Is Beehaw defederated from VLemmy?
I know Beehaw were having their issues with lemmy.world and lemmy.ml, but I was wondering if they defederated with all open instances, since my subscriptions have been pending for only that instance from here
MIDI Scripting: A woefully under-utilized and often overlooked feature of FL Studio
By now I guess everyone knows that you can create python scripts to do various tasks inside FL Studio. FL Studio reads these script files as though they were a normal midi controller.
What not a lot of people know (I sure didn't until yesterday!) is that there has already been so much community work that's gone into creating controller scripts for all sorts of hardware, and even standalone scripts!
Odds are, there is probably a really helpful midi script that someone else has made for the hardware that you use already.
What kind of content would you like to see here?
I'm open to any and all suggestions!
Obviously things like regular feedback threads, challenges etc. are not really viable unless there's a lot more people in the community. And consequently enforcing very strict rules about content really makes no sense till we really need them.
I'll be updating the sidebar as we go, just to flesh this out a bit
Welcoming all reddit transplants
I am one such ex redditor myself. Admittedly the FL studio subreddit there is HUGE, but maybe this can be our little corner of the Internet, for the people who do not want to use reddit anymore.
I don't think most people are going to take that second step though. Most people will look up the main website and choose something from there
I'm not sure this is user dependent considering this is on the admin docs page. For users to subscribe to a community on another instance, that instances admin has to allow federation with the other instance.
I just feel like the bare minimum is not strict enough; you could theoretically have an almost fully defederated instance while still having a listing and potentially getting user sign-ups from the lemmy home site.
I could in theory create two such instances, federate only with one popular instance, get both listed, then only federate with each other. Completely diminishes the default experience users will have on signing up to my instances
The screenshot is from this documentation page for administrating a lemmy instance
Doesn't the minimum requirement for the first point seem a bit too lax? It still results in a largely closed off instance that is listed alongside the others.
My biggest takeaway with open source projects is this:
Theres there's a HUGE jump from being power user friendly to being user friendly in general. Significantly bigger than the jump from dev/contributor users to power users.
UX is something huge companies spend a lot of time and money on to ensure the layman can use the software well, something open source developers do not have the luxury of caring about from the get go.
Power users do not recognize the inbuilt muscle memory they have acquired over time to get around some of the more nagging aspects of the software and get frustrated with new users for not doing the same, while these new users get frustrated at things not being straightforward, or similar to some other software they're used to.
IMO this push and pull is what is truly preventing a Linux desktop experience that is truly layman friendly. But when it works, and an open source project can slowly start putting more of their time into UX when the project is more mature, then it truly starts kicking ass.
Look at how far Blender has come since the 3.0 update. A lot of studios are straight up switching to it for a lot of work that was traditionally Max or Maya based. Obviously you still have some of the "old guard" who felt a little alienated with the sweeping changes from 2.7 to 3, but I feel blender is objectively better for most people since then.
TL;DR: OSS always deals with different competing needs for power users vs regular users, but given enough time things get smoothened out