Oh, I found Graphene excellent! It’s just the notifications are pretty essential and I cannot get them working outside of one app. That’s the only reason I criticized it.

Are the Jolla and the FLX1 harder to swap OSes on if needed, like you said? I’ll consider the Fairphone as I know it’s the most popular option, but I’ve also heard criticisms of parts not being available or software support being dropped. Few and far between but considering how much good press it’s gotten, I’d appreciate your take on that. That said I’m sure they wouldn’t mind using an app emulator as long as it’s functional. I’ve helped them get Windows games running through Wine on Mint and also got them the BizHawk emulator for old games and stuff, so they’re no strangers! haha

But hey, thanks so much for this, it’s really helpful.

Tried that too. Its not federated and generally just didn’t like me lol

Sorry, I don’t knowingly support crypto bros or war profiteers if I can help it. Plus if in looking for an alternative to a bad service, I’m not gonna give cadence to the platform already doing shitty stuff, just for it all to crash again once that one gains traction.

I’ve heard Matrix was involved in some crypto bullshit and military operations of some sort. I want an alternative but Matrix is just shady enough all around for me to stay the hell away.

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Then ball-ify the mixture and shoot it directly into your opponents’ mouths. Might break a few teeth but they’ll taste alright going down!

I love how this goes along with another reply saying vegans are too weak to play. Shit, man, I’d like to try paintball but if I’m forced to use marbles then yeah I guess I am too weak lmao

I second this, I wanna know

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Damn that’s… Really sad lol

This Movim thing is giving me really good vibes! No AI in sight, nor crypto shit. Thanks so much for the suggestion! Why don’t I hear anyone talking about it? If you have any other smaller open source projects to suggest, please let me know lol

looks at our existent (but remarkably shitty) healthcare system, the insane costs of living even when forgoing any sibilance of happiness, and the fact that we were gonna slide into fascism too if it weren’t for the USA doing it first Yeah, better look somewhere else, I’m afraid…

Thank you for the info. I looked at people discussing Matrix for ages here and nobody brought this up? What the hell?

Do any of these options offer screen sharing with audio? That’s literally the only thing I care about in terms of one on one chats that only Discord can do.

Yeah, I think that makes sense, thanks so much for the explanation. I should ask though, in that case, should I move myself over to one of those services? If so, which do you recommend? My account here is only new so now would be the best time for me to switch.

Hey I know this is an old comment but could you elaborate on this? I’m trying to choose between Matrix and Stoat and no matter which is better, Matrix is out of the question if it’s into crypto bullshit.

Ahh I see. So while there are multiple instances of Lemmy, all of which are under the shitty devs’ thumbs at the end of the day, the mentioned Piefed and kbin are totally different things by different people with similar functionality but no bigotry? Or are they just different instances OF Lemmy like I’m posting from right now, in which case, what makes those two special?

Thanks, Imma quote this when some dumbass shrugs at me and says we’re all fucked and there’s no hope left. Like, I get feeling depressed about the state of things but it’s such an obvious cop out that it makes me livid whenever I hear it.

I can’t tell, are you actually opposed to windmills? Aren’t they a good source of clean energy we should be moving towards?

Gotcha, I think that makes sense. I don’t know much about Piefed, but hey, if it works it works. I prefer Lemmy anyway because it is integrated like that.

Sorry I’m only getting back to this now, but thank you! I do understand instances and whatnot, but I guess my question boils down to this: if the whole of Lemmy somehow gets influenced by the shitty views of some or all of the devs (I’m not sure how many there are), and a fork is needed, does that bring down all of the instances and existing infrastructure of Lemmy with it? Like, the existing instances won’t be able to upgrade to the latest version, and then if they use the fork instead, will that screw with other things? I guess this is a question for a programmer, but it’s on my mind lol