Probably welcoming, not every Reddit employee stands behind the decisions made by their management.

If they enjoy to browse Lemmy more then Reddit it doesn’t automatically make them unloyal to their job or a enemy of Lemmy.

Great! It is important for the existence of Lemmy that there is no central server.

Here are the other links:

• !lemmyinstances@lemmy.world
• /c/lemmyinstances@lemmy.world

Well, Windows isn’t that popular in the computer scene. Linux is by far more popular for servers, IoT devices (payment terminals, heartrate monitors…) and critical systems. But Windows has an edge in the PC scene. But to be honest a Apple Mac is also in the formfactor PC. These charts are always way of, just because their definition and monitoring techniques are not trustworthy.

The problem with Linux: it is opensource and free, and everyone can rebrand it. But at the same time everyone wants to make a euro out of it. There are a lot of companies that misuse its license by closing the source.

The top three instances a currently overcrowded. I recommend checking out a smaller instance (for example https://laguna.chat).

Smaller instances are still able to access to same content. But it is just a different server that processes the content.

It sounds like you are looking for a community that show cool visualizations based on scientific data. The idea of the community is more about the practicioning of data science. But I like the idea of a fact check visualisation channel.