Flaky

Probably to experiment with it, or maybe it was a good idea back then. Definitely not to extinguish it lol

Means there's no incentive for Google to support it.

Limited essentially means the instance is put in quarantine. AFAIK it won't appear on the federated timelines but users can still follow and communicate to them if they desire.

Yup. I guess the gist of it is, Linux is great for just general gaming, but if you've got something specific, it's just not there yet. (I see a bit about VR too)

How so? I don't see the EEE in Google discontinuing XMPP support tbh.

And racing sims. I was talking to someone on Bluesky and they said the lack of racing sim gear support is holding them back.

I remember people complaining about Bluesky's lack of privacy, and tbf there's a lot of privacy/security theatre they do that makes a lot of mixed messaging, but people presenting the fediverse as this privacy-friendly alternative is... laughable, for the reasons you stated.

Yeah the detailed explanation would be very helpful. It's nice that Lemmy has the page at least (and I learned something new today), though that is just Lemmy and the fediverse is much bigger than that. I believe Misskey and Pleroma share it similarly to Lemmy, while Mastodon allows admins to hide it from the public (which, as I said, will act as a barrier to those wanting to sign up)

Yeah there's a similar tool for the wider microblogging part of fediverse (Mastodon, Pleroma, Misskey, etc.) but because it was made by an edgelord it gets dismissed. I get the vibe some instances just don't want to share that information, which is important when you're basically dealing with web infrastructure, and get mad when you seek that information out.

tbh this is a general issue with the fediverse. Some instances aren't transparent about who is being blocked and why. It made it a whole lot more difficult for me to figure out what instance I should go for.

Pretty much, yeah.