Loops is new and still in beta. The dev has said that he wants to wait to open source it until he feels it’s current state is ready to be on other people’s servers (once it reaches 1.0). I can’t say I agree with the thought process but at least with pixelfed he did the same process and actually followed through on federation and open sourcing

Pretty sure it’s not removed, they just aren’t accepting any changes from the developer for the 6.13 cycle

Can I ask why you say Mastodon isn’t a good twitter alternative and maybe what it could do to improve? Sorry if I missed that part in the article

I believe it’s only RAID 5 and 6 that are unstable, https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/btrfs-man5.html#raid56-status-and-recommended-practices