Nice chair

It’s almost like federation and everything that comes with it – plusses and minuses – is the point.

Good call out. There used to be (and may still be) a scammer squatting on mastadon.com

Is it not just a more inconvenient version of making a reddit account and being able to post practically anywhere?

Reddit is convenient, but then one corporation owns you and they can decide to fuck over anyone for any reason. Hence the 3rd party app fiasco.

No single entity owns the fediverse. It is a little more inconvenient if your server dies, but other servers survive. It is a little more inconvenient if your server blocks other servers and you don’t agree with the reasons why. That’s the trade off for not having one centralized asswipe in charge.

Also what’s the difference between making an account at one instant and just making one centralized account for the social media?

Not sure what you’re asking. You make an account on one lemmy server and that’s it.

I’m immediately suspicious of “it used to” sentiments.

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Thank you, what I was thinking of, mvp

I don’t have the post at my fingertips, but big tech had taken over fedi-like stuff in the past.

There was some messaging app that was gaining steam and so Google connected with it. Now Google had the majority of users.

Some time passed and google was developing the software more because they can afford a team of a dozen programmers. Google introducts something that the original developers don’t like… maybe mandatory telemetry and ads.

Google thus breaks the open source community into two and the smaller one dies because they can’t connect with the big audience anymore. Your great aunt didn’t give two ducks about fediverse, but she might see a threads ad on her Facebook. Big tech stops support once the open source is dead.

Some details wrong im sure.

The tldr is that having a big stake in the social platform means you can steer it, even against the wishes of the owner.

Furry + leather daddy. Maybe some snoofing.

Don’t think it was federated at first if that’s what you’re asking.

It you’re asking why users didn’t migrate, probably because we like a forum experience rather than microblog following. I tried out bsky and it was a lot of pups. Like a lot. Like a pup fucking a pumpkin came up front page. I wouldn’t usually care, but it wasn’t marked suggestive.

Anyway, probably because there’s no pups on threads.

1 . There’s some good meme posts

|1 . my top post is a bg3 post

11. Spicy shitposts sometimes

1-. My top rated comment is a loss poem