I don’t have an answer for you, but maybe you and your friends could get together and start your own? The beauty of the fediverse and all that.
I don’t have an answer for you, but maybe you and your friends could get together and start your own? The beauty of the fediverse and all that.
A qualified yes. I love the overview, which is, IMO, the most elegant way to launch applications and manage workspaces of any OS or DE. I also love the general look and fluidity of the environment and how it gets out out of your way when you don’t need it. But I preferred the pre-GNOME 40 vertical workflow to the new horizontal workflow.
There are also three must-have extensions that make GNOME usable for me:
Login issue reportedly fixed with 0.18.2 update: Lemmy.world updated to 0.18.2
I still favor native packages, but I don’t have a problem with Flatpaks. I’ll use them when a program isn’t available in the repo or there’s a compelling reason to have a never version of an application. I’m on Debian Stable, so I’m obviously not obsessed with having the newest, shiniest version of everything.
What about running the Flatpak version of Brave? Flatpaks are containerized and should contain compatible libraries.
To add to what @lordnikon said, the program is called Software & Updates and I’m pretty sure it’s installed by default in GNOME (don’t know about other DEs).
I’m a boomer and I’m here. Although I’m probably the exception since I’ve never had a Facebook account and you couldn’t pay me enough to touch anything Meta. Probably because I fit the rest of OP’s criteria: way over 30, tech worker, Linux user.
As @flloxlbox said, it will either happen organically or users will decide to merge communities, like the Android community did. It’s the way federation works, it’s not something that can be forced on people.
Kbin already federates with Mastodon. It’s not a single feed, though, they’re on separate tabs. Kbin currently works okay, but per the devs it’s an early beta so there’s more polish and features to come.
For the record, I’m not sure that combining the two platforms in one feed would be desirable for most users. It seems to me that Lemmy and Mastodon serve different purposes: Mastodon is for broadcasting your opinions to mostly-passive followers, Lemmy is oriented toward conversation.
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This is what people aren’t getting. The fediverse, as it is now, is irrelevant to Meta’s plans for Threads. Meta views the fediverse as an inducement to get creators to join Threads. Per The Verge:
As Mosseri puts it, this is a move designed to appease creators who have grown increasingly wary of relying on the whims of centralized social media companies. “I think we might be a more compelling platform for creators, particularly for the newer creators who are more and more savvy, if we are a place where you don’t have to feel like you have to trust us forever,” he says.
I use it because that’s what my Linux distro packages. It’s fine, but unless you’re averse to change there really isn’t any reason for a regular Firefox user to choose ESR over the regular release. I do occasionally get flagged by websites for using an out of date release, which is kind of annoying.
GNOME does have a launcher, which works just like the launcher on Mac and Android. You can even select whether to see all your apps or only the most-used ones. I do agree that a taskbar/dock with intelligent auto-hide is a must, though (at least for my usability). That’s also not to say that some folks would rather have a Windows style launcher, and there are several DEs that provide that.