It's all relative, he's a big long tomcat. For his size 10 is a good spot. (not my first tom) :)
Named him Ollie after Oliver Twist. Lab tests all negative (leukemia, aids, etc.), neighbors been feeding him all summer so he's a healthy 10lbs of orange
Two kinds of nerds: the read the manuals, follow the instructions folks... and then my people, the plug it in turn it on push the button first crew. :)
In the old days, we would ls /usr/bin/ (sic, there are several locations defined for apps) and either look at the man page (if it existed) for the items we saw, or just run the commands with a --help option to figure out what they did. At best we maybe had an O'Reilly book (the ones with animals on the covers) or friends to ask. You can still do that today instead of reading blog posts or websites, just look, be curious and be willing to break something by accident. :)
Part of the Linux journey is to be inquisitive and break some stuff so you can learn to fix it - unlike say Windows, on a Unix-style system the filesystem is laid out in a very specific way (there's a specification [1]) so one always know where "things" are - docs go here, icons go there, programs go here, configs go there... - lending itself to just poking around and seeing what something does when you run it.
After awhile your brain adjusts and starts to see all the beautiful patterns in design of the typical Linux OS/distro because it's all laid out in a logical manner and documented how it's supposed to work if you play the game correctly.
This may be what you're looking for, tools such as this are watching the (meta)data flows: https://data.lemmyverse.net/
The entire tone of the article feels... condescending? (not sure the exact feeling). It feels off in the way information is presented, like subtle disdain in the writing voice.
Where I'm from, "woke" is a generic code word used by white racists to refer to anything which doesn't align to their principles. Any disagreement with their belief is simply labeled as "woke" because they cannot actually define and defend their use of the word, or directly name "the thing" (hard n----R word) out loud in public.
Signal is "easy" onboarding, just install and follow a wizard. I still have trouble convincing people to just download the app and try which is the hurdle. Most who bother to try it end up liking it and sticking with it since it's easy and familiar to SMS but nicer. The people who don't want to bother just never mention it again, or make up some excuse "won't run on my phone" (it's an iPhone) to stop the conversation.
how are piefed and lemmy different from one another
Think of "the fediverse" as a language spoken; Lemmy and Piefed (and Mastodon, Misskey, etc.) all speak the same language (ActivityPub) but they have different regional accents, so how the language sounds is a bit different depending on who you're talking with at the moment. Each speaker has their local idioms and slang, if you will.
For Fediverse users, the interaction is mostly at (a) the web browser layer, and (b) the phone app layer. The piefed and lemmy softwares are written in different programming languages, have slightly different features and look slightly different in your browser - sort of how a Honda and Nissan are close, but different.
Same for phone apps, but "not the same" since many fediverse apps support multiple services, like the Android app "Fedilab" - they can support many at once by speaking the ActivityPub language generically and implement custom features for each type on their own. (meaning independent development of the language, ensuring that the language itself, ActivityPub, is conformant).
Edit: picture is worth a thousand words - view these two presentations of the same content, this post with our comments:
Colors, layout, element positions (links etc.) are all just a wee bit different between them but it's all just wrapping the same content in different views. I personally feel Piefed has a lot of work to do to make their webUI appealing to me and it's what keeps me from using it as I use the browser a lot.
Idea: I'm always in Private mode (always, no exceptions) with uBlock etc. active and not seemingly having problems; my Pixel 6a (stock) private DNS is set to use Quad9. maybe try Private mode (only) on your device?
As a white guy living in a significantly "brown" large city, these racists are only emboldened to say it to me thinking "he's one of us" (racist); it's extremely noticeable when I repeat what they said like I couldn't hear it (being old has it's advantages) loudly so other people around us in public can hear what they said. Edit: and a major number of these people I run across are older white women from an ad-hoc statistics viewpoint.
No shade meant to the squids for that turn of phrase my bad; Army taught me how to swear and smoke. :)
It's hard to say the USA anymore, we are very deeply divided as a country. Here on the fediverse you'll find like-minded left-oriented people (presumably, based on my travels) but man our country is in the toilet. I'm in the over-50 category, been on this Earth awhile and this is some really bad shit - in society we have accepted standards of behaviour and we all know how Trump has dealt with that - dude paved over the Rose Garden to put in a gilded ballroom. Nicolae Ceaușescu, anyone?
Last week, not an exaggeration, an older white man I know I ran into (at the grocery) said something like "if I have to pay a black man reparations, I should be able to bring him home and beat his ass first." I was in complete shock these words came out of his mouth and I'm a "rough" guy so to speak, I'll swear like a sailor daily but these racists are emboldened to spew their hate loudly in public now.
Point being: the white racists with money have taken over USA politics, regardless of how people say fancy headlines I live here - it's all about white racism and supremacy. Every single thing they do is rooted in their hate of anyone and anything not being perceived as white power. Everything else is a smokescreen, their actions show you their beliefs. Trump has (and is) systematically fired any person of color who holds a position of power or influence, it's in the news every day.
It's some of my neighbors (I live in a very "brown" area, mixed races etc.) and we're all walking on eggshells because these MAGA lunatics scream and yell like little children without any logic. "Why did Trump choose 50% instead of 35% tariffs on xxxxx, what's the math behind it or economic policy?" - "it's the art of the deal!" (seriously, that's the response - blurt out a Fox News talking point with zero knowledge, pure ignorance). It's exhausting to deal with adults who have the reasoning of a 5 year old fueled by their hatred.