Hey! Seems my instance can receive posts from yours; both !godot@programming.dev and !programming@programming.dev seem to show the latest posts (newest one is from 19 hours ago). Can this federate back?

edit: I made a whole comment on the issue page without realizing that 19 hours ago was also when you fixed federation... congrats on getting things to work! And maybe my coffee shouldn't be as strong...

I remember managing to get this issue solved on my computer. Looks like a QT issue. I may not remember exactly how I fixed it, but try the solutions in this thread and see if it works: https://lmms.io/forum/viewtopic.php?t=34104

In particular run export QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=0 and then run LMMS from the same terminal.

Also in response to other comments, LMMS is actively being worked on (though updates have been slow) -- the last commit on the master branch was from 3 days ago, so that suggests that the project isn't abandoned but development's just rolling slowly.

I know, yeah! Talking a bit with you folks here really motivated me to actually start posting some content here, and honestly, on Lemmy in general! Apologies if this was a silly question because looking on it in retrospect yeah it's a bit weird to start making another community when there's so little content in Lemmy that there doesn't need to be that kind of distinction (and that kind of fragmentation might actually end up harming more than helping).

But about my first point, who knows though... you might see some pictures of dergs turn up somewhere here. Maybe...!

That's true, yeah. I do really like how the Fediverse is growing (and quickly too!) so we might see that start to happen later on (I sometimes already see a bit of niche communities on Lemmy being created). But at the same time, I do have to agree that although there's less posts, there's a genuineness to each post that really makes me appreciate them more.

Yeah, Podman is definitely one of those things I would say to do the latter with. It's functionality is the same as Docker though (commands work almost 1:1, and even docker-compose works with Podman), it has better integration with other system components (like automatically creating systemd services to start containers when a computer is restarted), and it gets you away from Docker as a company while still being able to access their containers on Docker Hub.
In the end though, I'd recommend sticking to what you're familiar with. It's always better to administer commands to your server that you know will work rather than learning as you go and hoping something doesn't break.