Most of English instance are using Misskey-fork named Sharkey.

Misskey itself has tons of unique features that Mastodon don’t have, like threaded discussion/reply, Misskey games (only two for now), custom interface, emoji reaction like Discord/Slack.

Misskey?

They did.

There’s almost hundreds of dead social media that inaccessible, some even have zero backups. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_networking_services

Some content are just cached on other server, but not all data like credentials or full content.

That’s Substack platform fault.

There’s a game with exact idea that just finished Kickstarter several months ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQLIASwUO64

I don’t think Lemmy dev even have the opinion you stated above…

What makes the chart “only” on 3% is Chinese users. English Linux user alone has more than 6% percentage of Linux users.

We need Chinese government for their independent tech stack to include Linux further. At the moment, there are already several Chinese distro with big companies porting their basic apps to Linux (like chat app, office app, etc).

If Chinese gov force gaming company to support Linux as well, we will see a huge surge evenmore. There are a huge number of Chinese game that never made out of China, and exclusive to PC only.