It depends on what circles you're in I suppose. But I suspect you're right for most people that dislike it. For some of us it's the Chromium engine it runs on, and/or the company it comes from.
Edit: So more ideological reasons. I imagine the browser itself works fine.
Oh I wouldn't say I'm a beginner. I've been scripting and coding for.. 20 something years. I'm just not very skilled. Stuff I write tends to be simple and small, so all I really want from my editor is auto indenting and syntax highlighting.
I think if I was trying to manage a larger project I might find use in an IDE, though perhaps it is more of a crutch.
There aren't viable alternatives. We don't have the active niche (and not so niche) communities reddit does. And even if there was somehow a meaningful mass exodus, these little instances would break like wet toilet paper trying to hold a bowling ball.
I don't say this to be critical of lemmy. I'm happy here. Just being realistic.
I had a similar thought. While I agree with the chorus that this is creepy AF and I in no way condone it, as a man who had to wade through these garbage dating apps to, fortunately, meet a long term partner I can attest to the profound sense of loneliness they cause. When I think back on it I can honestly see why some might consider this.
These apps suck, but in today's world they aren't always optional. My specific situation was living somewhere new at the beginning of the pandemic. It wasn't really possible to meet people organically.
NFT's never made much sense to me, at least in the way people attempted to use them.
Maybe they'd be useful as additional proof of ownership of a physical object? Like if they issued one when you bought a car, and you could use it as proof of ownership if you lost your title. That's probably a bad example as I imagine there's already safeguards in place for this in most places. And probably some other issues that haven't occurred to me. Still, conceptually I think it makes sense.
Too true. I have a relevant point to this that I noticed yesterday.
I run a Windows 10 VM via libvirt/kvm. All this VM does is run the OS and Microsoft teams. I need the full desktop Teams client for work, unfortunately. Everything was pretty idle and my CPU usage across all cores was at around 16%. After I shut the VM down, I was idling at about 3%. So it's using up like.. half a core to have some electron app idle. That seems ridiculous to me.
Fragmentation of a bigger (relatively speaking) instance will certainly have an impact on the fediverse. And that is unfortunate, I agree.
If you're curious to learn more about Beehaw's struggles with Lemmy and and haven't already seen these posts, there's a few on https://beehaw.org/c/chat
The short version though re: lemmy dev direction is there's no indication (last I read) that the lemmy devs have the same priorities as the Beehaw admins do. And that's ok, they can of course prioritize and develop whatever way they see fit. But that means beehaw is dealing with some pretty glaring issues for the foreseeable future. It's a tough spot.
I think an important thing to talk about here is that Linux is not Windows. Which I know is an obvious statement, but I'll elaborate.
Most deskop/laptop users use Windows. Most deskop/laptop software is for Windows. The way that most people know how to navigate an OS is Windows-centric. Windows does what most people expect a computer to do. A lot of what your focus seems to be on is if Linux can do what Windows can. And while the answer is often yes, I don't really think it's the right question.
Do you want to use Linux? If so, use it. One of things you'll have to accept with that is that you'll lose access to some of those Windows specific pieces of software. Sure, there's wine and steam/proton and you might be able to get any given thing running. But it's not a guarantee you will be able to, or that it will continue to run. If you're really beholden to Windows software, you should probably stick with Windows. If you're willing to explore FOSS alternatives to the software you're accustomed to, even if it may not work the way you expect it to, stick around. And you should, because Linux is awesome!
Frankly the Beehaw people are kind of nuts if they drop lemmy. It will be interesting what they think is better. I will believe it when I see it.
I'm personally on the fence on how I feel about Beehaw defederating or deplatformimg, if that even happens. But their concerns over lemmy are valid. It's not unreasonable for them to want something with less technical debt and better tools to protect their community.
It depends on what circles you're in I suppose. But I suspect you're right for most people that dislike it. For some of us it's the Chromium engine it runs on, and/or the company it comes from.
Edit: So more ideological reasons. I imagine the browser itself works fine.