I think masto and indie/fedi microblogging makes sense for seeing the empherial now that you are interested not topic based content. (Especially on small niche instances via the local feed) its a also great way to meet like minded people and build longer lasting connections as you see more of a person via their stream than only seeing them in niche spaces. Granted many people single topic their accounts, but masto is way more personal and less influencer type accounts than Twitter was, though those accounts exist too. You can still follow topics, but that's a way of finding new people with shared interests not necessarily only deep diving in a topic.
Lemmy and topic forums in general are great at deep diving in a topic, but since you stay in the niche while you might see people frequent in that niche you really don't have those longer interactions. Some forum communities try to mitigate this by having general chat posts or chat rooms on the side.
Different kinds of social media have their strengths.
IndieWeb and the Fediverse really cover the social aspects quite well, and far better than Twitter ever did. I had to do almost as much work setting up my curation on the Fediverse as I did on Twitter, and I had to block far less since I wasn't getting fed crap for "engagement" stats like on Twitter. You can still follow Twitter personas there too via tools like bird.makeup, though its a one way feed.
It's not so much the instances but the communities that are important on Lemmy, unlike most of the fediverse. If your community's instance is federated with the big instances, it helps get people to your community either way if the post shows as a link on the bigger instance or the host instance. Hopefully crawlers will eventually add some smarts so we link the host instances eventually too.
More accurately someone who knows nothing about German, writing, or carpentry but learns German and carpentry by reading hundreds of thousands of books and then decides to write a book about carpentry in German.
Yeah that really made it hard to convince normies to use it. Have you found a similar replacement that does e2e privacy if both using the software and sms/rcs as a backup if not?
Wine and crossover can probably meet the needs of most of your windows app needs at this point, which realistically aren't a lot if you look into it, and keep a windows vm / cloud instance handy. Why not try a vm of Linux on your windows machine (or use WSL) to get your toes in the water to see if your assumptions are still correct today?
With NACS becoming more and more universal, and soon to be a true standard, will we also see fast charging of other devices like e-bikes and lawn tools using the standard?
Mastodon's default 500 character limit is arbitrary, and can be changed by the instance admin, but most other AP alternatives (check out calckey) don't have a limit. It'd be cool if Tumblr does actually federate though.
Follow your friends, check out your instance's federated feed and follow some people there (if you aren't self hosting), follow some tags, and follow a trending bot like @popularposts@masto.ai
I'm lost on this one.