James R Kirk

Personally I think of myself as holding space and keeping the current communities active while waiting for the software to mature. The devs have been making big strides with Lemmy 1.0, I think in a year or two we’ll begin to be a viable competitor to “normie” Reddit users similarly to how Linux achieved new levels of mainstream adoption in 2025.

I think 404 Media publishes on Ghost which uses activitypub.

OP wants one that isn’t heavily defederated.

You want a place full of radicals that other people can’t defederate from? What you want is Twitter.

not really the fediverse if its not federated is it

It doesn’t have decent anything yet but it’ll get there eventually. The voice chat is actually one of it’s stronger points IMO.

I agree with this. It’s installing an app. Installing a program to a computer you own should never be considered “unofficial”!

No a pro-piracy argument, but most artists get fractions of a penny from the sales of media anyway. Only the biggest stars are paid a fair share of the profits. I always try to find a way to support directly or use a platform (bandcamp, steam) that adds some value and gives a majority to the creator.

Toyota boot screen! Love it.

Yeah, it sucks because LibreELEC is the only way I’ve ever got HDMI-CEC to work. There are some nice skins too. In a different life, perhaps.

Not the guy to ask about that, sorry. I’ve seen it recommended elsewhere which is good enough for me. If you make a post about it I would definitely be interested. I’m not using it myself but I do keep an eye on the updates.

From what I can gather KonstaKang is the guy who makes these Raspberry Pi-specific versions.

Me too. The original devs abandoned it and it was picked back up by new devs in 2025

The way I see it, if someone eventually makes a Bazzite-styled distro that “just works” with a Plasma-Bigscreen UI on a Raspi it will become the clear and obvious choice for anyone. But we’re far from that still.

Not quite, and believe me, I’ve been looking.

Your best bet is probably LineageOS Android TV on a Raspi 5. From there you can install Kodi too. My issue here is that CEC does not work. Meaning you need a second remote.

I probably don’t recommend LibreELEC on a Raspi, because despite install being seamless, Kodi these days is essentially a real-debrid frontend (which might be what you’re looking for if you want integral torrent downloads!). The normal streaming apps for Kodi are not maintained even PlexJellyfin don’t work out of the box.

Something else I’m keeping an eye on is Plasma Bigscreen but that’s probably 2 years out minimum of being user friendly enough for someone not experienced.

Lastly if you have a Samsung TV, Tizentube will get you YouTube without ads (and other perks).

Are these the same people that refused to suspend Kiwi Farms and 8chan?

Neat!

Nextcloud is federated?

I’ve tuned into this a few times and it’s always been 100% completely unhinged. Love it.

Yeah but until two months ago Spotify was 24kbps

I wonder why Spotify and not YouTube Music, Tidal or Apple Music all of which are higher quality.