Didn't even know this was a thing, and since I live by multiple monitors, this makes me glad I've held off.

I believe programming.dev is the main instance for all programming related communities that left reddit.

Which is why all browsers cross identify as other browsers. This would make it easier for sites to block and harder for browsers to work around.

After Google approval, what is the size of the tester pool?

Had the same thought. Glad it's not just me.

You can install the kbin interface as a PWA on mobile, and it works pretty well. There are some kinks for sure, but it's 100% usable and better than lemmy.

Maybe they care, maybe they don't, but they definitely value convince over privacy.

Claiming there's savings just isn't true in reality. If they came out and said it's to help reduce energy consumption to save the planet I'd be all in, and I'm still in for this, but it just makes it hard to fully support with the gaslighting as you aptly put.

Coming in hot with the real answer as to why it feels that way on the fediverse relative to the rest of the internet.

Power Toys Run (from the paper toys suite) is a fantastic launcher that's better than the start menu.