Also, check out https://piefed.social/ - it’s not quite ready for the masses yet as it lacks many features, but damn it is so welcoming and friendly and fills me with hope for our future when I see those

Yes. Many people are too hung up on mastodon and lemmy to see that there are other software in fediverse. And if lemmy UI doesn’t quite work for one, they should try a different one. There’s no need to stick to the most popular software.

As for communities, there’s not much one can do about it.

Right when they are in talks about getting bought by Sony

Ok yes. I just checked and the new version is very fast compared to the version lemdroid uses.

The information density in the UI is crazy high.

Lemdro.id uses Photon as it’s default UI, but it’s incredibly slow and sometimes it doesn’t even load properly. As much as I love the polish, I wouldn’t recommend it as default UI. Using photon as an alternative UI is much better option.

it is technically bloat

If we go into that, then every GUI is a bloat.

For some reason I read the first part of the article in 60s news commentator voice in my head.

Also

For those potential members who’ve somehow figured out what they need from a server, it’s hard to understand which servers actually offer those things, either from outside the fediverse itself or from inside it but without a strong network.

Really important point.

“Microsoft ❤️ Linux”