It sure does, and I am mentally prepared to move over to Hugo. I just haven't had the inner calmness needed to do so just yet, and I probably won't in the near future. At least I could still use WordTsar for it!
My own approach is that there is no way to reach me via WhatsApp. Whenever I need to reach someone who "has WhatsApp", I'll just use their "WhatsApp number" anyway. Only very few people seem to know that their "WhatsApp number" is equal to their SMS/iMessage number... ;-)
There is an impressive array of reasons to dislike Automattic and their software. My introduction was meant to avoid a lengthy discussion about those, because it would exceed the scope of my post. Alas, I failed.
If you prefer Rust, yaydl (disclosure: I wrote it) would be an alternative to yt-dlp. (Patches welcome - right now, I much depend on Invidious to get YouTube contents.)
In a way, Lemmy is essentially a reimplementation of Usenet. Decentralized, federated forums.
Usenet was never really "federated". All servers mirror slightly different hierarchies (with the free ones usually focusing on text and the commercial ones focusing on binary files).
What server do you use?
I've been a happy user of Eternal September (the name alone was awesome enough!) for quite some time now.
I don’t know - this hype about Matrix reminds me of XMPP which was similarly popular a decade ago. Today, nobody even remembers it anymore.