But still no getting rid of the EC or passing RCV by incumbents.
Tried Masto and Pixelfed, left after The Great Sellout to Meta. Trying Lemmy for now but it's limited in breadth and scope.
I'd like to see a fedi digest app more than anything, gathers it all up and presents it. Then if I want to interact I can sign up for one of them. But first I want to see where things are.
In general, the technically-discerning aren't going to care as much about quantity, more about quality and features.
I'd like to block every wealthy narcissist and never read their name or see their troubled insane faces in posts, I'm fed up with the narrative on both sides and have other interests.
So if Frontpage gathered it all up and filtered out the paid narratives and shills I get to choose, while letting me follow interesting minds, I'd be very interested.
If it had a prominent link to which instance, it might become clear what instance and software is best for me.
Right now I like Piefed's ability to filter and not Lemmys militaristic intentional inability to do so.
Masto filtered, but doesn't migrate well and now federates with the shitasses on Meta, which I don't want to consort with or support. If I want to sign up for Meta it's not hard, but I haven't ever done so and don't need coercive help from fake empaths running .social instances. I'm not a farm animal, Stux.
I think the fedi got it backwards, new users need to browse first to find what they want. I get it as a techie kind, but right now it's forbidding to many with all the unknown choices.
If Frontpage, someday, can also interpolate comments and vote between the softwares that survive, that'd be a nice thing to add to a browser that's already familiar to new users.
But I think it's way early for that. Kbin is already in the past, Mbin may or may not be a true continuation, the Meta connection nay not be worthwhile for their investors, bluesky is still a pig-in-a-poke for me.
One thing that is missing, again, is a digest to browse.
I kept my Incredible for over a decade, rooted it at a boring job within weeks of buying it and kept trying builds from a dev forum, kept a few on a sd and had clockwork.
I had one job that required 4, so before leaving I'd back up, then wipe, then install the 4.x build with their app on it.
At the end of the day I'd wipe and restore the 3.x build I was using, by the time I got home it was back to the way it was.
This is what I want in a phone again, not hide and seek with predatory data companies. Not only that, but it was fun and I learned things.
You can only choose from what billionaires want.
But didn't block any of the AI companies who stole from everyone.
I return mine because its an opportunity to get more steps in.
After taking it outside boundaries so a wheel locks up.
Look at tge people returning them in the lot, mostly fat and/or wealthy.
Decades of research destroyed so Reagan would agree to a bailout...now we have Stellantis so not a win.
Problem is, who knows what could have been done...who's going to judge?
The drivers got wider as well in that time.
And...
"Back then, sonny, we drivers were the crumple zone."
If you're not comfortable being by yourself, then that's the part to work on.
Some days you eat the bear...