🤷 just my opinion as requested in the post. You’ve given yours. No idea what you mean about astroturfing

Probably not what you’re looking for but I find the https://alternativeto.net/ news pretty good for software

Somebody started this project a while back but I don’t think it’s live any more https://github.com/Flockingbird

I did this, we used https://masto.host/ and prevented other registrations. You can also make the posts invisible to people who aren’t logged in

Somebody was working on one but not sure it’s live any more https://github.com/Flockingbird

I succeeded using linkding which I’m hosting on pikapods https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding https://pikapods.com/

Just uninstalled Jerboa after using Lemmy on Firefox. So smooth! 👍👍

Another one here. Inveterate distro hopper now firmly anchored with fedora