D’oh!

~~They’re here: https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium/releases~~

It’s supposed to be multiplatform but I’m seeing APKs only?

There’s no real harm in that unless they spam, at which point those accounts can be banned which shouldn’t overwhelm moderators.

So far we only have a corpo fedi-twitter in form of Threads. In that case non-corpo instance user has to specifically follow someone before their content is federated so that sounds like a bit overblown issue.

That’s why I keep saying it’s pointless to defederate corpos. They’ll just scrape everything before you notice.

I was among reddit refugees a year ago and it took me a moment to notice what was going on ml and their communities were more significant in comparison to what we have today.

One of the reasons I’m on sopuli.xyz now is that it was one of the first reasonably big instances to defederate hexbear outright. Hesitance and outright hostility to defederate it from some instance admins was also worrying.

It’s the common spaces / topic-based communities that are mostly affected by this so there’s no escaping this if you’re here for the news etc

Even on gaming subs it seems like every other post results in a discussion about the evils of capitalism.

I think it depends on community, I avoid all .ml ones for that reason. Don’t get me wrong, I could go on about evils of capitalism for hours if prompted but the real issue is that most of the user base is 13 years old either in their actual age or mentally so you’re seeing same performative cynicism over and over again. I’m also getting a feeling that over last 3-4 months it got much worse.

Kbin support in Lunar is very rudimentary and read only. The app itself hasn’t been updated in 2 months so I wouldn’t get my hopes up.

Ernest is still posting devlogs:

https://kbin.social/u/ernest

I’m fairly sure Lemmy image embeds won’t be visible in Mastodon since it doesn’t have rich text formatting / markdown.

Yes, it was a good alternative, and it remains good alternative now although Matrix seems way more popular these days. Nothing really changed regardless of adopting XMPP because with a hindsight we know that for tech giants it’s the platform and not protocol that captures mainstream popularity:

The article lacks some details that are inconvenient to the point it makes. What was the state of XMPP before being adopted by tech giants and after they dropped it / walled it off? What could be done to prevent it?