@vwbusguy @ikkeT I've been doing a lot of experimenting with Raspberry Pi lately, and when I have a failed project, I just reimage rather than try to untangle the hundreds of packages I installed along with all the config files.

I don't know how to handle this kind of thing on a production server. Alter #scale20x, the answer seemed to be #Kubernetes.

@vwbusguy @ikkeT Flooding the system with packages always makes me nervous. Flatpaks and Distrobox are core to my current Debian system.

@vwbusguy Out of curiosity, what benefits are you looking after in #Silverblue? I see lot of mentions of it, but I've never used it. Sounds complicated for daily use. Makes me want to try it somewhere for a moment...

Interestingly, the concept of a Fediverse is as old as Star Trek itself. It’s not a new idea. Just like Star Trek, the idea started in the 1960s.

In the 1960s, United States Department of Defense launched Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET).

ARPANET was a network of federated nodes that communicate with each other over vast distances.

Amusingly, in early memoranda, ARPANET was described as the “Intergalactic Computer Network”.

The idea was simple. If you have three computers, rather than having three separate sets of commands, have one set of commands that would enable conversation across the three computers.

And as more computers join the network, each which would have access to the same set of commands, the usefulness of the shared connectivity would increase.

Here’s an early map of what ARPANET looked like.

#LearnFediverse

I forget how far along #Akkoma and #Pleroma are in terms of features.

@smitten No, this has nothing to do with “federating better” nor has it to do with “higher quality” replies.

It has to do with reply guys busting into threads without context, many who don’t bother reading threads before commenting.

This isn’t a federation problem. It’s a social discovery problem.

Ironically, if you slowed down and read my entire post prior to commenting, you would know this.

@vwbusguy @ikkeT @gnuplusmatt Essential features in #Distrobox include the ability to set a custom home directory and create a desktop launcher.

@ikkeT @gnuplusmatt Toolbox on Silverblue is much more useful than the weird one shipped in RHCOS. There's also #Distrobox which essentially does the same thing but supports a much wider variety of platforms where toolbox is Red Hat specific.

Just registered on #Calckey and I am really impressed.

It looks overall much more “federated” than #Mastodon. Is there any way to migrate an account from Mastodon to calckey? Does it make sense?

It’s really weird to be using something #fediverse related that isn’t #Mastodon, haha. I do quite like #Calckey. 😊

One of the more noticeable aspects of calckey.social vs Mastodon servers I’ve tried is people seem to be more responsive and chatty. Is that a side effect of features or community? #calckey #community #mastodon

Some tech bro skeptics: #Fediverse is unsustainable because no one wants to host it and it's not #Twitter. Find me on #BlueSky.

#Fediverse people: Have you seen #Calckey yet? I just spun up an instance over the weekend adjacent to my #Mastodon and #Pixelfed instances! This is so cool!

@risottobias I think Elixir based would be the go-to. Easy to install because of OTP distribution, and resource efficient. So Akkoma most likely. I haven't learned much about GoToSocial though, Go has a lot of the same benefits so that would be worth looking into.

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