I am a pretty heavy “Fediverse user” (Mastodon + Lemmy/Kbin) and my feeds have VERY little Linux talk. There is an incredibly diverse set of folks on the ‘verse but admittedly discoverability is hard. If the only people in your circle are Linux nerds then that’s all that might be boosted into your timeline. Put some effort into finding other folks and unfollow some of the Linux-only voices :-).
Getting really tired of this "the fediverse needs to cater to normie interests because we're here now and it's what we deserve" attitude. If you can't find a community to click with, you can always create one, join one you don't know much about with an open mind, or don't use the fediverse if it doesn't have the content you like. Sorry to say it but you're not special and no existing users on any social media platform is obligated to go out of their way to make you feel comfortable on the platform.
Same with the "your open source, community developed platform/client sucks! I demand you make the UX better because I the user deserve better! No I'm not going to donate to your development fund because you suck and need to be better before you deserve my money!" sentiments that I see on Lemmy more and more now. Seems like everyone just expects corporate level user experience and customer service from people developing open source software mostly for free as passion projects. Even after the numerous corporate boondoggles that drove people to the fediverse in the first place people aren't the slightest bit willing to change their paradigms regarding how social media should be run.
Self hosting, at least for lemmy, is absolute trash. I have been told a few times when asking questions that, "it is expected that you are thoroughly experienced with Linux" to be able to follow the mediocre guides. And they are trash if you are a newbie.
So people like me, who would love to use Lemmy for non Linux things, am posting almost entirely about Linux problems.
Used Ubuntu Linux for a year back around '08-'09. Didn't have a great experience and went back to Windows. Since then I've never had a reason to try it again. That said, I've nothing but respect for those that use a flavour of Linux or Mac OS. At the end of the day doing the things you need done is what matters and if a different OS than mine gets you there, that's awesome.
I mean, do the people at the fediverse really talk mainly about Linux? I see in both Lemmy and Mastodon more people talking about US politics, LGBTQ+ stuff and furrys (lmao) than anything related to technology in general. I guess the kind of content someone sees would depend a lot on the instance someone creates their account in?
I honestly am glad to see so much linux stuff
That's interesting I've been on Mastodon for just over a year and nobody has mentioned Linux yet.
That sounds like a skill issue.
Block those communities and subjects you don't want in your feed.
I don’t get it. I am on sh.itjust.works and yes I see the odd Linux post, but not so many that it stands out. I am even on many tech subscriptions. This seems overblown.
Too bad I can't hear you over my sway setup
I'm really lazy and use regolith, is that bad?
Just like how Linux takes up 75% of the adoption rate?
I mainly only use Linux with my SteamDeck now, but I’ve made use of it at various other times in the past, so I’m semi-familiar with it. Kind of the same boat though, I’ll see memes about it and I’m just like “Heh hehe heh…” ¯_(ツ)_/¯ “I don’t get it.”
This is like moaning that a Metallica concert is full of metalheads. The fediverse is built off Linux type ideology. So of course we flock here.
If you don't like us make your own community or leave.
I have pretty minimalistic setup.
Three dropdown terminals, managed by a bash script: top for quick commands, left and right for nvim.
Bar is i3bar, with a custom status program written in Nim language (can display any command output with conditional colors).
Your Android phone runs Linux.
Dun dun dun.
So it wasn't just me? I felt like lemmy was 10 times more active than reddit since i switched bc im mainly interested in linux. That should mean most of reddit doesnt care about linux then :/
Totally depends on the instance. There are definitely furry communities here in Lemmy and they definitely feel lonely. But I have heard of some furry mastodon instances that actually are lively and active. No idea if they actually are since I don't have a clue why I can't access my mastodon account, let alone what instance I signed up on.
But active non-Linux, non-Star Trek meme groups definitely are a thing, despite how small they are.
I love Dwm, what about you ?
This is always the first thing I get set up:
# focus next available workspace on this outputbindsym $mod+q exec --no-startup-id ws=$(i3-msg -t get_workspaces | jq '.[] | select(.focused) | .num') && ofs=$(i3-msg -t get_outputs | jq 'map(select(.active)) | length') && i3-msg workspace $(($ws-$ofs))
bindsym $mod+w exec --no-startup-id ws=$(i3-msg -t get_workspaces | jq '.[] | select(.focused) | .num') && ofs=$(i3-msg -t get_outputs | jq 'map(select(.active)) | length') && i3-msg workspace $(($ws+$ofs))
# move window to next available workspace on this outputbindsym $mod+Shift+q exec --no-startup-id ws=$(i3-msg -t get_workspaces | jq '.[] | select(.focused) | .num') && ofs=$(i3-msg -t get_outputs | jq 'map(select(.active)) | length') && dest=$(($ws-$ofs)) && i3-msg move workspace $dest && i3-msg workspace $dest
bindsym $mod+Shift+w exec --no-startup-id ws=$(i3-msg -t get_workspaces | jq '.[] | select(.focused) | .num') && ofs=$(i3-msg -t get_outputs | jq 'map(select(.active)) | length') && dest=$(($ws+$ofs)) && i3-msg move workspace $dest && i3-msg workspace $dest
Works with sway if you replace i3-msg with swaymsg (and remove --no-startup-id, since it's not needed for Wayland).
Edit: ampersand issues, trying quote instead of code block
hmmmm