As you can see, I choose Feddit and not Lemmy.ml as my instance. One of the main reasons was exactly to avoid joining the flagship instance. I speak German so Feddit seemed fitting.
However the communiy on Feddit is really small and most posts don’t get any answers. Therefore it’s probably better to stick with lemmy.ml until the Lemmy galaxy in the Fediverse gets big enough to justfy more planets (instances).
Firefox is my brower for years. The latest and ongoing fuckeries from Mozilla make me mad, so I’ll probably switch to Librewolf. I have Chromium-based browser for compatibility reasons (mainly video conferences, Youtube sometimes). I won’t use any Chromium as my main browser because I care about diversity and don’t want an effectivly Google-controlled application.
For search I recommend DuckDuckGo or Brave. Personally I use a recently setup private Searx instance and I’m quite happy with it.
I did only glance over the article. I like that you think about the fediverse and how to improve it. I’m amazed what’s already possible even at this point right now. However I agree that especially the interaction of different Activity Pub implementations needs to become more natural to use. I want to be able to login with my account on every application on the fediverse, not to have to create one on each platform.
Yes, which is also the reason I don’t feel to switch the instance yet. But i mean…
63 users / 6 months
is a bit underwheliming imho.