Yes, electron.

And their desktop client technically is a browser without omnibar.

I was in the same boat, until my prayers weren’t listened and my hopes are now dead.

I lost some important data from my phone a few days ago. My plan was to backup at night but chaos was that same day in the morning.

Yeah this is becoming popular.

But in general, people somehow prefer platforms that look like Twitter.

Mastodon, Pleroma (and Gab, Truth based on Mastodon) and others are very similar in functionality with twitter.

I had the same thought yesterday. Every new social network or any new alternative is only a Twitter clone.

And just now I am thinking it’s because people want attention but not discussion.

I write my post, tweet it and it’s done.

Arch has many other advantages from my point of view. Like for example the wiki that also users of other distributions use.

I remember when started using #! and then Debian with Openbox. It didn’t matter what problem I had, the answer and solution were always in the Arch Wiki.

Now I am full Arch user.

Note that Lemmy doesn’t send any cache-control headers yet, so there is a chance that private data gets cached and served to other users. Test carefully and use at your own risk.

@dessalines@lemmy.ml pointed it out in the new release announcement.