An excellent summary. I think instance owners shouldn't be too quick to block threads. ActivityPub was built around low trust, so why not give them a chance?
spyjoshx
Me, but with Fedora or Debian
You're likely looking for Prism Launcher. It's a launcher that makes it easy to manage instances and download modpacks. It's available on flathub.
Time for me to get on my soapbox. I'm constantly on the other end of what you just described, and I'm hopping mad about it. I work a large-ish retail chain for office supplies and tech support, and their "rewards" program is now going to be exclusively available through the phone app. The client base is almost exclusively old people. You can imagine how well that's going. But even if it were allyoungg people, STOP MAKING PEOPLE DOWNLOAD YOUR STUPID APP. Our store's performance is judged by how many app downloads we get in a week.
As a tech support guy at a retail store in a region of predominantly old people. This is EXACTLY what their laptops, desktops, phones, tablets, and literally everything else look like.
Totally didn't see the .de at the end lol. I don't even speak German! >.<
Currently a Fedora guy, and have been for a while. Who knows if that will change tho...
Hello from tchncs.de!!
Sounds like I might be the youngest here lol. I started with Ubuntu 11.04 which I would live boot off CD in my school laptop. After I got my own laptop with Windows 8, I used Windows for a good long while until the thing got super slow after having windows 10 for a while. That's when I got back in to linux.