I don’t remember exactly. Maybe a year or so.

The same was true for the official pixelfed app and the source was eventually released. Not great, but I think it is fair not to assume malice in this case.

Forgejo is working on federated github.

Hmm, has been a while since I last tried PCSX2, but isn’t there a module for it in Retroarch these days? Usually that works better.

Huh? That has gotten very easy with the RPMfusion repos for those drivers especially being enabled by default so you can just install them from the main software center. But this isn’t exactly new.

They either have some licensing agreement with the IP holders of these codecs or do it on legally questionable grounds.

They sadly can’t do that for legal reasons.

It works well though 🤷‍♂️

Pixelfed only shows messages with images attached.

The Pixelfed developer has been teasing Lemmy compatible groups for some years now. Apparently the code already exists, but for some reason it never gets merged.

At one point last year it looked like it would finally be released soon and I even set up a Pixelfed instance on my server to test it, but then somehow they decided working on Loops and Sup. was more important.

I got so annoyed by this lack of focus on basic functionality in general and a few other things regarding it that I deleted the instance again and do not plan to bother with anything this dev puts out again. Best of luck to them though, but I have better things to do with my time…

I has stronger Tower Defense elements, but it seems to be a lot of fun especially also in multiplayer.

ActivityPub is not very well suited for real-time communication, but there are some attempts like Sup.

I think the best is to integrate an existing Fedivserse instance with XMPP. We do that on our slrpnk.net instance where every member automatically has a XMPP account reachable under the same address as on the Fediverse. We also host a Movim client that does chat as well as 1:1 A/V calls (group calls are coming soon).

No, like I wrote in my edit: I recommend reading up on the ATproto design. It’s not necessarily bad if your goal is to create a single global town-square (i.e. Twitter like) microblogging website, but given this design goal, it will always be dominated by a single entity controlling the app view, and that is likely to be Bluesky itself.

$4m is not nearly enough to wrestle control away from Bluesky, and even if that would succeed you would have not fundamentally changed the situation but just replaced one single controlling entity with another.

Well, obviously the $4m wouldn’t have to be spend on ActivityPub protocol development, meaning it could be spend way more effectively to on specific gaps in the network and software.

But even that aside, ATproto is a funnel towards Bluesky the company. It’s fundamentally designed to have a winner takes all situation, so yes maybe these $4m could be effectively used to improve it, but the only one that will ultimatly benefit from that is Bluesky.

Edit: I guess I am just repeating myself. But I recommend reading up on the ATproto design. It’s not necessarily bad if your goal is to create a single global town-square (i.e. Twitter like) microblogging website, but given this design goal, it will always be dominated by a single entity controlling the app view, and that is likely to be Bluesky itself.

It’s better for Bluesky (the for-profit company) to keep control of the network, otherwise it is a lot worse than ActivityPub.

The $4m would be better invested in the Fediverse. ATproto is designed with a winner takes all philosophy and Bluesky has the headstart and more funds, so this is a wasted effort most likely.

Technically itch.io is afaik FOSS, but it doesn’t cater to open-source games exclusively.

The Libregaming.org community has brainstormed quite extensively about what you propose and some of it is summarized here: https://libregaming.org/reports/game-launcher-concept/ (partially outdated by now)

Personally I think a fork of the Heroic Games launcher could be a good base for such a game store.

Lemmy can host gifs or videos natively, it is just disabled on most instances due to storage and bandwidth limitations.

Pict-rs the software that Lemmy uses to serve images is originally intended for this and can be run in standalone mode.

No, Vive and Index work ok on Linux, but they are not mobile like the OP asked for since they require base stations.