catnash [she/her, ae/aer]

If someone using Brave gives him money and that money goes in to a homophobic lobby it would be better for consumers to know that so they can actually consent to that. Consumers deserve to make informed decisions about who to or who not to support.

Yeah, there’s a Behringer desk that is ubiquitous…

You’re correct but in my experience everything I’ve used at a venue is analog, running almost entirely off of the mixing desk, without an external computer running Win/Mac/Linux. And half of these consoles I’ve used had a USB port which was used for, among other things, storing templates. This allowed for our front-of-house mix engineers and monitor mix engineers to cruise along because most of the work was done at home or in other venues. The software for writing those was Windows/Mac at the least, I don’t know if any used Linux and I’m not sure if they were “human-readable” text formats.

At that price point I’m not so motivated to work on something FOSS, I care more for working with the hand-to-mouth musicians than the large institutions.

Decent Sampler (and the attached Pianobook community) fits my needs perfectly well, with the exception that it’s not FOSS.

This is about FOSS and I can’t see that Audiotool is FOSS, and Samplers are not Sample Libraries. Sample Libraries are ubiquitous among producers who want a good sounding recreation of a real instrument but cannot afford (or morally support), for example, Pianoteq’s modelling algorithms or Spitfire’s premium libraries, neither of which are FOSS, or the instrument itself or a session player.

As I said, the most promising multi-sampler or sample library software with an active community was Decent Sampler, which isn’t open-source and now supports DRM.

What do you mean the “live production stuff” exactly?

Again, depending on your needs perhaps Logseq is fine. It seems that developers of each app (Logseq and Obsidian namely) have this expectation of how users want to use their apps but in my experience they are both configurable to use Tags, Folders or Links to organise content. This lets you take notes and organise in several ways.

Logseq is FOSS, Obsidian is not and is more popular (thus larger community plugins/themes ecosystem). That’s the main difference.

I would love for someone to walk me around what SN can do and walk someone around what Obsidian can do.

In my opinion it is a terrible choice for a company to rely on a dependency like XZ, especially maintained by one person as a hobby, without being able to meaningfully contribute to the maintenance themselves. I just don’t think I can be sympathetic to a company having to maybe bend a rule or two to donate.

This is one of the problems, these companies and other groups just use a dependency maintained by one person (Lasse) without meaningfully contributing to its survival themselves.

It’s not about the files, I’m very happy with files being local and easily synced and messed with. It is as you say, you create a folder which Obsidian reads as a “vault” and create .md files and folders in there, plus the hidden folders that let Obsidian organise plugins…

But I’m also not exclusively using it on Android, it’s my desktop driver for just about everything text. Especially please with the community plugins which make it extremely accessible for someone with additional needs when it comes to reading or writing, the recent improvements to tables and the plugins that integrate it with Pandoc and Zotero.

I was never able to replace what it was with anything except maybe Logseq, and even the Logseq couldn’t replace all of the functionality and theming. I tried living a few days in Logseq, just moving my vault there, but it didn’t work so well.

It’s not a major issue, I would like to move to FOSS but it’s not an emergency like moving away from Google is an emergency.

I’ve looked at these, especially LMMS, but in my view they aren’t enough (or good enough) to completely escape non-FOSS.

Sample Library plugins, my area of interest, are under two or three banners: Kontakt, Decent Sampler and SF. None of these are appropriately free, although Decent Sampler shows the most promise of breaking down the class divide in this area.

Software for the production of music and audio, like Ardour but for more platforms which more typical people could use more easily, plus plug-ins for that ecosystem. It’s a major sticking point how corporate that field is for me.

I regret I’m probably never escaping Obsidian. For a closed-source piece of software it has such a beautiful ecosystem of themes and plugins. I love to use it for writing my blog articles, and the mostly strict adherence to the markdown spec, the HTML rendering and plugins that add support for Pandoc (and Zotero)…

But by default I can’t seem to get Logseq in that space, even if I really want to, where I only organise files based on metadata and folders.

Eternity doesn’t render that fine and neither do any of the websites and frontends I’ve tried. It’s likely Raccoon in specific renders this as you intended, but it is in the markdown spec — that Lemmy mostly follows — that “strictly” two line breaks are needed to render one line break in HTML.

