now that precompiled binaries for Linux systems are becoming more popular,

Uh, what do you think was in the repositories all these decades? They can contain just the source, but that’s not what most people use.

While the universal nature of SNAPS makes them useful, they will inherently take up a lot more space.

Ah, so you’re talking about those… Yeah, but for those types of packages, including all the dependencies is kind of the point, they’re meant to run on whatever distro where the packager has no influence in what libraries and other dependencies of their software is or.isn’t present. They also bolt on things like sandboxing, so it’s not entirely the same as the distro packages you get through your apt/dnf/zypper/etc.

I wouldn’t even call that an apology. One “sorry” and some verbiage alluding to things being better at some mysterious point in the future.

Of course, hollow words is basically what social media is made of, so you’re not wrong…

They wouldn’t have to do it all on day one, everything keeps working fine the way it is, this would be an addition, right?

There’s some functionality in Mastodon that’s not in GoToSocial, for example, but that’s not keeping me from living a rich, varied, activitypubbed life, so to speak.

Plus all these platforms are open source, so if people want the functionality, they can make it happen.

Doesn’t even run Outlook, let alone two. Pathetic.

Yeah, it has chat. Nothing too fancy, at least not back when I last used it (which, granted, is decades ago) but chat it has.