Skooshjones

Not sure, but I hope hundreds of thousands come in. Realistically, I doubt it will be that many, and idk if the instances could handle that kind of load even if it did happen.

But we can hope all the above!

That would suck :/ Would your posts still last on other instances, or would those be gone too?

I really hope this doesn't happen, but I fear the same. Often these corpos will just bet on people being lazy, forgetting how bad the scandal was after a few weeks/months, and just roll over for them.

I just hope Reddit utterly collapses as a message to the wider industry, but I doubt it will and even if it did, I think the message would likely fall on deaf ears.

I might jump on IRC. I like XMPP so far, but I'll need to spend a lot more time with it.

My brother and I witnessed a triangle-shaped craft with red solid lights on it cruise over our house silently with three black hawk helicopters following it closely. Flew super low and fast over our neighborhood, probably a thousand feet or less.

Super strange, to this day we still talk about it sometimes and it's a little freaky.

Nobara on my main gaming PC, Mint on my laptop, Steam(Arch-base) on my Steam Deck. Virtual servers, mostly Ubuntu, but I play around with Alma, Rocky, Raw Debian, and Arch.

I also play around with random ones on my laptop. Mint is the current one, but I rotate distros for that device every 6-12 months.

Glad you found what you were looking for!

Pop_OS is good, I've been using it for a bit on my laptop. On my main gaming computer, I have been using Nobara for over a year and it's been great. Very stable, only a few small bugs. Games run great on it and it's optimized for gaming specifically. It's part of the Fedora family and developed by the same person who created the Glorius Eggroll version of Proton for Linux.

If you want to stick with something more fully mainstream, then Fedora Vanilla is fantastic also. Just know that the default Wayland desktop will be a little buggy depending on the game/app. I still use X11 personally and will stick with it for another year or so while Wayland gets a bit more ironed out.

Overall, you won't go wrong with Pop_OS or Fedora for mainstream Distros. If you want a little more freedom and customization, go with Fedora and their Plasma desktop version. If you want something a little more power-user but still very friendly and slightly more optimized for pure gaming, Nobara with the Plasma desktop.

If you want total no muss/fuss vanilla, plug n' play, go with Pop_OS.

Links for you:

Fedora KDE Plasma - https://spins.fedoraproject.org/kde/ Nobara All versions - https://nobaraproject.org/download-nobara/ Pop_OS - You already know it lol.

Good luck and welcome back to the full Linux experience!

Same, the only social media that I'm interested in is the kind that is actually social. Communities that bring people together on their passions and interests. I'm done with mindless scrolling feeds and sites that make you miserable and convinced that everybody else's life is awesome except yours.

Echoing many things that other users are saying already:

Signing up/choosing a home instance is confusing. I don't think it's very confusing conceptually, but it is confusing from a UX/UI perspective. Subscribing to outside communities was the toughest part, I had to find them through a different instance using a search engine, then manually paste the community-specific URL into my home instance search, wait several seconds, then click into the community home page and finally click "subscribe."

Not something a casual user is going to want or even figure out to do. I trust that many of these growing pains will be fixed in the coming weeks/months. I just hope that it's not all a flash in the pan and then fizzles out totally.

Once using it though, I like the general feel of it. Better themes and some cleaner UI choices and it will be really nice imo. People are friendly so far and that's worth a ton right there.

I don't mourn Reddit, but I am sad that it's another example of the commoditization and corporatization of the modern internet.

Hopefully federated networks, P2P protocols, and FOSS software/frameworks are able to provide a robust and healthy web going forward into the future. The era of the free general internet is over, has probably been for a long time honestly. Now if massive companies want to stay afloat in that space, they will need to make huge profits. Everything as you are seeing nowadays, is being monetized and centralized.

Maybe this truly is late stage Capitalism and the collapse of it all is on the horizon, idk. But as long as I have an internet connection and things I am interested in doing on there, I will be trying to resist the corpos.

Long live the free and open internet!

(PS, power to the users, and I can and do contribute to the products and services I use from these wonderful people in our communities <3)

Yeah, I prefer native if possible, but I understand that it's not likely to gain much ground outside of the indie/FOSS community. Proton is a lifesaver, made switching over to Linux fully orders of magnitude less painful.