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Check out distrobox. It’s a way to have a Ubuntu (or any other Linux distro) container and allows you to install Ubuntu packages, even desktop applications.

It works great for when you need to install a random .deb file or follow a very Ubuntu specific step by step procedure. I use it exactly for this kind of stuff.

No rebooting needed, integrates fully with the host system, no virtual machine either.

I have been using for years on servers. My lemmy instance is hosted on it.

Although for desktop I had too many issues back in 2019 so I ended up back to Arch Linux and then EndeavourOS

Would be fun to try again to use it on desktop

Thankfully the lemmy developers are aware of those issues and are working on improvements.

Looks like soon, viewing content will always be done through your instance and links won’t take you to other instances. The clunky way to search for communities on other instances if your current instance doesn’t know about them yet will get fixed too.

Multireddit style aggregations of communities are also being worked on

Plus these days there is a massive influx of users, once this stabilizes a bit all major instances will be federated and know about communities on each other, so many problems of discovery will get mitigated.

you can make only one account, but it has to be on an instance that allows NSFW. Then you can see NSFW from other instances too.

Many instances are disabling NSFW because it’s hard to moderate and the nature of lemmy means NSFW content could come from other instances and be problematic.

Like markipol said (sorry I don’t know how to mention users yet) in the other comment, this can be resolved without centralization.

For example “unions” of communities could be made that are the equivalent of a multi reddit. They would group together posts across all major “technology” communities into one feed.

Then anyone from any instance can engage via comments. Making a postswould require choosing to which of the communities iin the union to post to because each one would have its own moderators and rules.

Users would subscribe to the union to see technology contents across all technology communities.

Any user could create a union on any instance so major instances would have their own unions that include content from other major instances that they are in a good relationship with.

Would this not resolve the problem while keeping it decentralized?

I guess multi-reddit style aggregations “supercommunities” could also be curated and subscribed to and maybe even nested. This would allow users to find a “technology” or “book” “supercommunity” that aggregates all communities with the same topic across many instances.