As far as I know Zorin is FOSS, for what it's worth. It's mostly just bundled FOSS software with some slick themes and accessibility features, plus a few in-house system apps which they do seem to provide sources for.

They mention that it's open source on their website but they don't mention FOSS probably because the libre/gratis distinction is confusing for people.

Vegans don't have to only eat specially labeled vegan things, the only thing that qualifies a food as vegan is if it has no animal products in it. You can form a full vegan diet just from what you call "food food". Obviously you need variety though, and don't only eat rice.

mom-and-pop style datacenters

I find this wording very funny for some reason. I do wonder what a more-decentralized internet would look like though, rather than 90% of it being in the hands of a few megacorps.

The DTI are implied to be from the present, so it makes sense they haven't heard of her yet. The cops she's really a thorn in the side of are from even further in the timeline.

I do agree with Ada in broad strokes. The Fedipact is just a petition. Meta doesn't care if you sign it. And it's not binding either—you can sign it and end up changing your mind and federating anyway, or you can defederate without signing it (like Blahaj).

It's still interesting data though. It may not represent every instance's stance on Meta, but it does reflect the stances of those that sign, and suggest that they're more active in the discourse.

You're right on the money with it being about admins and not users, too. Users aren't even allowed to sign it, only mods and admins can.

It's hard to extrapolate too much just from this data, I think.

That said, my read on it: Mastodon is way bigger than any other fedi platform, and with popularity comes outsiders to fedi culture and politics and people who just don't care. Also, a lot of the big instances want to federate because they have more of a growth mindset, so they when they see Meta they just see more potential users.

It's interesting though that Mastodon is the platform that would be most affected by federation. We here on Lemmy don't have great interoperability with the microblog side of the fediverse, so we're less likely to see Threads activity.

Poor people should try wanting things more

Unlike Tor, which is built around accessing the clearnet anonymously, I2P is primarily designed around keeping traffic in the darknet. When you join I2P, you route traffic for other nodes but only within the I2P network, it will never leave through your clearnet address.

The equivalent of Tor's exit nodes are called "outproxies", but they aren't often used, there aren't very many of them, and you have to specifically set them up manually as it isn't the default behavior like it is for Tor.

This project uses mDNS, which is specific to the .local TLD. The whole reason that people are against the use of .local is because it would break mDNS. So you can set a custom TLD, but it doesn't matter because this is actually the correct context for .local to be used, and changing the TLD will actually break things for a lot of clients.

Well yeah, that's what pro contact means. Pro sexual contact. They don't think there's any inherent problem with sexual relationships between adults and kids.

"Pro contact" is just a polite way to say it, obfuscating what they're really talking about.

I'm so used to seeing damned bots spamming that everywhere, my half asleep ass immediately reached for the report button lol. It's just instinct now. Pavlov's Discord Nitro.

i3 will have lower requirements, since it's just a bare window manager. XFCE is about as lightweight as a fully featured desktop environment can get, whereas with i3 you have to bring your own tools.

Incidentally, you can use i3 as the window manager portion of XFCE if you want.

It kind of doesn't matter, but the moderation policies, local timeline, server uptime/admin skill, blocked instances, and the theoretical longevity of instances can vary widely between instances.

The plethora of "Baby's First Selfhost" servers don't make for good Lemmy instances for example, because they are likely to be mismanaged and there's a good chance they will disappear unexpectedly once the hype dies down in a couple months.

Or another example, you have servers that are essentially unmoderated and full of hate speech and illegal content, or heavily moderated servers that ban dissent and defed liberally, and everything in-between.