The unfortunate truth here is that Reddit is a company and Lemmy instances are usually run by a few individuals.

We just don’t have the politic barrier or resources to stand against the pressure

It depends on the application.

I don’t remember all the specifics but this is the blog post I refer to when this topic comes up

https://codeblog.jonskeet.uk/2019/03/27/storing-utc-is-not-a-silver-bullet/

The only time using UTC breaks down is when any sort of time change gets involved.

If I say I want a reminder at 9am six months from now and you store that as UTC, a day light savings change will mean I get my reminder an hour early or late depending on where in the world I am

If you have the option of hosting it somewhere else have a look into OBS.

It’s open source desktop recording software.

A little more technical than Loom but if you get it going it will serve you well

That’s pipenv. Pip just has the capability to read and write from a requirements.txt, which is a step that must be taken manually