Yes, I feel like the days of old reddit are numbered. We better be ready for the influx of new users when they close it.

He removed the ability to see likes made by some profile on the profile page itself.

Yeah, I’ll be honest, never have I took a look at somebody’s likes on Twitter or Mastodon.

They can’t be completely private because instances have to share how many upvotes each post has. That’s a limitation of the fediverse, since everything is spread across many independent systems, data has to be exchanged across them.

As of now, they’re semi-private because end users can’t easily see who voted on a post/comment unless they manage an instance themselves.

Yes, I may be wrong, but spinning up your own instance would also let you see new votes from now on, not votes on old posts. Which makes it even harder for trolls and morons.

This guy scats.

Nice! Interoperability is great! 🤩

I wonder what happens if I upvote your comment via Lemmy 🤔 do you see my upvote in Friendica?

I agree on the choice paralysis. I ended up with Feddit.it because my native language is Italian and that’s the biggest instance in my language.

Try searching for a local community, especially if English is not your first language.

If the dbzer0 instance allows piracy talk but I’m signed up to an instance that doesn’t allow it, can I talk in their community or do I risk being banned from mine?

In other words, are my comments stored on their instance or on mine?

You’re partially right, but it would be better if users were evenly spread on many instances.

Imagine if one instance becomes so big and then they de-federate. For normal users, nothing would change, but then we would have created the new R*ddit

Because they increase usage of the apps. People just doom scroll and keep playing.

It’s a horrible thing IMO

I agree with this. We should leave the door open to Threads users that may not know the Fediverse.

We can always de-federate later if Threads misbehaves.

I wonder what happens if somebody recycles a domain that was previously used for another instance… I feel like everything is going to break.

It’s possible to backup your data, but you have to do it beforehand. There’s no chance to save your data once the server goes down.

It could be millions only if hundreds of Mastodon/Lemmy users start following hundreds of different Threads users.

Which I don’t think it will be the case, since it seems like Threads federation is going to be opt-in by their users.

If 50 Mastodon users start following 100 Threads users, the impact will be negligible, since Threads will only push messages by those 100 users.

The EU also has an official Mastodon instance:

https://social.network.europa.eu/explore

In some ways, I trust my data more with a highly scrutinized company such as Meta than a random weirdo spinning up his instance with a home server in his cabinet.

Let’s federate with Threads. Let’s not jump to conclusions beforehand.

I want to give them the benefit of the doubt and see how they behave. We can always defederate later.