@blenderdumbass >the Linux kernel
Please do no write that, as that implies Linux is more than a kernel.

If you want to stress that Linux is more than a kernel, please write; "the kernel, Linux", or "Linux, the kernel", or otherwise please just write Linux when you mean Linux.


Ubuntu or Trisquel or Debian or Arch are GNU/Linux distros, so you you want to write about general OS usage, like operating GNU software in GNU bash, you would write about "using GNU/Linux".

If you want to write about posting messages onto the Fediverse, you should write about that, unless you were complaining about the ridiculously low default character post limits of Mastodon.


GNU Social also implements OStatus, which Mastodon supported until they decided to abruptly remove support, without even giving the GNU Social developers a bit more time to finish implementing ActivityPub.