It isn’t very “what you see is what you get”…

They can help by donating some of their billions.

Do you like your men like you like your software?

You’ve taken “home screen as self expression” to a new level level 70 and I am here for it.

This functional consequence of defederation is telling their users they shouldn’t be allowed to interact with an instance.

Again, if lemmy.blahaj.zone’s admin team have stated Threads has a transphobia problem (and they have) then I’m not going to tell them they’re wrong (ignoring the fact that I agree with them) because, as admins, they’ve seen more than I have and if I’m on their instance I’m implicitly putting my trust in them. My trust has been well-placed, so far. If you do not trust your instance’s admins to make decisions you find reasonable, find a new instance.

Moving servers is certainly a viable option, but it’s a pain and doesn’t transfer content

On one level I agree but that’s the case with moving any social media without linking it and saying “This used to be mine, I don’t maintain it anymore”. I see no reason why federations (or “bubbles”) in the fediverse should be held to a higher standard. I suppose I just can’t relate because I don’t particularly care much about the things I post and I’m only really in one place: here. In any case I can empathise with the fact moving instance is a pain but if your instance admins make decisions you don’t like you should consider leaving it before you fall in to the Sunk Cost Fallacy and have even more posts you can’t port over!

you can block instances.

A user blocking instances isn’t the same as instances defederating. The difference between user-level blocking and instance-level defederation is that (1.) users need to see the offending content to be able to know to block it and (2.) I do not want bad-actors to see my content and want to put as many walls as possible up to stop them from seeing my content and interacting with me.

In either case this thread is about instances defederating from Threads. If moderators and admins notice their modlog or pending actions have a disproportionate amount of users misbehaving from a certain instance they might consider defederating until the instance can instill a more acceptable culture as it’ll clear the queue up in future. Some communities and instances have already done this pre-emptively.

Your desire to have Threads blocked at the instance level is at odds with Katy’s desire to follow trans people on it.

Again, if an instance does not align with your values you can and probably should move instance. Maintaining an account on both two instances is as simple as having two different tabs. I would also advocate for improved tooling to transfer your content. The right to choose extends as far as your instance admins allow you the right to choose.

The nature of the fediverse is that it’s federative/defederative. If an instance chooses to defederate because it thinks federation is a risk then they can do that. If that causes a problem for a user, the user can move to another instance which does federate.

I joined the fediverse after years of bad experiences on more typical social media sites, and specifically lemmy.blahaj.zone instance because the admins are very good at weeding out transphobia. If they federated with Threads I would be very surprised and want them to convince me of why that was a good idea.

If an instance defederates from another instance there’s nothing stopping a user who liked that instance that was defederated with from moving to, making an account on or just using (in the broadest sense) another instance which hasn’t defederated with the instance they like or that instance itself. I do this sometimes, I go on to another instance I don’t have an account on to see the content a defederated instance treats as acceptable and thus the culture it has.

That’s one reason I moved to the fediverse: so I could get rid of all of the content I didn’t want to see before I saw it. More typical social media like Meta, Twitter and Reddit all have a long history of failing to moderate against anti-trans hate, as with other types of hate, so I moved to the fediverse. One thing that stuck out as a major selling point to me at the time was a lack of an algorithm, meaning that everything I saw I saw because I searched for it, I subscribed to it, because it’s local or has been crossposted. Those latter two cases are the only real examples I can think of where a user is served content they didn’t actively search for, and even then they’re likely to be interested in it because an instance with a specific purpose, like lemmy.blahaj.zone or slrpnk.net, would only host communities that fit with the userbase’s interests and communities only share things of interest to that community.

One of the reasons I use lemmy.blahaj.zone as my instance, which Katy also uses, is because the admins do their best to weed out transphobia and that includes Threads because Meta has poor moderation. It’s already fairly well established practice to block or defederate from instances with poor moderation (sometimes including open registration) because they pose risks to an instance’s userbase. If my instance federated with Threads I would feel at risk from Threads users attacking my posts or my private messaging inbox, so I would leave. We have already seen “aggressive” or “troll-ish” behaviour like this from instances which are far smaller than Threads is.