Thank you for laying it all out there. It sounds like you're doing it the right way 🙂
Honestly thighs, legs, and wings for me are on pretty even footing depending on what I'm doing for a meal. At places that do whole chickens and not wings specifically, I generally prefer the order I listed. But wings from places that specialize in wings are really great. Whole breasts are just undeniably over by themselves as my least favorite way to eat chicken (even though I don't dislike them or anything, I just don't prefer them).
Legitimately asking because I never buy breasts, are they wicked expensive right now? Breasts are the worst part of the chicken for anything other than the total amount of meat IMHO because they don't have as much flavor and dry out really easily when they're only slightly overcooked. My order of preference is thighs>legs>wings>breasts.
It's almost not even fair to say they're merely contributing back to the upstream bridges. Most of the bridges would not exist at all without the Beeper developers.
It's also kind of funny that the section of their website you quoted still has language that implies you have to pay for Beeper when it's been free for months at this point. The primary reason to self host Matrix at this point is for privacy and complete control. And self hosting Matrix is only free if you use existing hardware and I would recommend a cloud instance for most people.
I don't think I've used a coin flip to decide anything in my life since my parents occasionally used one to decide something between my brother and I as kids (such as who would get first turn on something). Every time I thought to do a coin flip for decision making as a younger person, I'd find myself leaning toward and secretly hoping for one outcome and think to myself...this is dumb, let's just do the one I'm already leaning toward. Now it's not even something I consider doing when making decisions. I also go literally months, sometimes years, between touching coins now, so I'd have to ask Google to flip a coin for me or something.
Yeah, the defederation metaphor falls apart as you described because subscriptions to communities requires two way communication, which isn't going to happen because beehaw isn't going to acknowledge subscription requests from instances it's blocked. Instances blocked by beehaw would probably have to do the same type of thing Threads or Mastodon users would have to do to bring in Lemmy content by manually bringing it in via searching the federation link.
They did answer your question. Based off what they told you, one can reasonably assume Sync for Lemmy will be to Lemmy as Sync for Reddit was to Reddit...
That's definitely on the radar. Same for Android. There's some jank to clean up to ensure that it will be as smooth as it ought to be.
Make sure you're on the latest version:
Actually, I see that option isn't available in the home screen post 3-dot menu, so I'll look into that and see if it was intentional.
I used to pay for Google Play Music and get YouTube premium along with it, but stopped when Google decided to make a shittier app/service and drop it.
Unless you have a pretty beefy server, you really do not want to try to process and store all the federation events and data from everything on all the big instances. I would recommend just using one of the Lemmy community indexing tools to search and discover communities across instances and only join ones you and your users are interested in.