Spray all over your family for one last time.

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

Holy moly, the cookie tracker list on that site is longer than my arm! And I hate how deceptive is the “accept all” button - it implies it means "accept all settings, rather than “accept all tracking software”.

As for the article itself, the author presumes (or is being intentionally deceptive) that FLOSS is unsupported, and completely omits Canonical.

The only valid reason i agree is “don’t use FLOSS if it doesn’t support your hardware” but that probably means that you’re using highly specific hardware, or are suffering from vendor lock-in and should phase out the proprieatry hardware whenever possible.

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

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.

Let’s be frank, how many bong rips do you have before coming to this conclusion?

Then block all other instances and keep the one that is most relevant, if you are that bothered with cross posts. Frankly, the main value of link aggregator sites are the comments, and having multiple instances can be great for making comparisons.

Yes, absolutely! Although, I don’t get this “there must be only one” mentality regarding communities. R*ddit had competing subreddits, since the organizational structure was ripe for mod abuse, and the community often made an alternative. Worrying about duplicate communities kinda misses the point of site federation.