It was time for me to return to Linux, which I’ve been using on and off for two decades. This time I wanted to give Nobara a go, with its optimizations for gaming. But alas, the LiveUSB is unusable. The default options lead to a black screen (I guess when the kernel framebuffer kicks in), and the “troubleshooting” option gives me a desktop that crashes in a few minutes, when still setting up the options in the installer. I guess Wayland is too unstable.
So I returned to Gentoo and am now in the middle of installing that (again). Its LiveUSB system is stable and giving me no problem.
There are other active instances: https://kbin.fediverse.observer/list
But things are not as evenly spread as among lemmy instances (yet), and a lot of Reddit migration advice points to kbin.social as the main onboarding space.
/r/Reaper (55k) -> https://forum.cockos.com/
/r/LeftWingMaleAdvocates (15k) -> https://kbin.social/m/men
Of the four subs I moderate, two are restricted (i.e. read-only) with links to places off-Reddit. One support sub I handed over to my co-mod who wants to keep it going as long as possible, tho he understands Reddit is likely going down, slowly but certainly.
There’s only one of my subs that’s a bit problematic, with ~45% of voting users wanting to rejoin the blackout, but ~55% wanting it to remain open. There are some people really critical of my proposal to move to kbin.social, but they are largely people with very little prior activity on the sub.
Either way, unless Reddit reverses course and fires spez, I am leaving that platform.
/r/Reaper (55k) is still restricted.