(Then and now I mentally consider giving the KDE desktop a try again, that's a repeating loop every few years. And sometimes, out of the blue and more or less around the same time, I receive a notification from their bug tracker, hinting me that one of these usability issues that got into my way literally a dozen of times a day, that wasn't easily or in a pleasant way to circumvent and that seems to have been caused by a mix of lack of attention to details and technical complexity to do it righ - or just "random design" and not using things at all in the first place - is still left open and being discussed more than five years later and I'm sure I'll stay where I am.)

Each and every time users decides to stay on a difficult instance because moving elsewhere means losing all their history and communications, that bright north star of the Fediverse is losing a bit of its shine. (Just imagine losing all your messages while switching your e-mail provider... .)

Every other week I read about some federated social network instance running into trouble due to some system outage, either following human error or technical failures on actual hardware or infrastructure issues on some provider. And again and again this feels sad, given we're in 2026, we have decentralized approaches such as dat or ipfs around, and still, just all too often, availability of full services, user data and the like depends on virtual machines with some sort of "local" storage operated by small groups or even individuals. Where did we fail to get architectures more robust and reliable than that? 😔