Edit: thanks everyone for the suggestions!
Do keep them coming as it might be helpful for others who come across this, since it seems quite a few users are (understandably) bleeding from lemmy.world these days, like myself

I was looking for a solid instance to move to, but I'm getting burned out from trying to find the perfect instance that:

• is based in a country with reasonable privacy reputation (if it still fits the bill, outside Europe too is fine)
• allows creating communities without admin approval (I'm willing to try getting into one of those too if needed, hopefully it would be accepting of creating niche communities though)
• doesn't defederate indiscriminately

The tool I used is lemmyverse.net but it seems the filtering isn't working great, or I just don't understand it, e.g. I filter by Italian language and the only Italian instance I know (feddit.it) doesn't show up, while a slew of irrelevant ones is listed (Lemmy Português is there??)

Sorry if I sound so needy

Is it ok to post personal projects regardless of size?
What I mean is, if we can post, does it have to be something actually good and useful, or can it be little toy projects as well?

Do we know any more about the plans of Tumblr for when it will join the Fediverse?
Matt did say "ASAP" at the time. Start of July saying they're still working on it, did he simply underestimate how big of an undertaking it would be?

In this video I see that the top panel somehow stays visible when they enable the overview effect, but I found no setting to do that, is it because I'm not using Latte dock, but using the built-in panel instead?

Update 2: Finally did it by following the first option I explained in my own comment (i.e. backup and reinstall)

Update 1: I also updated the UEFI just to be sure and the issue persists as expected

Sorry if the post is long, trying to give each relevant detail.

My system has two drives, the first for Linux and the second for Windows.
Initially I had OpenSUSE MicroOS on the first and I could boot into Windows through the UEFI, but then I installed Fedora on it and lost the ability to get into Windows since. I thought that it had a boot partition on its own drive, but I guess I was wrong since now that I checked the partitions, there is no FAT32 partition on there.

(in text form)

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nvme0n1                                       931,5G disk              
├─nvme0n1p1                                      16M part              
├─nvme0n1p2             
  

Don't get me wrong, bringing more visibility to the platform will always be good, but wanting to jump ship from e.g. Jerboa to a port of one of those proprietary apps (Boost, Sync, etc.) kinda defeats the point of using an open platform in the first place.

I fully believe that each app developer should get their work recognized and make their apps paid if they wanted, I'm sure many will be inclined to buy them from the store still because of the convenience and/or wanting to support the developer.

But I think alongside the API conversion there should also be a shift in the development paradigm that follows up on the culture of the whole platform, Lemmy is free (as in freedom I mean) software, most of the Fediverse is, of course no one forces you to make your client free too, but the developers should feel encouraged to embrace that way of working and in turn users should be attracted to options that were made so, that will also foster powerful growth of the platform when everyone can