I’ve had this argument numerous times on here and I do not care to have it again, but I’m just going to say this. If you define lemmy and Reddit as social media, then you are defining almost the entire internet to be social media and this is the outcome. Governments will regulate that term, to include everything, and restrict almost all of your online activity in the process. That includes websites like GitHub, Amazon, and Wikipedia. It includes StackOverflow and the Git mailing list. It includes Google and PornHub and Netflix and Weather.com.
This is the inevitable outcome of defining social media to include forums…places of discussion. To define social media as sharing things. Stop defining lemmy and Reddit as social media and maybe things will get better. But at this point it will be hard.
They literally give an example. There is no equivalent of Lightroom on Linux. Yes there are alternatives, but they aren’t even close to the same capability. Same for any sort of photogrammetry software. If you’re using RealityScan or 3D Zephyr you must switch to Meshroom (which is honestly terrible) or Metashape (which is ridiculously expensive and also Russian). If you use Meshroom you’ll want to use Meshmixer to clean up your models which is also windows only. Some of these things you can run in WinApps, but it’s not enjoyable. I was unable to get Meshmixer to run at all, with winapps or wine. I am able to run Lightroom but it’s slow and defeats the purpose of editing on my desktop, which is to be faster than editing on my MB Air.
These are just a few examples, and just for Windows. There’s plenty of Mac examples as well. If you have a workflow, or already own a product, and you try to switch to Linux, there is an incredibly high likelihood that you are going to have to learn an entirely new workflow or are just going to be outright unable to switch.