

I think Mint can be a bad option if someone has newer hardware, but the onboarding process is just so butter smooth for non-techies. From what I recall of bazzite, the onboarding process for someone completely unfamiliar to Linux isn’t the best.
And while Mint is bad for new hardware, Bazzite can be sort’ve the opposite problem. I have a laptop with switchable graphics that has massive glitches with Wayland still. Since Fedora dropped X11 support entirely, Bazzite unfortunately inherited that, making it impossible to use on my hardware. However, Mint worked with it flawlessly thanks to it still supporting X11.
The immutability aspect of Bazzite could be a massive strength for new users if they focused on their onboarding process.
Piefed is another reddit-like forum that is federated using ActivityPub (the same underlying tech that Lemmy uses).
Piefed is very similar to Lemmy functionally, and the creator designed it specifically to be as compatible with lemmy as possible so they can communicate with each other without a problem. You can even visit piefed communties from your lemmy, like !animation@piefed.social or !fullmoviesonyoutube@piefed.social.
Piefed is already compatible with a couple of lemmy mobile apps, like Interstellar and Voyager, so if we were to switch SLRPNK to a piefed instance, you would be able to continue to use those apps, if you already are used to them. You can also make the mobile web page itself into a web app.
The Web UI will be different from lemmy, which you can test at Piefed.social to see what it’d be like. We’d very likely create a custom theme for it similar to our existing lemmy one.
Piefed has some neat features unique to it, such as:
On the sysadmin side of things, it’d bring some nice advantages regarding network resource usage.
So overall, it hopefully shouldn’t bring many downsides, besides potentially having to learn and get used to a new UI (though Photon, which we host as an alternative web UI, will soon support it as well, making the experience pretty much identical if you’re already used to that).