joins open source decentralized community that's part of the FOSS social media alternatives advocating for a more open internet

is annoyed that communities can be split across the different instances of lemmy since there is no one central authority

is annoyed that there are a lot of leftists driven off the big platforms by the rise in aggressive centrist or center right moderation to cater to advertiser demands

is annoyed people there really like the largest open source operating system

While I can agree that the tankies are horrendous and echo chambers don't lead to good communities, it's an unfortunate side effect of just not being big enough to invite enough mainstream opinion. At least two of those can be solved in time if Lemmy grows in popularity.

The European elitism though, yeah, that's a shitshow everywhere, we're a stupid bunch.

I don't speak for all Linux users, but it's not like we don't like the tech or the concept... We don't like it because a lot of the time it's just another way for Microsoft to throw around their weight, you need a valid key to sign your kernel images with to be able to boot another OS instead of Windows, and some motherboards don't support installing your own keys as trusted keys. But usually there are ways around that issue nowadays.

And also it's not an easy process if you're not an advanced user of sorts. You have to know what is entailed, what to use, where to store your keys safely, have a script to re-sign the kernel image every kernel update(which happens every week on something like Arch), etc.