It's worth a shot at the very least. If it's not for you, not a problem. I know people who prefer their own self-hosted Pleroma instance to Bluesky, as well as people who prefer the culture and ecosystem of Bluesky right now to fedi. Hope I cleared some things up at least :p
I've used both fedi and Bluesky so I might be able to chime in, here. I have both my praises and my concerns for both fedi and Bluesky but I'll probably post that elsewhere.
Bluesky is an implementation of a separate federated protocol called Atproto. It was initially designed for Twitter but after Elon's acquisition it has spun off into its own public benefit LLC, with the creator of XMPP in the board of directors as well as former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey. I don't know if Jack is still on it though after he got bullied off for being a crypto-bro but it doesn't matter, the code is open-source and you can spin up your own server.
The "invite-only" part of Bluesky is Bsky.social, the flagship server instance for Atproto, but there are servers being spun up waiting for federation and in the future, bsky.social will be open to the public. AFAICT they want to get the federation right before deploying it to bsky.social, rather than just winging it and having federation break. There is a federation sandbox for developers to help get the federation just right before rolling it to production. They have considered ActivityPub, which powers the fediverse, but they wanted account portability which neither ActivityPub nor the software that powers the fediverse were intended to do. Follower migration is a thing on fedi but not post migration, and they want to solve that problem.
For me, Bluesky is much busier than fedi. Furry artists are popping off a lot more on Bluesky lately. One thing people tend to ignore is human behaviour. Most people want a place where they can chat to their friends, that's why Discord is strong to this day even though XMPP exists. Truth be told, only tech nerds care about federation, most other people just see it as unneeded complication. Add to the air of elitism that's in this very post (not from you, fyi) and which is across the fediverse, and yeah. I can absolutely understand why some people are choosing Bluesky right now over fedi.
Bsky.social isn't federated yet, but they do have a federation sandbox for developers. I don't think they want to put federation into the production server just yet.
IIRC there's also servers waiting for federation, I've heard there's a Russian Atproto server.
For regular gaming experiences, WINE and Proton are brilliant. For some .NET stuff it's still lacking. On WINE, MusicBee for example lacks proper CJK font redirection and dragging the tabs on it causes MusicBee to throw errors. You might also run into issues gaming if you have certain setups + controllers too.
There's still weird bugs with Plasma Wayland unrelated to GPUs too. For whatever reason, dragging a file from a notification (e.g. Spectacle when a screenshot is saved) to Discord will make the shell just quit and restart...
I gave Pulse - a recent Firefox fork - a try and the minimalist UI (in comparison to base FF and Floorp) was really nice. Then I tried Simple Tab Groups to replace Vivaldi's Tab Workspaces and it was better than Workspaces for me.
And then someone on fedi linked Sidebery and that basically combines STG with Tree Style Tabs. Sidebery didn't play nicely with Pulse's native sidebar features so I'm on base Firefox with similar user.js tweaks as well as hidden tabs.
The article is pretty old now, especially since there's more Firefox forks than just Pale Moon and Waterfox, but it just boils down to "forks might not have features or security updates that Firefox will have". Wonder what the Librewolf and Floorp guys would think of that now.
I like buying CDs so I have a backup in case things go very wrong. The fact that a CD is the same as a digital file but physical plays to that advantage.
That being said I think I'm thinking on starting my own vinyl collection now - got the bug thanks to buying a 7-inch from Grouper. CD and vinyl have completely different but still valid use cases.
Not sure about the hardening but as a former Vivaldi user I hope this fork flourishes. I recall Mozilla saying they want to focus on Firefox's customisability and this cranks that to 100.
Nice to see appreciation for it in the comments too. With things like HowToGeek's article on how Firefox forks are the devil, I feel it can hurt Firefox's image.
Floorp is still Firefox at its core as it's still using Firefox's UI and building on top of it, while Chromium can be embedded into a GUI (see Vivaldi and projects like CEF and Electron). That doesn't discredit it, in fact some of Floorp's changes are pretty good for customisabiity and user experience. That being said, I was told that the engine powering Firefox was able to be embedded but it had many issues to the point where integrating Chromium was easier.
On a similar note, I know Pulse Browser is part of an overarching project to make forking of Firefox an easier job, and I know they and the Floorp people are friendly.
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if I recall, Mastodon actually lets you change the character limit per-instance.
That being said, nice to see some love for Firefish here.