CS: GO, Don't Starve, and many others work natively on Linux with no need for Proton. This makes for the best experience.
Gull
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Why are you "subtweeting" about this, just address the person who did it instead of pre-emptively accusing the entire Fediverse of doing it.
It's not like Redditors are all that nice in general, so why construct a narrative that it's so much worse here?
It's based on false premises like "everyone who ever downloaded the Reddit official app uses it forever"
Everyone who downloads the official app (like because they are blocked from viewing many threads on mobile) and then leaves it in disgust and never uses it again counts as a "download." That is very far from indicating what percentage of users are affected.
Unlike Reddit, there is no barrier to creating third party apps for this. Many of the problems that are softened by third party apps on Reddit, can be solved in the fediverse by communities and users setting up their own instances (with their own policies and customizations).
You can make your own Fediverse instances and do whatever you want on them, but you will get instance-blocked and you can't force them to "reason" with you about it.
If you want to exist in the company of others, you must regulate your behavior. This is not dictatorial, each person gets to say on what terms they want to deal with you or not.
If someone is posting like a Nazi, it will always be more efficient to block their messages from propagating, than to require each and every user to individually see their messages and then block them.
Flatpak has always been the Red Hat controlled play in containerized app packaging. Red Hat floods Flathub with auto-generated Flatpaks based on their RPMs. Flathub is becoming an app store with an obvious intention of becoming "the" Linux app store, displacing distro packages. Centralization is the whole idea. No significant number of people will ever use Flatpaks from anywhere except Flathub - unless Red Hat makes its own Flathub.
The differences among instances really do matter.
If Stormfront opens an instance tomorrow, would you say it makes no difference because they will all talk to each other anyway? You shouldn't. The example of Mastodon shows they won't all talk to each other, often for very good reasons. Like "that instance is literally Stormfront." You can expect that instance to have Nazi moderation policies, to normalize Nazism and to engage in Nazi brigading.
Imagine an average Redditor lands on one of the main Lemmy instances, where everyone (on penalty of excommunication) holds that Stalin Did Nothing Wrong, that Ukrainian culture and language should be exterminated and submerged in the Russian Empire, and so on. If that Redditor doesn't really understand that the instances are different in viewpoint and policy, they can reasonably conclude that the Fediverse is dominated by tankies. Meanwhile, despite their faults, Twitter and Reddit still exist and are not so clearly dominated by people who like to promote genocide. What does the average user think?
When Stalinists are running the main Lemmy instances, it should not be surprising if history undergoes sudden and frequent changes there.
There's an entire book on this predilection of Stalinism: "The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin's Russia" (1997), by David King.
More mundanely, posters on the main Lemmy instances should already have seen that if anyone mentions oppression by certain states, e.g. the systematic oppression of certain minorities, this will ironically be labeled as "racism." The racism of genocide denial is a Stalinist's bread and butter, and will never result in deletions or bans.
America isn't run by tankies.
Matrix's Code of Conduct says that they will not act on CoC violations that they find ideologically congenial. That's a blank check for harassment, and it applies to every forum which might be used for technical coordination around Matrix.
The Matrix Code of Conduct actively condones harassment as long as the Matrix people dislike your politics, which makes all the official forums unsafe for technical coordination.