From Linux, mind sharing the full command log, or at least the full libicu67 line? Sounds like missing dependencies (similar to missing DLLs on Windows), but want to be sure.

Don’t think there are any for this purpose. But maybe you can wrap something up. For example, if one such service like Strava has RSS, you could set a bot to share. Furthermore, iirc the user can set his Friendica account to make automated posts while still being a personal account.

Also, maybe also look if a tracking service has integration to an ActivityPub-compatible platform, or even to platforms that can be bridged to ActivityPub. For example Wordpress (seem pretty powerful from what I’ve seen) and Bluesky (can be bridged to ActivityPub through Bridgy Fed, Friendica, Wafrn and maybe some other service I’m forgetting).

In this idea of nested bridging and RSS, if a tracking app lets you post to Twitter, you could make an RSS reader bot or a Friendica account to read the feed a Nitter instance would provide for your Twitter account.

And in this idea of nested bridging, alternatively and if all steps are possible, to find an app that lets you share to Facebook or Instagram, then share the post to Threads while it has ActivityPub integration active. Not sure if it’s indeed viable as I don’t use either of the 3.

Also maybe Misskey or PieFed could help? Apparently both have pretty powerful CSS-based user extension capabilities.

And not an immediate solution, but to keep fomenting the idea of having an ActivityPub alternative for that? Or even getting someone to make it, though people don’t usually seem to like to make software for one person if they’re not being paid and they don’t see a bigger advantage to making the software.

Still, hiccups every now and then could be good to make people look for backup instances

Just tried opening the home page and appears active for me. Maybe routing issues for specific regions?

It should be I asking sorry, as I didn’t make it quite clear. I could tell it wasn’t the mic, and meant that a similar issue could be happening, noise coming as interference and becoming noticeable as volume is higher.

One thing that happens in my laptop that I’d recommend checking is what happens if you lower the volume until you find a threshold you can listen well to but that hopefully doesn’t have crackling noise issues. In mine, the microphone is so sensitive anything over some 10~15% volume picks machine noise I’d normally not listen to. Otherwise, at the limit of the treshold my voice comes out clean when picked up by the microphone.

Run two Steam instances at the same time? 😬

Iirc the maintainer of the wiki has a sister group in Steam’s forums, so people could ask him to migrate the wiki.

Maybe can ask also on !patientgamers@sh.itjust.works?

There’s also games without DRM on Steam if you’d rather not spend more that what’s been gifted. As Steam itself doesn’t track those, there’s those two wikis keep track of it if you want:
https://steam.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_DRM-free_games
https://www.pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_big_list_of_DRM-free_games_on_Steam

I don’t check there so could only theorize. But in the line of potential flooding, or at least when a given site is specially bothersome to the user, I wish more sites allowed blocking posts that link to specific domains.

About Lemmy not being much better, if that’s not a bother to you, I’d suggest looking for another instance. Or if the ban was in a remote instance, to look for communities in other instances (or even make your own communities if you’d be willing to moderate).

And if Lemmy the environment overall attracts some problematic crowds, maybe check Friendica, Mbin and/or PieFed? Latter two are to my knowledge fully compatible with Lemmy communities, and apparently Friendica is too, albeit organized a bit differently.

Since I joined in here, I could tell certain instances could be problematic, but also that ActivityPub allows for a great deal of alternatives and oxygenating the social environment. So while packing your things to find a better place can be annoying, it’s still the best option, I think, given the nature of the protocol.

I’m out of the loop. Reddit’s global rules prohibit sales? If that’s the case, it’s weird to say this, but even Facebook is more reasonable. Sales aren’t illegal in most places of the world, and in an user-fed website, I’d expect at least some to be interested in doing sales.

From what I can get, it seems to be a fan/“fan”-run subreddit? If so, at least on the political side, doesn’t seem like a big deal. However, on the health of such communities, it’s a warning tale as Reddit’s design makes it hard to make alternative communities to keep discussion going.

I’d imagine it’s due to such forums not having a big incentive to get their userbase oxigenated, as you’d need to create an account and invest on it, but at the risk of ignoring and eventually even dropping the social media you’re already familiar with. And aggravating it, as userbase shrinks, certain behaviors cause more and more people to drop, leaving only those that are ok or that even replicate this behavior, causing a vicious cycle.

From what I observed, when forums start going that path, if they’re small enough, they die from irrelevance. And if a given forum is big enough or is kept forcefully alive, they become some Karachay lake-style radioactive landfill.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues

Here is where I suggested to ask too.

Unsure if it went anywhere, but maybe also suggest on their issues/suggestions tracker? If it’s on Github, usually the Issues tab is used for the latter too.

Cynical as I have become in recent years, I can’t help but to think it’d be due to a VM seldom carrying interesting data for data brokers - your real machine is usually where the “good stuff” is.

Plus, in the possibility you don’t want to stick around and just came here to ask for help, I would insist otherwise: the protocol’s proposal makes for the environment as a whole to be hard to be taken down or to be taken over. And even if a given community, user base or instance is not of your liking, alternatives are already starting to pop up while still in the overall environment.

If the platform doesn’t want you, I wouldn’t think it’s healthy to still chase after it. If it’s something you want to post in other platforms, maybe see if there’s a section of your liking in other forums or microblogs? I remember coming across a few those past few years, like AtariAge, Retropie, Fuwanovel, Twitter if you must, Bluesky or any of its forks, etc.