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Definitely seeing some people complain about the design changes

The great thing about Mastodon is, that you can freely chose what client you use. If you dislike the original client or web interface, just use Elk, Semaphore, Tusky, etc. whatever you prefer.

I only used communities that were on the top 35 active instances for the past month and limited the comments to go back to a maximum of August 1 2024

So it’s a map of the top 35 instances for the last month instead of a map of Lemmy.

Threads has about 200 million monthly users, 33 million daily users. The fediverse has just under 1 million monthly users. Do you really think that 0.5% has any relevance to Meta?

Do you really think they would care about those users when they extend and extinguish the Fediverse?

Everyone can break into my house regardless of having a key or not. I still don’t have my key delivered to them.

A is defederated from Threads, but federates with B. And B federates with Threads. Now Meta can cash out on your data via B.

Daily reminder to defederate from and block threads.net (and optionally all instances that do not do the same).

And why should an American cooperation care about that? They can basically do whatever they want without ever having to fear any consequences.

Remember, when they simply restored accounts, posts, and subreddits that were deleted during the API protests?

But “oTHer ThaN LemMy” …

Report them, and then block them.

The front-end is pretty much broken since a few months and there seems to be no admin with either the knowledge, the permissions, or the time to fix it. Federation seems to work, though. As well as the API for apps, but all, most, a lot of feddit.de communities moved to feddit.org with same name.

No more open issues, except the currently 85 open issues.

https://github.com/w3c/activitypub/issues

I deleted nur Facebook Account sometime ago. I cleanly left all groups, “unfriended” all accounts (most of those were inactive anyways) and removed all my comments and media from over a decade.

I don’t think I lost anything.

My timeline was full of advertising or bot post or mirrored content already available on other platforms. The only real interactions were in the comments and ever there it was soulless.

That’s great about the Fediverse, the different bubbles are much smaller but much, mich more personal and connected.

I wasn’t active there before that. To me Reddit just got more and more and more annoying over the last few years.

“Recreational” communities were banned, technical communities were flooded with only slightly related nonsense, meme and fun communities felt just dumb. A lot of communities als felt unfriendly and unwelcoming. Not within two days, but it eroded over the years.

At one point it felt like a burden to go through my subscribed communities feed. So I stopped using Reddit entirely during the protests and disabled my account (and it wasn’t re-enabled by Reddit to prevent loss of users) and I do not miss it one single second.

During web research I sometimes get a Reddit result. I change to old.reddit.com URL (I have a strict ruleset regarding cookies and JS and the normal Reddit is just shows an error message and I am not willing to change my configuration) to get the information, but that’s it. Neither do I interact with anything nor do I use any type of account.

ICQ for the Fediverse

You mean, like XMPP?

… but it’s pretty bad on “both sides” in my opinion.

Like Mastodon, but commercialized?

They slowly start it. When Google killed XMPP they also didn’t do it within a week.

Meta just pays enough.

The thing is, Meta does not care about community safety, or moderation, or protecting user data. (Fun fact: they don’t have a data protection agreement, but a data usage agreement.) All they care about is how they can get the most money out of something. Killing off things left and right of their path.

The question is not IF Meta kills the Fediverse but only WHEN they do it.

So wasn’t Google when they killed XMPP.