It’s not the reason, but it certainly is a reason.

Another reason is. That it is an old protocol from the late 90s. And there isn’t a lot of Buzz about it these days. A lot of the problematic centralization we all now recognize was just becoming the norm.

Feature parity at the time is also another big hurdle. Things we all take for granted especially in this day and age Avatar profile pictures etc. Jabber/xmpp did not have that for years. It may be a useless feature in terms of sending messages. people still like personalization etc. And it’s hard to convince people to switch if they have to give it up.

Jump to today. And arguably services like Twitter Mastodon Facebook Etc all sort of fill that Niche to an extent. Maybe not as well. But enough again that it’s going to be hard to get people to switch to yet another system

That and it speaks to a lack of maturity and professionalism which doesn’t inspire confidence in the project.

There’s no need to hurt the devs for sure though. They do that well enough on their own.

The problems with the Lemmy developers though is plain on the face of it. Problematic political and social positions. And then demanding that donations must go towards furthering those problematic political and social positions. Because they think they found this one weird trick that nobody can argue with. Their Flagship server is the political server. It’s not lemmy.org after all.

Not to mention that the admins of the server moderate more than most the moderators on the server. There is no free speech. It doesn’t matter how moderate or respectful you are. If you go against the narrative you will be banned.

Development wise they are also vanguard minded. Does the userbase want features the devs aren’t working on? That’s too bad. The devs are going to work on what they want to work on. Whether or not that’s a good thing. Which can sometimes it can be. It also has led to a number of people reluctant to contribute. The childish cliquesh behavior.

You’re not always going to agree with the politics and views of the people who write the software you use. And that is okay. But when they mix the two it’s not wrong to have issues with that.

I’ve already created an account on a piefed instance. Planning for the future. I’m sure Voyager will get it sorted.

It’s in the readme. Several comments above this and around this all mention it. You can search for it and you will find it.

Dei really shouldn’t be considered politics of course. It should just be a part of being a decent person. But those who persecute others or don’t care about the persecution of others at least. Always have to put on a show to make everything about them. How acknowledging traditionally excluded people is somehow an attack or imposition on them

Being left or right doesn’t make you good or bad. There are plenty of reasonable right-wing groups. However few to none of them identify as right wing. The Democrats in the United States for instance. A staunchly, solidly right-wing group. That most people somehow mistakenly think are left wing.

No, the people desperate to identify themselves with vagaries such as left or right. Almost without exception are some of the worst most horrible people you’ll ever meet. Only trying to deny the failures of their ideas, or deflect from the horrible things they want to do to others. Leninists and fascists are both Prime examples of this.

Anyone who talks or acts like DEI is a problem is a clown who deserves to be ridiculed. Its possible to have substantive nuanced criticism of DEI. Left or right. But DEI isn’t the problem. The people whining about it typically are.

100%. Not just controversial but childish. It’s completely poetic karma that they’ve become a minority in their own network. Repeating the same patterns that got them exiled elsewhere. Basically doing it all again. Having learned nothing.

Yep, literally 🌍👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

They wouldn’t get harassed if they minded their own business and stopped harassing others.

Look at out this way. Either they are desperate. Or were significant enough to bother spamming?

Lemmy.ml and programming.dev likely have the instance blocked due to its history with right-wing trolls. World does not. Therefore it works here. Lemmy ml doesn’t like the competition. Programming.dev doesn’t like the drama

Many. They are considered a spiritual successor to the right-wing troll instance of explodingheads.com. just consider for a moment. Which a group of people think causing chaos is hilarious?

Have you tried Picard? For tagging under Linux there’s hardly a better easier app

Yes it is minimally at least in spirit the successor to the Centos distribution. Though if you are new to linux. Something like mint would probably be a better starting point. The nice thing about Centos and Rocky though. Are that their long-term support is some of the best. And for things like DaVinci resolve. They are one of the few distributions technically supported by the developer. You can get resolved on other distributions. They just aren’t officially supported.

The main system I run on is a 6th gen i7, 4 cores, 8 threads. 16gb ddr4 with a second hand AMD 5400 with 4gb vram. If you’re doing 3d. Which I assume you are, vram will likely be the first hard wall you might hit. If your scene takes up more than the total vram of your system your speeds will likely crater or crash outright. After that your system Ram is the next big determiner. 3D scenes can be very data intensive. Even if you have a video card with tens of gigabytes of vram. If you have to transfer small chunks through your system Ram to get it there it’s still going to slow it down. After that a CPU is important. But less so than you might think. Rendering you are going to prefer to do on your GPU or APU. It is exponentially faster than doing it on the CPU alone. Though modern blender allows you to use both at once. As well as multiple graphics cards.

Honestly just about anything from the last 10 years is an okay starting point.

You and I often disagree. But not today. Well said.

Ah, yes yes that old chestnut. Everyone else is the problem not you. People have legitimate problems with your instance and its administrators. Don’t pretend for a moment that if server focused on a different authoritarian ideology opposed to yours was the host. That you wouldn’t object either, despite the hypocrisy. You’re on Lemmy.ml not Lemmy.org. At least the rest of us can be consistent in our stance.

If the instance is focused around defending and enabling our fascists. Then everyone should object the same. That it just exists in the US isn’t the same thing and besides the point.

Yes. I mean I’m going to take them at their word. Making themselves look foolish doesn’t have any direct benefit to them realistically here. And them adding their voice to the already existing chorus isn’t a bad thing. But just how abjectly have we failed as a society. That our fourth estate, education system, Etc has allowed for this sort of thing. Deeply of course, the question was always rhetorical. Very very deeply.

What?! Just… what!? They joined a fascist attack because they thought they could do some good enabling it?! I truly don’t understand this thought process.

But it is the Mexico. Unlike other mexicos. Looking at you new mexico.

Though you are absolutely right. And it’s more than just things like that which are normalized through innocuous seeming language.