i’m not on wayland so i can’t try any of these, but there are lists you can browse from (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Wayland#Compositors for example)

you are setting quite restrictive and arbitrary limits

well supported

what do you mean?

with smooth animations

what counts as “smooth animations”?

if your message boils down to “something which looks really good to me and that has a discord i can go into and ask for help”, you may have set the requirements tight enough to only include hyprland, but that’s not a valid excuse in my opinion to avoid boycotting problematic developers

your argument is a bit extreme, it doesn’t need to only be software from nice folks, it just needs to not be software made by not nice folks

apart from sqlite, i think everything is replaceable with a bit of compromise

what things made by not nice folks are you locked into?

lemmy is not a great comparison, there’s like 3 alternatives, there are tens if not more hyprland alternatives.

i don’t think software is just software, why would this tech be exempt? pilot-less aircrafts is just tech, just like software, but we do remember that drones bomb people. supporting problematic developers is not “as bad” as building killing machines, but it’s the same principle: looking the other way when it’s convenient. we should aim to ostracize and isolate problematic devs, and it starts by not using their software, because doing so gives them clout and relevance