I forgot to say this at the time, but thanks for the response. You helped me to understand the issue.

Ah. Interesting. I sort of forgot about lemmygrad altogether. Guess that explains why.

I found a link to a list of who is defederated from whom on a “fediverse for beginners” post. I will see if I can find it again if you need, but it looks like some other commenters already got you covered.

I don’t understand this. I cant even name a single community native to the instance I use. I picked one that hadn’t defederated from anyone, and I block communities as needed. Also subscriptions are a thing.

Honestly I am mildly curious about this, but I am feeling a little too drunk and lazy at this point in my day to look it up and the linked article was not helpful. Can someone eli5 what has the French government so salty? Thanks in advance, -Cas

Not everybody is fanatical about it. Some of us prefer open source software, but practically speaking wont use software that is straight up inferior. “What are the benefeits of this product over this other product” is always a valid question, and needs a better answer than “because it’s open source.” At least for me.

I’m not saying that cherry tree is inferior software, btw. I used it for like 5 years and loved it.