Absolutely!

I’m sure you could have fixed it with GRUB Rescue. It’s slightly annoying, but it isn’t that hard to get booted from that. Once you get it to boot then you can fix things.

Don’t give up so quickly next time. It’s useful to learn how to fix it instead of just accepting failure and resetting everything.

Yeah, man, I even went into live mode to try to undo what I did, but I still couldn’t manage it (I should have looked for help). But since I have backups of everything and my dotfiles, I didn’t worry too much (though I was pissed, I won’t lie).

I have my system select the default option really quickly, so I don’t see GRUB. This makes it tempting to not do that, but I think I’ll accept the convenient option instead of the cool option still.

On mine, it’s already set to boot into Arch automatically. It shows in the bottom right corner: “Joining world in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.” It’s really cool, man!

That is kind of awesome.

I wish Debian’s default Grub theme was less ugly; I know I could change it (and I have on other installs, but I’m quite lazy about theming these days. Part of it is I have a laptop that I rely on for college and don’t want to risk any theme glitches, so I keep its Debian install as vanilla as possible.

The first time I tried doing it (alone, without watching the video), I broke the system ;(, had a boot problem, so I had to reinstall everything again.

Yes, codeberg, and it’s going to be decentralized soon when forgejo implements federation

amazing!

Lmao, exactly me!

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interesting man, i'll try!

OMG, I didn’t know this site, thanks man!

Before anything, I would check if there is an active community they are actually interested in, and give them that. Otherwise, there’s really not much reason why they should use it. It would be like gifting someone a box full of manga to someone who is not interested in Japanese stuff. I’m saying this because a lot of people including OP seems to think decentralisation/federation/FOSSness are some major selling points to a lot of people, but it really isn’t. Content usually is.

It even applies to you too. If an instance banned you for mentioning Linux or FOSS, you wouldn’t really care that they were running open-source Lemmy, you would ditch that instance. If that happened with every instance, you wouldn’t use Lemmy at all.

Now you made me think man!

I normally just say, “I read [x] on Lemmy.”

If they ask and are genuinely curious what that is, I tell them it’s like a reddit offshoot, but the users control the network and servers with a high level of transparency in administration/moderation and run off software that can have tens of thousands of crowdsourced eyes helping to find and fix any bug or security issue.

interesting!

No, because the people hiring and the people working with you will be using GitHub.

maybe not! Life isn’t just work.

This is how I do it.

Brief

Imagine if there were 5 clones of twitter, all owned by different companies, but they could all still talk to each other.

So, a person from Twitter could talk to people from threads and bluesky.

Why do it this way?

Each twitter clone could have its own quirks. Like one could have a dislike button where as the rest won’t.
If one of the clone owners decides to become a nazi, we can just migrate to another clone.
This makes sure power is not concentrated in one place!
If the system is open source, you can even start your own version of twitter where you rule!

Don’t care about talking to people on twitter!

But you say “I don’t want to have to talk to people from Twitter!”. Well, doing it this way allows you to choose not to do so. (There’s an option to block clones you don’t like!)

What is fediverse?

It’s the network through which all these different but similar apps can talk to each other.

Social media formats like reddit, twitter and Instagram have been replicated for fediverse and available for people to join or create their own version.

Lemmy is a fediverse alternative for reddit, there are 100s of lemmy apps that can talk to each other (or choose not to if they don’t want to).
Mastadon is alternative for twitter.
And there are more.

To get them to join

Join the biggest instance or join any instance! You can figure out what you want specifically later, easy migration allows that!

But if you want You can read about them before joining: Each is focused on different things like privacy, literature, tech, and even gaming.

Fun Extra

Unlike with instagram and twitter and reddit, fediverse apps like mastadon and lemmy can theoretically talk to each other. So you will be able to see your “tweets” with your “reddit feed”.

Notes

Emphasize pain points and incentives like:

being banned for no reason
free speech
safe spaces
like minded people
Tighter knit communities
Decentralisation, if they’re into some form of socialism or left leaning ideologies.

awesome man, thanks a lot!