That’s kind of the problem, though. That insane cash grab is profit driven. Spez said it himself in the AMA: Reddit is profit driven. That goes beyond makiong money to survive. That’s investors seeing a return on their money. That’s generating value in preparation fo that big IPO. That doesn’t usually mix well with the way a site like Reddit generates value: free community created content. Right now, Reddit is banking on enough users not caring about the protest, or the fact that the site is arguably on a downward trajectory. Looking valuable is more important than being valuable at this point.

Thanks Jack Welch for that kind of mentality. I hope you’re burning in Hell.

Oh, I get that theory, though I’m not sure I completely agree. Either way, unless I completely misunderstand how ActivityPub works, their instance can effectively be isolated to its own little sandbox depending on how many other instances decide to share with them. Further, if you’re on an instance that decides to share w/ Meta’s, you can skip over to another one that doesn’t. So Meta can be isolated by instance owners and/or users.

Well said. Boosted and upvoted… whatever those two things mean. Internet points to you, good sir!

I’ll edit to add that the main thing you point out that I think most fediverse folks want to avoid is the investment that leads to the IPO bag of cash. When the incentive is profit, I think social media can only ever get worse for the average end user. Keeping these things small and non-corporate is great in theory, but who pays for the servers and other costs when/if it needs to scale?

Let them! There’s nothing saying other instances have to federate with them. Kind of the beauty of the whole thing, really.

I think helpful bots, like this one, are generally a good thing. However I also think there should be a way for a community, either an instance as a whole or a community/magazine, can register their dislike of particular bots and/or have a setting to block them. Right now, I really want to block the lemmit bot. I don’t need or want my feed gummed up w/ Reddit reposts.

I’m surprised I don’t see more of this. Especially given that they all use ActivityPub. I know kbin is different than Lemmy, but an “all-in-one” app would be great.

Agreed. So far, I think it’s my favorite of of the dedicated apps. wefwef.app is also pretty good.

Normally I would agree, but it’s easy for kids to misinterpret the Bible. Most of the books that are banned as just stories. Sure, you can learn something from them, but they’re not passed off as guides by which to live your life. When people take the Bible literally, it can lead to some nasty outcomes.

Shocked it took them this long. I guess they had to go through the motions.

It still can be! ;-)

It’s not. One of the remaining devs posted that they’re working on getting a new Testflight invite going.

You’re probably right, but unfortunately my day job doesn’t like me spending all day tracking new apps! I threw this together this morning in the hope that it might help a bit. If there’s a better way, and there probably is, anyone is welcome to tackle it.

Thanks, updated!

Just did… actually lasted longer than I expected! Someone was removing all the community links and replacing them w/ the code repo links. Restored and cleaned up. The access is now comment only to anyone w/ a link.

Google Sheet for tracking this as well.

Sorry if that came off as dismissive. Was just saying Lemmy/Kbin/Squabbles(?) apps are “so hot right now.” Don’t want to chase down every rumor until there’s something more tangible than an “I’m doing this” post. I agree, it sounds great, though!

Nice! Thanks!

Thanks for the heads up, but right now that has to be considered a rumor. Until there’s at least a community and/or repo, it’s vaporware.

Fair point. I’m keeping an eye on it right now. If it gets out of hand, I’ll do that. Everyone seems to be behaving so far, though. Fingers crossed.

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If I’m not mistaken, that’s how the federation works. If you’re the first on your instance to subscribe, you only see new posts. Do I have that wrong?