I also mainly browse on mobile haha. However loading posts from my home instance is often taken care of by the app (client).

You should check out https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fediredirect/. This works for redirecting both communities and posts, although the latter requires to give your log in credentials to the extension.

wait re-toots (boosts) on Mastodon are not visible on Firefish?

The “John Smith” in Chinese is 王小明 (pinyin: wang2 xiao3 ming2), the 王 being the family name and 小明 being the given name. The 王 is a very common family name (like Smith), 小, small, is a diminutive prefix often added to nicknames, and 明, bright, is a commonly used character in given name. I should note that this is only used for males and there isn’t really a “Jane Smith” for females.

Taiwan actually. They banned anything other than Mandarin.

banning local languages was also done by my local government around 50ish years ago. in every school. take a wild guess at where I’m from?

(no, I’m not dutch despite being on feddit.nl)

Calm down. All I’m saying is that if the Fediverse wants to succeed and actually beat Reddit, Discord, and Twitter, we need to have more than Linux users (I am too) on our platforms.

A meme about Linux and BSD and all those nerdy things on a general meme subreddit community that has more than 500 upvotes (with 1000 being a really high number of votes)? If this post was back on Reddit, say r/Memes, it would probably only get 100. Lemmy needs to somehow diversify its demographics such that less technical don’t feel as alienated after joining. (To be clear, this is not a criticism on this post.)

Hey! I do that too

Wow, now that I think about it, it is quite scary. Hope that most instances stay alive