If anyone has recommendations for ways to preserve personal computing, please share at !homecomputing@piefed.social

Looks like Skylight is app-only, no website.

I have to doubt the cost efficiency too.

Firefox is a Chrome alternative, Linux is a Window alternative.

These are not inaccurate descriptions, but it makes them sound like inferior imitations and gives the impression that they'll always be second best. It is also a kind of free-advertising for Chrome/Windows.

"A cool new place to share links and discuss things"? Or just "a cool new social media"?

Since anyone can create their own subreddit and become a mod there, does this mean that anyone can look at these profiles?

Another reason is to avoid the Reddit problem of people upvoting of off-topic posts by people who don't pay attention to what community it's posted in. I don't think Piefed/Lemmy/etc. has those kind of users (yet) but it's good future-proofing.

I've often felt that the web should work more like Git, so you can keep the content locally and just pull updates when you need.

You can view and post in channels on other instances from your home instance without switching. For example, I'm commenting from piefed.social

Quite the opposite in fact. Microtransactions offer the promise of fun, but never deliver, because in order to incentivise users to purchase them, the player must feel like the game is 90% of the way to being fun and that tiny additional purchase will get it there.

It's like the cartoon image of the donkey rider holding a carrot on the end of a rod. The donkey keeps moving to try to get the carrot, but never quite reaches it.

Quite the opposite in fact. Microtransactions offer the promise of fun, but never deliver, because in order to incentivise users to purchase them, the player must feel like the game is 90% of the way to being fun and that tiny additional purchase will get it there.

It's like the cartoon image of the donkey rider holding a carrot on the end of a rod. The donkey keeps moving to try to get the carrot, but never quite reaches it.

Perhaps some kind of fediweb that allows sites to rank other sites for trustworthiness. Then as a user you mark a few sites as trusted, and use their judgement to find more sites.