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This thread inspired me to stop procrastinating and deploy my own instance. On a brand new Debian 12 install (an LXC container in Proxmox), the process is absolutely simple and painless.

Aaaaand… It’s gone…

It’s not about standards. It’s about how “Meta” is going to use the data they’ll collect to manipulate and advertise to you in insidious ways. They don’t want to cooperate with the Fediverse, they want to control it. Those are the issues and the source of negativity.

On Kbin, hover the mouse over the “more” menu under the post/replies and click on “copy URL to fediverse”, that will send you to the original instance.

You can even read en reply to Kbin or Lemmy thread from Mastodon. I tested it myself and it’s awesome.

It worries me that all those communities moving to Discord will one day suffer though all this all over again, once Discord enshittifies and drives them out. Relying on a closed, proprietary and centralized service for user-generated content is a bad idea, as we all learned already.

That’s what killed Digg, more than the interface change.

Yes. I tested it, you can follow SubLemmies from Mastodon and even reply to threads and comments from there. I haven’t tested the opposite, but it should be possible.

What baffles me is, how can someone who leads a media company be so out of touch with reality and current events ?

Fellon Muskolini is defaulting on rent, created a literal toxic environment by cutting janitorial and cleaning services, stifled Google Cloud and AWS - two services he needs to keep the site working, destroyed the value of the company, made fun of a disabled Icelandic national hero, and this is just skimming the surface. Now /u/Spez come in public to say he admires all that incompetence ?

There’s being oblivious and then there’s… whatever alternate-world insanity that goes inside his peanut brain.

I was pretty fed up with Reddit and the many site issues and instabilities they were having in the last couple years, not to mention the level of discussions that had deteriorated significantly in the same time-frame. I had already stopped visiting, even deleted bookmarks to Reddit, all in favour of hanging out on Mastodon.

I’m glad I did, because Mastodon opened my eyes to the sheer beauty of the Fediverse. Heck, I’ve been mucking around the Internet since nineteen-ninety-seven, and this federated stuff really brings back a little bit of that magic network of yore, full of weirdness and exploration, with actual discourse. The only thing missing are the “under construction” GIFs.

Naah. This is (in his POV) excelent. He can just fire an e-mail at 3:00AM saying: “Everyone from Boulder will have to check in to the SF office by tomorrow. If you fail to do so, I’ll assume you abandoned work and is no longer employed at Twitter”.

What a POS…