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  • I would agree with this. I used Gentoo for a while before moving to Ubuntu.

    Gentoo helps you learn and leads (forces) you down the path of getting under the hood to tweak your Linux experience.

    I wouldn’t recommend it if you need to build systems quickly for production. I’m sure there are hacks to do it more quickly.

    I’m really glad I used it before Ubuntu. I feel like a have a much firmer grasp of the concepts of Linux because of my experience with it.





















  • Got it, but I figured if I’m trying to log into the application, the credentials from my Mastodon account would be authenticated against my instance there.

    Like having a email client on your computer. You should be able to authenticate against your Yahoo, Outlook, or Google.

    I thought federated accounts would utilize the same authentication regardless of platform because they use the ActivityPub protocol. Maybe I need to learn more about it. Based on the information about that page it looks like you can auth into Pixelfed and PeerTube using your Mastodon credentials.

    I would love it if eventually there could be SSO across Federated platforms such as Lemmy.

    Additionally, from the Lemmy wiki page it says it is compatible with Mastodon and PeerTube. I guess I would like to understand how they are compatible.

    Lemmy instances are federated with each other, allowing a user on a given instance to participate in a “community” on another Lemmy instance without having to create an account on the other instance;[4] and with other instances in the Fediverse that use different software. ActivityPub is the protocol used to allow Lemmy instances to operate as a federated social network. It allows users to interact with compatible platforms including Mastodon and PeerTube.[15]