+1 for k9. Lightweight nd functional.

Sometimes it feels like I’m the only one using geany. Nice to see it mentioned.

The truth that is hard to swallow…

We are techy people who enjoy the concept of the fediverse, but the general public will never use it if it doesn’t become simple and straightforward.

After using different distros for more than 10 years, I reached a never imagined level of not caring anymore. Nowadays, I use any of them, and it’s fine. I don’t even care to change the wallpaper or tweak most settings anymore.

For the record, I’m using fedora on my main rig, mx linux on my low-end laptop, and armbian on my orange pi board.

It’s not the services that are dying, but the internet as we used to know.

Change is natural, but the services are all changing in a way not beneficial forthe users.

Are three any factual evidence of that?

This is a real problem. Ans they don’t realize it just push people into using adblock, which, in turn, reduce their revenue and push them into more aggressive adds, which push even more people into using adblock…

If the content was paid, a lot of countries would simply be excluded from the internet.

Unfortunately, for most sites, using ads in the only viable alternative. I think we are so fast to reject ads, instead of finding ways to make non invasive ones. A balanced use of ads could make the web free and readable.

Mind if I ask what makes you believe that federated social media will replace the mainstream ones? Literally everyone around me, everywhere I go, have no clue about any social media besides the big ones. I tried introducing mastodon to a few, but they found it harder to use.