Ya, kinda tired of hitting the edges of my samsung, and their accidental edge touch protection’s kinda useless.

I’d have to imagine it would.

If you post something to the public internet it will be indexed.

Mastodon.social admin and lead mastodon dev Eugen Rochko signed an NDA with Facebook and has since been in support of Threads’ embrace of the Fediverse and asked people to give Facebook a chance. We won’t know if he’s made some deal (monetary or otherwise) with Facebook due to aformentioned NDA.

Many instances of the fediverse are anti-Threads despite his shilling though.

Stripped of executable code. IIRC the issue in particular was that sidebars observed HTML and you could put an iframe with potentially malicious code into them.

Ya, I like that they’re tech dictators. I think everyone should be more dictatorial with big industry. Do I agree with all the policies and regulations they come up with? Absolutely not. But at this point I’d prefer bad regulation than what we currently have from the completely toothless US regulators.

As someone who’s not an EU resident I love what the EU does because it tends to make the market better globally. See: iPhone switching to USB-C

Donations are a sustainable model for development. Less sustainable than government taxation, but more sustainable than ads, subscriptions, and/or fees by a mile.

Lemmy uses a feature called “groups” to denote the community a post is in. Mastodon doesn’t support groups yet. Once it does, I would think those posts may federate with Lemmy.

Yes

I like that bbc.social has a self-authenticating gTLD; a step up from a self-authenticating domain lol

Custom emoji was one, and another one in July(?) was in sidebars not being sanitized

These decisions are made by me and me alone

They’re really not though? You can’t just switch off AGPL without explicit permission of every person who’s contributions to the project are being relicensed.

You say you want good faith discussion, but you’ve completely nixed the main point we have today, with no room for argument. You may not know it, but you are coming at this in bad faith.

As a result, as the number of instances increases, the load on the network also increases. Ironically I think it should be the other way around

It’d be neat if there was some form of peer-to-peer activity-push to resolve this; basically offload your pushes to other instances, and in return they can offer some of theirs to yours. I think that gets quite difficult though, especially as large lists of federated/whitelisted/defederated instances come into play.

Congrats

I wouldn’t necessarily agree on that, but Lemmy is a more mature code-base which is a boon for sure in Lemmy’s favour. Kbin’s only been in development since Janaury 2021, with the canonical instance being as new as June 2023. Meanwhile Lemmy’s been in development since February 2019, with the canonical instance opening up in May 2019.

Even if you check the last week of commits;

To be upfront with my biases though, I prefer Lemmy just for the UI and UX. I find Kbin difficult and slow to navigate in comparison, and frankly, I find many of the least tolerable people on Lemmy to be from Kbin. Obviously this doesn’t include you, but my perception nevertheless influences my biases.

The beauty of FLOSS is that forks can come into existence, things the parent’s maintainer likes can be upstreamed to that project, and things that the fork’s maintainers like will deviate. There’s a nice ebb and flow, and there’s not really any need for one fork or another to “survive”. If kbin stops being used in favour of mbin, it wouldn’t be unusual for the maintainer of kbin to move into mbin development, even.

The problem with kbin is that the project maintainer was leaving PRs to rot for months. Even things like PRs to update dependencies for security patches weren’t getting updated. The community-based one looks to resolve that by running by simple consensus.

I’m not sure I agree that’s a good idea, giving full governance to the community like that, but since Kbin’s development has slowed, and the app itself has proven itself to be less-than-desireable to maintain, this is a good chance at finding new direction.

The whole landscape changes, of course, when Youtube gets put behind a paywall or goes under. This is a when, and not an if situation; video streaming with perpetual archival is not a working business model, and YouTube’s never churned out a profit in the 18 years its been online. But twitch and tiktok will likely be where creators move to. I don’t see large swaths of people moving to even odysee in the current online climate.