effingjoe

I'm sure it does to some degree, though I don't know if it's enough to matter on modern computers, and isn't that what flatpak does, too? (duplicating dependencies)

In any event, if you don't need an application from a specific distro there's no reason to create that container. The non-ubuntu ones get created when they're needed. (And I think the next version of VanillaOS will be debian-based, not ubuntu; in case that matters.)

Yeah, that's what I mean. You can use flatpak (or snap if you swing that way) but you can also install applications via containers. They're still not installed on the OS-- even "native" applications get installed via the container. So if the application you want is maintained for arch in aur, you can add the --aur tag to the apx command and it will install that version instead of the default, which is ubuntu. This also works for fedora applications.

Edit: More info here: https://handbook.vanillaos.org/2023/01/11/install-and-manage-applications.html

They don't hype it as much as (I think) they should on that webpage, but VanillaOS does this thing with it's package manager, Apx, where it allows you to install applications from various distros via containers, and run them all side-by-side seamlessly. It's neat.

Check out VanillaOS. It's pretty neat.

I get that and from my testing, hashtags inside a post-body aren't effective, so you're safe there-- however, that being said, it is the main mechanism for discovering content on mastodon, which means it is somewhat necessary on that platform-- not just a way to "game" some attention.

That's sweet; now I just need to remember to use it.

It's a setting (default off) called Add mention tags in entries under the "Writing" subsection.

FYI I did some testing regarding this topic and edited my post with the results, if you're interested.

It's not quite so formal as that, but many people seem to use several common hashtags when it's ambiguous like that. So in your instance, if you were talking about the new zelda game, you might tag the post with all of those hashtags just to spread a wider net for interested people.

Weird, because I can see all your activity on your mastodon account.

It's a keyword search. On Twitter, it was used to help people more easily find specific topics of discussion, and on mastodon, there is no plain text search-- you can find people, or hashtags-- so if you want your post to be discoverable outside people that already follow you, you need to use hashtags.

kbin has this feature; I'm just not sure if it works like you describe. I need to play around more to do some testing, I guess.