“A Song of Ice and Fire” if you can accept that the last books will never be written

You can’t even install it on Linux, they killed the native app years ago and now tell you to use the browser version

Link previews happen if you hold click on a link or choose it in the right click menu. By default it shows pretty much just the title of the page and a banner asking you to enable ai summaries.

It’s kinda annoying, but not because of the ai. And you can easily disable it

The Fediverse isn’t federated.

All those clients are ActivityPub, not say some Twitter, some Facebook, some Bluesky, etc.

How is that different?

That’s the old way to support calls. The new way is MatrixRTC/Livekit. Not all clients support it yet, but the website says commet supports that too.