Once this grid is 10x10, then you will know it is time to move onto another site.

The lack of working hardware acceleration is mostly NVDIAs fault for not providing open sourcr drivers, and the community’s effort at reverse engineering the GPUs has been nothing less than Herculean. As for codecs, Fedora is derived from Red Hat, which is an enterprize distro and does not include (proprieatry) codecs to avoid licencing issues. Every problem you have listed is a result of corporate fuckery and not of Linux.

As for tech support, with Microsoft you can click the “diagnose” button, which does nothing, or spend a lovely time with an outsorced call Center which again, does not solve the problem.

The “complicated aspects” are the central idea of the platform as a whole. The concept of multiple servers united by a single protocol is not that hard, and any user not being able to grasp something as elementary as that would not make a good community member. Call me a snob, elitist, whatever. Lemmy is not a commercial project and has no YoY growth projections or sharholders demaning growth at all costs, and I would like it to remain so.

Vintage garfield plush does not need your forgiveness.

Yes, but isn’t it a bit unfair (not to mention hardly enforcable) to demand of new instances not to host certain communities because the already exist on instance xyz? Even on Reddit there were spin-off communities due to powertripping mods. So far the most likely solution seems to be topic clustering, which we can probably expect in some future update.

I really don’t understand the hostility towards nerd/tech oriented communities. Every time an online community dares to be on the nerdy side you get people loudly proclaiming how that’s the worst thing ever, and that we need to expand until every Tom, Dick and Harry has a user acount.

Usually, when a site is adopted by the general public, the quality of the posted content goes down the toilet. Bots, shills and intrusive advertising follows, and the site dies a slow death. Reddit’s r/all was a museum of ragebait, reposts and celebrity gossip, and I certainly don’t want Lemmy to do an enshittification speedrun because some users refuse to learn how the fediverse functions.

Once again, this is a feature, not a bug. Two different servers, two different communities, united by a common communication protocol. This is what separates Lemmy from other Reddit clones, and what made it thrive, unlike non-federated sites who are either splintered and languishing, or attracting an unsavory audience.

Spray all over your family for one last time.

This is the least Warhammer illustration I ever saw in my life.

Why do Lemmy instances automatically federade with every other instance? Wouldn’t be more wise to add instances manually, from a list?

In my defense, a lot of people (sheeple) are unfamiliar with the term (I am a lemming).

And what would be those “trade secrets”? The ability to make posts and have them being read by other people? I’m pretty sure every forum software since the '70s has prior art. Elons fragile narcissism know no bounds.

Oh look, it’s almost as Meta is an untrustrworthy actor that plans to EEE the fediverse. I consider any instance that federates with Meta a lost cause, to be defederated as well.

Thunderbird is a pretty decent client, and OSS to boot!

NO

At this point, you will either try to mitigate the harm caused by proprieatry software by adding as many Open source programs to your MS system, or treat the underlying cause and install a FOSS OS.

Ah yes, lies on how North Korea is a stalinist hellhole and not a workers paradise, right?

At this point you might as well design an app that is 100% ads and give the users a cut of the ad revenue.

It depends what you mean by “mainstream”. If by that you imply that the Fediverse will become a true public forum, and a place to exchange ideas and form opinions, then yes, I would like for it to be a counterweight to legacy media and corporate content silos. However, if the fediverse becomes yet another astroturfed propaganda outlet, then no, I do not want it to become mainstream. Fortunately, the loose Fediverse network makes it hard to take over and control, provided that the ActivityPub protocol remains untainted by actions of bad actors.

As much as I try to sympathise with the author, he seems to suffer from a terminal case of Twitter-brain, where we all comment on the current-thing until we beat it into the ground and then find another current-thing to dissect to death. Some of us like to separate interest and usernames, without setting up a data mineable online profile. And what’s with Disord being touted as an alternative? It is ok for coordinating and communicating with your gaming buddies, but completely unusable for any forum acivity.