I will say, I would watch a show with these characters.
This is a worthwhile rant. I believe as the masses divest themselves of centralized services the types of dialogue that take place on the fediverse will even out. Currently how the federated world stands is similar to the early days of reddit, which was a home for the tech crowd.
Try booting into console mode. Maybe there was a botched update that needs to be fixed. Below are some instructions on how to boot into tty.
https://www.linuxuprising.com/2020/01/how-to-boot-to-console-text-mode-in.html
I accept this fate.
When you say internally, do you mean behind a NAT, or something to that effect?
MacOS is derived from Darwin but heavily modified and now closed source. While GPL is copy left, BSD has no such requirement so you can effectively make your derivative OS closed source, which NeXT and subsequently Apple did.
In a nutshell Android uses Linux as it's base so I don't believe they could make it closed source, where Microsoft Windows, like Apple MacOS, have always used their "own" kernel allowing them the flexibility to keep their software closed source or source available.
With the growing ubiquity of self-driving vehicles I don't see this trend reversing either. This will either have to be changed via laws, or with open source firmware/software. The latter could be a liability but that's a separate discussion.
What is old is new again.
I'm quite shocked Elon would implement a policy that is counter to the purpose of twitter... As controversial as it is, doomscrolling is probably twitter's biggest busines
They mimic the apple application format to some degree and it is a great way to distribute. The real detriment is sandboxing but with more support this could be included.