I have been for years and haven’t regretted it. Run my own micro-blog with go to social, tilvids is an excellent peertube, beehaw for lemmy, and matrix is the only option when talking to family imo.

Linux Cast: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxcast_channel/videos

Chris Were: https://share.tube/c/chrisweredigital/videos

Veronica Explains: https://tilvids.com/c/veronicaexplains_channel/videos

Techlore: https://neat.tube/c/techlore/videos

Linux Lounge: https://tilvids.com/c/linux_lounge/videos

Nicco’s videos mentioned in the article: https://tube.kockatoo.org/c/niccolo_ve/videos

FYI: I’m linking to their home location, but you can follow them from any Peertube instance. I’m on Tilvids and follow all of these folks from there so I don’t have to jump around to multiple places.

Flatpak works on Steamdeck.

https://flathub.org/apps/org.DolphinEmu.dolphin-emu

• Jellyfin - Media streaming type app - basically use it for movies/shows and pictures.
• Joplin - Note taking app
• Syncthing - Sync for phones to PC for backing up pictures
• Miniflux - RSS reader
• Minetest - FOSS Minecraft voxel engine
• Veloren - FOSS Cubeworld game written in Rust
• GoToSocial - Microblogging server - aka Twitter/Mastodon
• Semaphore - Frontend for GoToSocial
• SearXNG - Search engine
• Conduit - Matrix server - chat
• Libremdb - IMBD frontend
• Invidious - Youtube frontend
• Nitter - Twitter frontend
• Libreddit - Reddit frontend
• Rimgo - Imgur frontend
• Proxitok - TikTok frontend

Failed to get working:

• Mobilizon - FB groups type alternative
• Peertube - YT alternative on the Fediverse
• Lemmy - Tried for a day and just couldn’t get it working. Found out there are issues with Rocky Linux and Lemmy that broke about two months ago but no further work was done it. I’ll try again someday.