Semperverus

Lemmy was built as a clone of Reddit, but federated.

Reddit is and has always been called a link aggregator.

Lemmy technically aggregates links to things as its primary function, and then allows us to talk about those links.

After the Apple ruling basically forcing them to allow side loading, I doubt google would even be able to.

WhatsApp uses XMPP under the hood, but doesn’t federate with anyone.

It’s not us seeing Threads that’s the problem, it’s Threads seeing us (and thereby trapping all of us in their sticky web we tried to escape, what with their shadow profiles and whatnot).