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.

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

Stack exchange is CC licensed, and they host a lot of user content.

Could still get hacked, but the point stands that is an extra level of verification.

Not a huge surprise there is a large anti-capitalist faction on lemmy, so this isn’t terribly surprising.

I’m no meta apologist, they’ve done enough to warrant skepticism. The reality is they can harvest the data even if you defederate their main instance, by setting up shadow instances or just scraping other instances, so that argument doesn’t really hold water for defederation. The bigger one is content vs spam coming from their instances and possible EEE measures, but immediate defederation only serves to keep them siloed off and does not let them function as an offramp to better instances for regular users.

The difference is here you can manage your own feed and pick and choose. Many folks don’t want metas apps on their device but wouldn’t mind some of the content. Folks that don’t want it don’t have to sub but those that do can benefit second hand.