You're correct, I was moreso referring to federation in general.
I think it's really cool here. The people have been mostly friendly, the communities I'm following are decently active, and new features are being added every day. I honestly have very few complaints.
I'm not really sure, but then again I also didn't really understand the point of Twitter, so I'm a bit biased.
If they do both-ways federation (I've heard rumors of it being one-way only) it should theoretically be both Lemmy and Mastodon, but it will work better with Mastodon because they're both for the same purpose (i.e. Twitter-like apps).
My personal hope is that the ActivityPub standard prevents this from happening. After all, I've seen decent federation between Lemmy and KBin and they're entirely different platforms, nevermind a fork of the same software.
It's fine, as long as you enable 2FA for Google and make sure to maintain access to the account you're secure. It won't have all the fancy features that some of the other apps have, but if it works for you then it's good.
I use Bitwarden, and pay for their premium services. I really like it, it helps me keep track of all of my accounts, I'm able to keep all of my individual account passwords secure and unique, and I'm able to autofill my login credentials on all of my devices.
Out of curiosity, what problems are you having with the drivers? I have a GTX 1070ti graphics card and the drivers for it have been ok on Linux, the integration hasn't been as smooth as Windows but I haven't had any problems.
This is such cool work! I'm glad that VLemmy and KBin are federated because seeing content like this makes our greater fediverse community feel really cozy, and it's inspiring to see the love and passion people like you are pouring into your work here.
Yeah, the smaller communities on Reddit were still really nice, which is why I wasn't initially eager to leave. It's unfortunate that it had to turn so shitty, but I honestly knew it was coming as soon as they announced that they were going public. The stock market and shareholders are really bad at building things with longevity, so when a corporation goes public it usually starts making bad but short-term profitable decisions until it goes under.
They changed from inside jokes to community jokes. It's sort of like how there are jokes among programmers that any of the tens or hundreds of thousands of us would get, but would fly over the heads of people not in the industry. Reddit jokes just turned into something that someone would get if they were a Redditor.
A Reddit is when you destroy a social media platform because you're angry with its users. It's a common billionaire or wannabe billionaire move.