Calling GNOME a radically different interface is kind of overstating it. It basically just replaces the taskbar/dock with the overview

now that arch has an actual install script, i’m not sure if there’s much reason to use an arch derivative instead of just using arch

For as many marginalised people I’ve met who would feel discomfort around remaining federated, I’ve known just as many that get stressed out and exhausted by conflict over what to them seems like a ‘minor thing’, because of the vitriol, spite, etc. that comes with it. Especially when, as the other person above alluded to, some people seem to get involved in these things specifically for the sake of conflict, rather than any meaningful political stance.)

This was my problem when I tried mastodon. There was always some drama between instances over some minor thing that people decided was the most important thing in the world

The overview in the spec is probably as good of a summary as anyone could give you.

But some of the comments for that video suggest that they aren’t able to connect to people outside of that bubble, since these people’s instances might block NSFW ones.

I think a lot of times that’s due to the risk of hosting potentially illegal federated content from nsfw instances.

doesn’t the average american read at a 6th grade level or something?

Otherwise people will flood it with Child Porn

reddit returning to its roots

They’re probably not too worried about people getting them mixed up with 15 year old CPUs

4chan definitely got worse. like it was always edgy and stupid, but after 2015 every board just kind of became /pol/