What I find ironic is that misskey, akkoma and gotosocial all offer more features (reactions, server-defined post length limit, markdown support, more media per post) and a general better user experience than mastodon, but the elephant gets all the attention

In my case, it’d be an actual epic job, since I work for govt and we use an old version of TrakCare, which has been the source of a number of headaches for at least 7 years now

I’m curious, which certifications does it lack such that Germany can’t use GNUMed?

Gonna take a look at that one. Data migration from a 10+ years program would definitely be the second biggest pain, number one would be training staff to use it, but i do think it’d be worth it

Most anything related to healthcare:

• System for medics and nurses to input all the data of a patient, which can be accessed by said patient if need be
• System for keeping track of vaccines applied and pinging people who need to take more shots (second dose, reinforcement dose, etc)
• drivers and programs to interact with medical equipment

Just something simple that I can listen to my MP3s with.

You mean like foobar2000? I don’t know much about fully FOSS players, but foobar is free

a script that only works on your machine

That’s why docker exists :D

I miss the times when I found 5" phones big. Now they just seem small because everything else is pushing 7"

Status symbol, aka “I need to differentiate myself from those lowly serfs, lest they think themselves as equal to me!”

hnn-geenks

And it was just an asshole form factor, a micro SD - memory stick adapter worked wonders on my psp

Did plenty of those back in college. Java server stuff to run with Tomcat

My dummy understanding is that each instance could be considered a “client”, in the sense that they’re always on the lookout for data from other instances whenever the latter generates new content. Either that or, when one connected user checks what’s on a different instance, it downloads to the local cache, ie: if I, from programming.dev, am the first to check this thread, a copy gets saved locally (cache) in the programming.dev server, which might check back on the original source in the case of any edits.

We need to get off the internet. Or at least off lemmy. Probably better to get off the internet more often, otherwise we’ll just find something else :/

Just a reminder: if the intent is to get people off bluesky, xitter or threads, the masses won’t care about servers, they’ll only care about whether “people are there”.

Maybe I’m delusional and severely underestimating how doable this is, but I really believe Mastodon needs to change the way it deals with new users if we want it to actually grow into a strong social media, keyword social (it needs people).

The irony is that each server, as they’re running their own version of mastodon (or similar federated program), could edit their code to make the change so that the first page a new user sees is the local or global posts coming in. I don’t know how many bother to add any bit of code that differs from the main source, but I suspect it’s a very small fraction, which means the real decision falls on the main mastodon maintainers who, if comments on previous mastodon focused posts are anything to go by, very rarely accept changes to UI/UX

Were there any comments on lack of repairability or the obtuse insistence on removing physical keys?

If a person uses a libre VoIP app, there is no need for cell service

I don’t follow. Don’t you need internet for VoIP? Unless the point is to have a phone that gets zero connection while outside a wifi, which sounds kinda pointless?

I thought dick measuring contests in legal courts was the go-to “I have so much money and I don’t know how to spend it!” of big companies

Can we please go back to making programs for the target OS and skip the browser dependency?

So did I, but then there’s OP’s post, which made me think this isn’t universal

It’s stuff like this that makes me amazed at how advanced Brazil is in some regards (or how backwards USA is). We can, from the comfort of a banking app (that can make instant money transfers to any other bank, free of charge), set up automatic payment of utilities like phone, electricity and water, no extra bank bullshit hidden charges applied.