But compare with GOG then. They sell games, you download them with no DRM so you own the download essentially.

This is the model digital media should take, frankly. Anything less may as well be misleading marketing, as far as I’m concerned.

Commenting to indicate my shared interest in this (despite the other comments suggesting the unlikelihood of such an option emerging).

From what I understand, you’ll still be owning your game on GOG the way you currently do, it’s mostly a new way to “consume” them. It does not feel like a regression to me, seems mostly to be opening to new possibilities.

I think you’re correct with the first sentence, but on the second, I somewhat disagree. Strictly speaking, it’s correct, yet it’s not so new insofar as other platforms have done similar sorts of things, and with GOG I’d have hoped they might look into partnering with some software developers working on enabling local/self-hosted game streaming solutions more in the spirit of the DRM free approach.

…Isn’t this a weird move for a DRM free service to make?

Works but feels like a bit much for media 🤔

I feel like there should be a better verb/word for unrestricting/unrestricted media.

Thanks for the update! The discussion on private communities is definitely an interesting one. Lots of small details to work out, but I think they’d be a great addition. Sort of surprised there wasn’t already an instance-level default sort setting, but that should be interesting to see if instances experiment with it more.

Also linking that post reminded me, hopefully somehow a smoother way to link posts across instances can be worked out (albeit that’s a general federation quirk from what I’ve seen, Mastodon runs into similar stuff sometimes).

Ideally these communities would be prevented from appearing in the “Trending Communities” list or local/global feeds unless someone other than the owner was subscribed to them, but wouldn’t be private in the sense that no-one could see them. Just they wouldn’t get wide distribution.

This raises a distinct but interesting additional feature request that might complement “private” or exclusive communities, as well as others that might like to prepare a community before promoting it: a hidden or unlisted setting for communities.

That would enable what you mention here, preventing their appearance from trending, and perhaps also user profile/data areas (i.e. if one can indirectly view others’ subscriptions, this might offer a way to obfuscate/hide that from others besides admins).

I think this would likely be the simplest solution and is worth considering especially since similar concerns have been raised with Mastodon over their naming of messaging specific people (“private”/direct/mentioned only/etc.).

Exclusive may be another good term instead of private.

Yeah, I can see where you’re coming from on this. Personally I’m not a fan of Active as the default, yet I also don’t know what might be preferable to others. With that being the case, I thought it might help to highlight some ways to work with it in the meantime, especially given the outside perspective.

For those here, I think it’s probably good to advise them to consider trying different sort methods till they find one that suits their preferences if they find themselves annoyed by the defaults, which has been happening for awhile already anyway.

I should elaborate a little, while I think commenting is important under Active sort for helping surface posts, I also think it is being balanced out by the vote scores. For a post to be surfaced you’ll want it to be both valued (upvoted) and commented on, then if you’re hoping for it to remain visible for awhile, you’ll want to see fairly steady commenting (that’s part of why you can see posts from days ago lingering around under Active, I think).

I’ve not really noticed too many situations of flamebait style posts doing this, as I suspect they’re generally downvoted…Aside from the beating-a-dead-horse sort of posts that, despite receiving the usual, “Ugh this again” sort of comments, seem to otherwise be valued by some lurking voters.

It’s a media server that lets you access movies/tv shows/music from other devices via apps or a web interface. In this post’s case it’s talking about the Jellyfin app on Roku that lets you watch/listen to stuff through Roku devices.

In my experience it’s been pretty nice and easy to use, and the Roku app’s decent enough for what I’m after, which is simply watching stuff from my PC on other tvs in other rooms.

Edit:
Btw here’s a link to the post OP screencapped: https://social.linux.pizza/@tgpo/111551351394147888

Ghost Commander may work for this. I’ve not tried sftp myself, but on opening it I do see the option there, so it might be worth a try.

In case anyone else doesn’t keep track of Android versions by the fun nicknames, here’s a Wikipedia page for the versions with numbers included. KitKat was version 4.4 of Android.

Honestly couldn’t remember which numbered version this was & couldn’t imagine I was alone in that, lol

As a mild illustration of why this would be a nice change, I’m unfortunately going to slightly bother Boozilla with this reply after almost 2 weeks. Sorry Boozilla!

In case anyone thinks this is a fiction reference or something, it’s not. Kinda interesting project tbh, came across someone with a Gemini link in their profile on Mastodon the other day and it got me curious.

Remember, doing terrible things is a-okay if you do it with professional attire, polite speech, and the right tone. Mess up any of those and you’re okay to reject and write off for being unprofessional and, if you’re of certain demographics, too emotional.

My knowledge is similarly limited, but fwiw I think you’re more or less correct on what you’ve reasoned about your first question. Regarding the second, this is going to vary for each federated service and what’s involved, e.g. on Mastodon your social graph (who you follow, who follows you) may be either public or private depending on your settings.

As to whether instances have lists of subscribed communities (or channels/followed users/etc.), I think you may be right as well as this is how the All/Federated/Other servers feeds are produced. However on private messages, they are absolutely not end to end encrypted on any fediverse service that I’m aware. It’s much better to call these direct messages or mentioned people only (depending on context) rather than private, as many of the services that permit this form of messaging are really doing just that, simply making a public post only visible to the mentioned or directly messaged individual.

In other words, the fediverse is not really suited to private communications unless it’s explicitly described as such (e.g. end to end encrypted channels/spaces on Matrix instances), so it’s still better to use services like Signal or the like for private comms.

Regarding your third question, I don’t know enough on this to comment.

Hope this helps, and if I’m mistaken on any of these, please correct me as I’m also interested in learning more on this subject!

Er…Maybe I’m overlooking it, or maybe there’s a slight misunderstanding here? I only see the option to adjust the default feed type below theme options in my settings, but without further settings to limit the All feed to only display remote/federated communities.

Makes sense!

I set up Wireguard simply to get a rough understanding of how to do so & to try to access some home resources while away, which works well enough across simpler network situations, but as you indicate, breaks down against more complicated network situations.