Mastodon will go nowhere because most instances are run by losers who want to shield themselves from instances with different opinions and defederate from thousands of instances for little reason.

The most likely replacement will be threads or bluesky

MacOS: It just works

Linux: It just works*

Windows: Download the drivers online and hope it works and isn’t a buggy mess

The internet was already a nightmare already then

Not nearly as much as today, where a few sites control the majority of internet traffic.

flash itself was at least a security nightmare.

Agreed

Flash died and the internet became a corporatized globohomo nightmare

because I hated Reddit and this is rapidly becoming Reddit 2.0, just without spez

lmao this place is already worse than reddit. Somehow more reddit than reddit.

I recommend investing your time into a different instance and letting this one collapse.