Browser engines are the clients in a client-server system. Social media interactions follow a client-server-client pattern. Federation merely allows for something like client-server-server-client, and wouldn’t make sense for browsers.

What you’re probably looking for is simply communities built around forking the codebase of those engines for innovation and development. Those probably already exist, since that’s part of the cultural backbone of the FOSS movement.

Since my (leftist) instance is blocked, OP probably can’t even read this comment.

That irony aside, although I disagree that federated Lemmy as a whole is homogenous, it’s only natural that an alternative social network would skew away from the mainstream, and that instances would be relatively homogenous internally.

I believe this is by design, but to expect something else is unrealistic. The only options for Lemmy would be for it to be either further left or further right than Reddit. And there are a couple fascist instances, though they are blocked.

Gotta remember to come back in 8 hours lol. This might be a fun experiment, since basically every corporate social media wants to be tiktok already.

quad core laptops with IPS screens that can run up to 16 GB are like $50 nowadays. throw it out.

Feel free to send me the $50 bucks and I’ll buy one. I still won’t throw out perfectly functional hardware. Until then I’ll make use of what I have, thank you very much.

Didn’t realise I walked into comedy central.

By “stable” I mean that for the majority of the time I will not have any electricity or internet. My use case explicitly requires battery and offline software.

I’ll be away from both stable electricity and stable internet so I can’t just ditch a battery.