I feel like 75% of Mastodon are people talking about Linux. If you don’t care about Linux you feel alienated. I enjoy Mastodon and Lemmy, but the lack of more diverse subjects gets to me if I browse for too long.

Update: I took your advice and purchased a laptop for Linux, and now I care about it! Problem solved.

    • LemmyInRedditSux@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      1 year ago

      Now you’re just being elitist. True, petrol-fueled cars cannot run without oil. But fediverse CAN run on different things besides linux.

      • mayoi@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        23·
        1 year ago

        And while you can use anything for servers, even Microsoft refuses to use Windows Server for their own servers and uses Linux based OS, so go figure.

        What else is there, your favorite flavor of BSD? Unless someone else already ported everything necessary, it will be a DIY project and you will be the one telling people about it.

        There aren’t that many options that just work out of the box other than Linux, it’s most popular, and practically just works for anything you can imagine self hosting, of course people will be talking about it almost exclusively, because using something else is a pointless duplication of effort for what purpose exactly?