I am cautiously hopeful that fedi will become significant in a while.

Sounds like you had issues exclusively with hardware, perhaps you should’ce gone for a different manufacturer. My personal anecdote has never seen anything break (that I didn’t cause myself).

Fediverse allows you to filter languages you know and this is the way the filter knows what language the post is. I’m sure you can just not select a language but it runs the risk that some people might not see it.

On a complete derailment, I just noticed my post go from 50 something points to 553. I clicked upvote myself and it went down to 5. As I wrote this message, it went through random numbers and is now sitting at 765. 😖