Because the political right doesn't actually like functional markets.

I don't drive a BMW, so yes.

The constitution means whatever the guy with the biggest guns says it means.

Just buy a Steam Deck instead.

I really don't understand why smart people put their eggs in the proton basket.

Big (shady) money rule Switzerland. A Swiss server or company isn't safer or more trustworthy. Quite the opposite.

Nice. Fuck you Nvidia.

This is a good time to convince your employer that the company should switch to Linux workstations.

Can left leaning or liberal minded Apple users please switch to Linux now? There really is no excuse. Fuck Apple.

I will make it easy for you.

Get yourself a Framework Laptop: https://frame.work/

And a Fairphone: https://www.fairphone.com/

I'm an active user who post and comment regularly, and I would say that the experience is very similar to Reddit. Except for less adds and smaller numbers on the main/all page. The experience is probably very different if you're mainly a passive consumer of content.

Though I've never been active in "large" subreddits and I tend to block them from my feed. So guess I don't know what I'm missing.

That kind of behavior can also be a sign that the documentation is hard to find or hard to comprehend. Or that something isn't documented at all, but the seniors imagine it is, because the answer is obvious to them.

Remember that most people don't even know there is something called "rankings" or "indexer" in this context.

People here need to realize that 90% of the microbloggers don't give a fuck about decentralization or FOSS. They want something that works and doesn't force them into a ketamine fuled nazi oligarchy delirium. Mastodon doesn't work for normal people. It kind of works if you're a FOSS nerd or some kind of fediverse idealist. (It works for me, because it doesn't drag me into endless flame wars and I'm almost only following FOSS accounts).

My experience with Lemmy is that it is much more functional as in "Reddit replacement". There are of course super few users, but it feels active and engaging (for better or worse). So in theory, maybe it could be a replacement.

But Mastodon has never been a "Twitter replacement". It feels more like a fancy RSS client. Search, feeds and interactions just doesn't work very well.