What is the benefit of using Mastodon, over the cost of learning and maintaining a new platform? Make a business case.

Yes, but rarely. And you won’t get banned from .world for a slight criticism of China.

go to Lemmy.ml

I’m gonna stop you right there, I’ve already found your problem. Try introducing them to instances that aren’t militant.

But, since all of Lemmy is run by those guys, maybe just skip Lemmy altogether. I honestly don’t see a future for it with them in charge.

You’ll need to be specific about which news community. Because if it’s lemmy.ml, yeah, we don’t go there for a reason.

But even if it’s any other, yes, Lemmy is designed to allow each instance admin to run it as they see fit. If you don’t like it, you will have to go to another or create your own.

If you’re going to post it to a Lemmy community, I would that that that should be considered long before you reach the “post” button. Like if you’re going to share a link or write a text post, you should already be familiar with a community in mind. Please don’t post something to a community as an afterthought, especially if it’s not really that relevant.

It’s because it gives a nice dopamine hit. Just like a still-image meme but more so because it’s video.

I’ve never been on tiktok so no

People actually use that one? I only ever look at the ones I’ve subscribed to.

Oh, I didn’t know that. Everything I’ve heard about it associates them together.

No. It’s already owned by multibillionaire Jack Dorsey.

I had the same reaction. I’d like to see this graph for OP. (And also a sentiment analysis of their comments.)

Every time I’ve looked it just said “mod”, even though sometimes I’m pretty sure it’s been an admin.

I think you’re reading way too much into the goings-on of social media. Attempting armchair psychoanalysis of people you don’t agree with usually gets you the response you’ve been getting.

As they say, if everywhere you go it smells like shit, might want to check your shoes.

Doesn’t look like this addresses meme comments, either image or text based.

Agreed. Open source it and let everyone review it.

But even if you don’t have experience, it’s easy to gain. Start with OWASP, find some static code analysis tools, and run fuzzers. It’s a good start.

Every time you look, they add another day

That doesn’t affect access to any of the Mastodon servers.

No, it’s not possible. The openness of the platform means even if one instance decides to paywall, everyone else keeps working just fine.

It depends on the captcha and the bot.

Yeah after reading the comments, OP is definitely the one in the wrong here. The hexbear response was remarkably tame.