It's necessary because the website is transparent, if you were to federate with an instance, you'd need this information in order to moderate your instance, in order to check for bots, and various other things, that's the only reason it exists.
Really, what it should come down to as an individual is that all of the x11 devs left to work on Wayland because x11 is unmaintainable.
Use Wayland if it works for you, if you find something that doesn't work, go back to x11 and find the issue tracker and switch back if you care for the benefits later.
The benefits:
The only problems I have currently is sway doesn't support single window capture and the XWayland clipboard isn't great.
No, these are projects to improve the state of lemmy, they are in order
tafkars-lemmy, this will allow reddit apps to work with lemmy by simply replacing the URL, essentially. Meaning we'll have all the 3rd party apps that reddit broke.
automatically staying on your instance when provided links to others, this will make it so that you don't get kicked to another instance when somebody gives you a link to a community, they're also adding instance-agnostic linking.
the final thing automatically compiles communities into lists, so that you can easily find all of the communities of a certain type and subscribe to them all automatically, and look at them all at once.
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