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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • Look, I’ve never used Apple’s quick look or Gnome sushi so I can’t answer this question. The people here can definitely give you a better answer than me haha

    After reading about a user who was looking for an alternative to Apple’s Quick Look and Sushi Gnome I decided to create this program to practice with python and make someone happy. I didn’t expect there were so many people with the same need.

    It looks absolutely great and I will download it, but I have a question, what advantage does it have, for example, to use this instead, for example, to open Okular to view a PDF?

    I think its usefulness lies in the ability to scroll between files (even of different types) with the arrow keys, plus being fast.





  • That’s what makes it better than reddit. It can’t so easily be controlled by just a few people, because if one community/magazine on one instance gets overrun with toxicity, you can start a mag/comm with the same name on another instance.

    absolutely, I am not against this kind of decentralization.

    What I meant is that something could be done to collect the communities posts under one collection to make it easier for the user to join/see the communities content.

    For example, if you subscribe to c/Technology you are subscribed to all the c/Technology communities (optional) in the federation. But this brings with it the problem of duplicates and I don’t think there is an easy way to avoid it, and obviously different communities may have different rules.

    Put simply: being able to subscribe to collections.

    I say this because it seemed to me, at least initially, that for new users this presence of multiple communities with the same name was annoying and confusing.



  • watching the Fediverse explode while various corporate entities implode is just popcorn entertainment.

    Agree

    To be honest I’m still skeptical of the Fediverse

    The first time I heard about the fediverse I thought it was something different, I thought it was decentralized in the sense that users act as servers in a torrent-like system. This federation thing seemed strange to me at first but I think it’s still better than the usual platform controlled by a few people.

    The only thing I see problematic to integrate into a reddit-like site is the presence of multiple communities with the same name belonging to different instances. Right now this is probably not helping lemmy’s image.