"Could", but "won't".

Heck, under Trump rule, the US might declare any browser not Chrome as illegal.

Admittedly no idea, given how fascist pretty much everyone is turning these days. If the world was 30% less crazy, Switzerland would be pretty much the best option; nowadays, things are strung so that they just get dropped to the same basket as pretty much the entire rest of the EU.

I've always thought that "for humanity" projects should not be restricted by the whims of a self-centered legislation focus, and instead should be able to be put under some sort of "international waters" or "citizen of the world" jurisdiction-esque. Now if Session qualifies for that, I dunno, but it's definitively a thing that should exist.

You federate with Threads

Nice try, fed.

In what regards what normies would use of the featureset, they are identical tho - pretty much everything is identical these days. Log in, go to your timeline / flood / jeep / whatever, click "post new", copy-paste a meme, hit toot / blarg / weep / whatever. There. Done.

99% of people use the exact same 1% of the features of a service.

Though maybe that future needs to be delayed, because the Fediverse needs to lose its “yeah our app can do that thing you want, just edit a few variables in the source code”-style github energy.

Self-defeating: that "github energy" is not going to get lost if first not enough people use the Fediverse that having to make that kind of change at the source level becomes a hindrance.

Switzerland? Didn't they push Protonmail to collaborate with big corpo, anti-environmentalism, and persecution of activists?

What? Regulating Elon's enterpreneuments? In this fine coming year of Trump 2025?

Finally, an excuse to buy remote.

Then you'll need some heroes to install it, even if they're a bit of a flat pack.

Sounds cute, but in the US electoral system having a "massive lead" among a state's {subset} of {subset} matters exactly zero. All that matters is having the lead in the whole state proper.

Going by some incidents with Protonmail, Switzerland is known to collaborate with anti-environmentalists and fascists.

7.8 / Too Much Water.

(trumpets soundfont when?)

If you are using Gnome distros: you can feel exactly what it feels like getting back to working in a restricted, overhyped, overbranded environment like Windows.

If you are using Ubuntu: you can get advertising during your system's software upgrades. No, really.

If you are using Arch: you can post aroudn the internet saying you use Arch btw.

Depending on the distro, you can use some alternative software stacks, but that's mostly the backend (eg.: systemd versus openRC, Apache vs Nginx, X vs Wayland); most "desktop app" level is mostly the same for each desktop environment, is kinda the point.

But yeah, centralization should happen.

Fam, we are here precisely because we don't want centralization.

If you want that, Reddit and Facebook and BS are that way.

Sad to hear about Radio Free Fedi, as I was just about to start recommending it alongside Soma for my average internet radio enjoyer pals.

Hopefully it lives on in spirit, somehow.

Not only that, he's likely using the whole "I'm Finnish" thing as an excuse. According to Wikipedia at least, he's now an American citizen living in -of all places, Silicon Valley.

It's Trump and the republitards who are taking the Russian bodily fluids, if you catch my drift.

Tell that to the Google and Microsoft employees collaborating on the kernel.

Not even Taiwan claims to be a country though. They claim to be the sole legitimate government of China, hence their actual name, The Republic Of China,

Isn't that, by definition, calling yourself a country?

I’m afraid that if the sanctions will continue to be a go-to method of dealing with geopolitical rivals, we may end up with a few divergent forks. One for US and “the west” block, one for [...]

Considering that that this idea of making a Linux for the US vs a Linux for "the rest of the world" was what made me ditch Fedora for Debian, it'd be a shame to have it happen to Linux as well. Like, sure, an alternative will emerge, but where does one go while that progresses to be daily-driver? Haiku?