Yes.
johnnymojo
joined 2 years ago
I'm finding Lemmy more to my tastes, though I do also like Mastodon and Pixelfed. I hope that one day I'll be able to switch between all federated profiles with a single non-browser app.
I tried federated social media 5 years ago, and it was much more lonely. We are growing, but will probably be much less populated than centralized social media for a long time. Keep posting, and spread the word to bring in some fresh blood!
Sometimes apps will have minor feature differences between play and F-Droid, I've found that most apps in both stores have the 'pro' (paid for) version on F-Droid, for free but maybe not updated as frequently. I got Jeroba for Lemmy on F-Droid and am perfectly happy with it, but, then again, my phone has been thoroughly de-googled.
Personally: Nextcloud, Kodi, Gogs, Apache2 all hosted on various Arm devices, all for my own personal use. Since I have only 4g connectivity, many of my servers are available as onion hidden services.
Interesting, but why install components that don't work, ie microphone?
I'm not sure about Silverblue, but on Fedora desktop I had to manualy add the flathub repository, but it's easy enough. I found the Fedora flatpack repo had a more limited selection of applications.
I find Fedora desktop to my liking: stable, customizeable and avantguardia. Just enough 'blobs' to work without losing weeks chasing down semi-functional drivers. Install software directly from their repos or through flatpack. They don't try to reinvent the wheel like some distros.
Corporate welfare, because the poor little capitalists just can't make it on their own...
Ubuntu keeps trying to reinvent the wheel, usually with triangles. It is unstable in a strange way, not because of the latest software but because of how they tweak everything. I always suspect it includes spyware. I moved to Fedora, which is just as avantguardia, but stable. If you like Debian based stuff, go with Debian Testing, and install the desktop and software of your choice.
A resounding YES