Richard

As many others have already said, Lemmy is fully indexable by search engines. In fact, in this very community there have been posts about Lemmy content being above other results from more prominent sites like Reddit for certain topics.

What? There is no “Fediverse objection” to indexing by search engines. Who told you that? Lemmy is actively being indexed and is showing up when you search for posts.

Okay pal. Judging from your comment history, you seem to be a very belligerent person. Maybe it is time for reflection? Maybe it’s not always the others that are stupid? Maybe it’s not always you that has the “moral high ground”?

So take your pompous attitude and choke on it.

See how your blatant and baseless assumption falls apart? Idiot.

So sick of you Linux clowning fanboys parading your free advertising.

Maybe they could? After all, these things were built.

Snake case for all kinds of file names and camel case for programming

And KHTML! Basically, KDE work is the foundation of the browser engines behind Chromium and Safari.

That’s also confusing and it is not the full saying. The full saying is “free as in free speech, not free beer”.

From the FSF website:

Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. Think of “free” as in “free speech”, not as in “free beer”. Free software is a matter of the users’ freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.

GPL enforcement has, in fact, been very successful so far. I recommend this Wikipedia entry.

And then there is the very successful lawsuit from the Software Freedom Conservancy against Vizio.

What? GPL does not restrict freedom, it ensures its continued existence.

The only reasonable choice!

Next time, try to engage rationally and in good faith with the commenter you are responding to :)

I don’t think that “live chat” is fitting for Lemmy. It is an aggregator in the first place. There are already other FOSS services for live chatting, such as Matrix. IMHO, adding such a feature to Lemmy would be out of the scope of the project and probably result in a bad and dysfunctional implementation.

Last paragraph too

P2P? How is that supposed to work? You cannot expect every user that uploads a video to even have remotely enough uptime for any arbitrary interested person to successfully watch their video

That would then mean that small instances would have to prove themselves before being accepted in the wider network of instances and just end up centralizing the fediverse.

Most of us want the Fediverse to eternally decentralise. Imho, this would be the optimal scenario. Whitelists would be a major obstacle to the décentralisation effort.

But if we want people on Lemmy who don’t know what Linux is, then we need to avoid that massive barrier of asking users to pick an instance. And the second massive barrier of registration applications.

How so? Those things do not have anything to do with each other. The concept of Lemmy instances can literally be explained in less than a minute.

More like the author is so insecure herself that she feels forced to use these terms in the belief that they somehow strengthen her position.

That’s not what proprietary means. The dualism is proprietary/free (as in freedom), not proprietary/public.

How stupid must you be that merging layers takes you hours? It is a single button press. Exporting PNGs is a matter of under 10 seconds. It is clearly labelled in the dropdown menu.

Absolute you problem. GIMP is some of the best and most powerful FOSS ever made, and better than most proprietary applications. But this is probably just bait anyway.