It’s kind of ironic to me that Linux is all for free and open source, but still uses a proprietary platform, and a horrible one at that. Before the fediverse, I’d understand, but now, there is no excuse whatsoever.

I understand that we can’t just get up and leave everything proprietary behind all at once, since we have iPhones and Android phones. We all use proprietary software of some form, but I am of the mindset of using the least amount of proprietary possible.

I will ALWAYS look for FOSS first. I also want to make it as hard as possible for any corporation to track me. They’ll probably still be able to track me, but I’m not going without a fight.

I could say the same about the Linux kernel using GitHub, but I understand how massive of an undertaking it would be to move the whole kernel to another platform. I’m sure there are other factors, too. Anyway, I just wanted to start a discussion and hear people’s thoughts.
Thank you

  • Quack Doc@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 days ago

    A few things,

    • I often find the federation to just drop posts or comments,
    • sometimes a post has been banned and doesn’t even report being banned on other servers,
    • federation itself can be rather slow in many cases, and specific servers are even slower, you replied to this 10hrs ago according to lemmy, but I only got a notification 5 minutes ago despite using it off and on throughout the day.
    • you can have the exact same community name but on a multitude of different servers which can become complicated.
    • there is no button I can click to open the post on my server, which means if someone sends me a link and I want to engage with it, it’s a massive hassle to do so.

    there are other issues I have but these are the ones off the top of my head. It’s simply a far inferior experience to reddit.

    • DonutsRMeh@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      2 days ago

      Understandable. I personally don’t really care that much to make a list about the flaws of a social media site (no judgement of course). I just coast along for a little bit and go back to reading my books.

      • Quack Doc@lemmy.world
        1·
        23 hours ago

        very fair. I just came across this since I have accounts on multiple servers since its nifty to have some separation between things from public stuff and non public.