Links2 saved my ass a couple times switching to Linux this last year, still a staple when you prefer reading on a real screen.

Nah now you just switch to a TTY with a bunch of sick Rust terminal tools, or if its really borked you boot into recovery mode and mount the old filesystem and do magic spells at the filesystem until it works.

I think if we had co-ops running some of these systems it would definitely alleviate some issues

Honestly Mastodon is the closest thing atm unless you can get more people to join Friendica