Rejected me too during the initial reddit exodus a month ago. I said I was looking for a reddit alternative, that I mostly lurk but occasionally post on tech subs as I am a software engineer. No response for a week then rejected around the same time they defederated. Figured they were just mass rejecting people at that point. Was already actively using accounts on lemmy.one and lemmy.world by then. I just use lemmy.one if I want to see Beehaw content.
I’m on a raspberry pi so I can’t transcode shit! Instead I just got an Nvidia Shield for the TV so now I don’t have to worry too much about it. Although I do still have trouble with some audio codecs, not sure exactly why I think it has something to do with my tv or HDMI cable.
Chrome also seems to direct play anything, it’s the only reason I keep it installed anymore.