Open World

Why do people keep telling me to ask Al about these questions? He’s just my next door neighbor for god’s sake

Yeah I guess I jumped the gun there. I do wonder why they can’t just give the option to create an account instead of using a phone number. Requiring a phone is too limiting.

So I could basically create an account on any platform independent of my phone number? I sure hope that’s the case.

Yes, I understand that you can just add more services to integrate your other services together. I just think that it would be far more convenient to have a single service that does all of that in a smart way. Each service could instead be its own plugin that you could opt into. Each plugin would have its own dedicated UI/UX for handling that media type.

Basically it should have a design similar to that of Plex or Jellyfin (which handle multiple media types in a smart, cohesive way). Of course, that would take a lot of coordination and funding, but man it would be such a better overall experience for the vast majority of people.

I’ve had the same question for a while now. My best guess is that they’re trying to create separate services that individually are the best at what they do UI/UX-wise. It may be very difficult to create an all-in-one platform for each type of media as a cohesive experience.

It could also be done for modularity. Having the services split up means the user doesn’t have to deal with media types they don’t care about and could just install the services for which they do.

That being said, it would be nice if there was an all-in-one platform that allowed you to easily opt into the media types you wanted as like plugins or something instead of you having to set up multiple different app containers in your server.

how do i read this

They’re still a thing?

I’m trying out Liftoff right now, and so far I think it’s given me the best overall experience. I think I’ll wait until the rest of the Lemmy apps stabilize before thinking about trying other apps again.

Brave (browser), Youtube, and the music app

I’m not personally in the market for a Steam Deck, but I am still incredibly grateful to Valve for all the work they’ve done to support Linux on the desktop as a byproduct.

It’s nice that we can have all these choices for 3rd party clients that won’t end up getting screwed over due to a central authority.

Oh is that how they work