Since there’s been a resurgence lately of the “mastodon is mostly just for folks who use Linux” thing …
… i’m now curious about my community here
(i’m offering intentionally crude and ungranular options in this poll)
“I use Linux …”
(Please boost!)
Personally I am in the “occasionally”
I float between a modern top-of-the-line MacBook Pro, a cheap desktop running windows, and a 13-year-old Thinkpad running Linux
@clive
WellActually(tm) the MacBook is running BSD Unix, that of which Linux was an imitation, so you're in the larger POSIX or *nix camp.
I'm almost sufficiently annoyed with Linux today to install a noncommercial BSD on desktop. (I already prefer BSD for servers.)
Of course, everyone using Android phones&tablets as their daily-driver in lieu of laptop/desktop are also Linux users, whether they know it or not. (Ditto Samaung TV with YouTube App.)
@clive
Your sample of course is skewed by who'd follow you here.
I expect a similar survey by some other FediFolk would get different results.
But yes, those of us who are passionate about FLOSS are likely to use one or more Linux distros &/or {net,open,free}-BSD and want to make this Fediverse open protocol federation thing (not just Mastodon 🦣) work.
(And given a choice of M$Win or Mac laptop by employer, we'd prefer real BSD to WSL comp[a|os]tability layer.)
@clive
I've got different ids here because of different communities of interest - so far, 2 🦣🦣 and one PixelFed 📷, and am also on 🟦🦋 because some people I liked at the former place will only/mostly be there.
Some of the alternative Fedi apps look interesting. I'm using github.io for MD->HTML blogging so haven't jumped on a Fedi long-form app yet, but it may happen.
(I might need to add ➕️ a mathstodon ID to more easily interact with their math-enhanced linear text in browser.)
love it!
Clive Thompson
Bill Ricker