Absolutely, it's a good move. I've been recommending that to friends who are hesitant to branch out of Debian and are over Ubuntu.
I'm hoping mint eventually makes LMDE their default. Tho until then, even just a baseline install of Debian is easy enough these days.
I'm on endeavour for my devices, def a solid option!
I like what the mint team does on their end but I'm over Ubuntu. If mint shifts their base to debian I'll consider it again.
You can apply arkenfox or Betterfox to fennec in some somewhat hacky ways via adb (or less hacky if rooted)
Wild that people are concerned when Bazzite has a completely different underlying toolset vs SteamOS.
Want arch? SteamOS Want fedora? Bazzite
Tbh Bazzite has an important role going forward: pointing out any bad decisions by valve and offering an off-ramp if valve enshittifies.
The rednote move is mostly a form of protest. People are fully aware its a dumb idea for privacy.
Fediverse by design is ideal for institution-based social networks for sure. Each school hosts a server and federates with the nearby institutions (possibly in a limited manner so it's still focused on your group but you can easily interact with other people from your city)/school district too.
Maybe the school has two servers: one for active students, another for alumni. Some configuration for letting people say "only fill my main feed with stuff from my graduating class +/- 2 years" and so on. When you graduate, you get auto migrated to the next server.
Hometown sort of tries to do this for cities as a Nextdoor replacement (and even nextdoor for a long time tried to keep things hyper local with optional visibility elsewhere until they caved to ad money and NIMBYism)
This. I basically didn't use my facebook for the last 6 years and i left it deactivated most of the time. My thinking was that people could use messenger to reach out to me (and my family has mostly been using messenger for stuff anyeay) but even then, that only proved true for a handful of circumstances, and the people who did make use of messenger or a non-deactivated account all had my phone number anyway.
Would my experience be different if I was more active on facebook? Eh, maybe. Maybe I'm an oddity, but most of my high school and college connections barely post on facebook as it is, if at all. I didn't lose much by finally giving it the axe last week.
It still has a real impact on the people being harmed. I dont know if bullies getting social consequences for their actions outweighs the pain they have already inflicted.
That said, hopefully better information dissemination will help anyone being targeted to find better places where bullies are defederated/moderated for being shitty humans rather than based on shareholder value and kissing the ring of a dictator.
The momentum on a lot of the "popular node.js package but for Deno" packages died well before they added npm: specifiers and more support for node builtins. Aside from a few notable outliers, denoland is full of stuff that hasn't been updated in 4+ years.
What I like about deno is that I can do everything with web standards, then fill the gaps for server-side needs with the node standard lib. Web standards have come a long way for server code thanks to web workers, but there are still some missing pieces. The deno experience is way better with web standard libraries and jsr, so my hope is the momentum will continue to head in that direction such that the npm: and node: imports just become nice-to-have capabilities for niche uses.
Its less censorship AND an allowance of actual hate speech.
Tiktok has been useful for several groups that are normally extremely supressed with other algorithmic social media. Tiktok isn't geared towards the "what will make you angry therefore keep scrolling" or "what will make you buy more things" motivations that facebook et. al. are geared towards, so it will actually show you things you care about. It also has a tendency to show you opposing viewpoints from time to time, which makes it surprisingly useful for deprogramming people from misinformation.
For people with specific medical disorders or conditions, tiktok was excellent for finding others and sharing information. For people of different minorities that are normally supressed on social media, it was excellent for building community.
So sure, if all you watch on it was dancing teenagers, that's what you are gonna get: Vine 2.0. If you curate your feed a little then it'd help you branch out from your interests without the primary goal of keeping your eyes peeled to it or grabbing more ad revenue.
if you are part of a group that tiktok was basically the only social media network that had ever been helpful for, it's a big deal that it's going away. Its not about the format of the videos, but the algorithm and its focus on your interests rather than making money.
Matt Colville's YouTube channel has a ton of this kind of content, especially during his "Running the Game" videos where he did a lot of the prototyping for MCDM stuff as well as how to make narrative ideas fit into a system based on the intent of the system.
He talks a lot about d&d 4e which serves well for this type of content since it was such a different system than other d&d/d20 in general, and also very much the opposite of fate/apocalpyse world/other narrative-focused systems.