they have months between posting times.

So cool! I never even thought about what software VTubers were using to do body tracking, and that does sound a little concerning to have in the hands of companies. Plus it can help indie VTubers start without having to spend as much.

Maybe I can beg artists from instagram and twitter to migrate/post to fediverse with this. Looks awesome, thanks!

It’s based off a joke about Tumblr banning porn and nudity. We Allow Female-presenting Nipples. It makes it memorable and instantly loveable to me, and I think most of the people who lived through the Tumblr porn exodus to Twitter would chuckle.