I’d like to use a Linux phone, but it has to run Android apps though. They Gotta find a way, else it’s never gonna happen.
I’ve tried Plasma Mobile on a Surface tablet. It does not look like that.
Add to that the butt ugly blue and yellow icon from the 90’s.
Diaspora had it going on I found. It’s a shame it didn’t catch on. And that they didn’t adapt it to ActivityPub.
Reactionary to what?
Why cancel lemmy? it ain’t perfect, but it’s not a bad platform.
It’s mainly a developer tool based on Git, a version control system. You know how to can go back to a previous version of a document in Google Docs for example? It’s kinda like that, but more powerful.
Github adds a whole layer around Git with issue tracking and other project management tools, as well as automation tools to name a few.
It’s mostly used to track progress and change history of source code. So when you clone a Github repo to your local machine, you essentially get a copy of the files and their entire change history along with it.
So yes, you might need to compile the source code, depending on the programming language used.