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Exactly. Why would facebook even care about the existing, tiny, fediverse? They are probably doing this because the infrastructure maybe makes sense somehow for geographic reasons to save on server costs.

I still don’t see how things will exactly go bad for the existing instances by communicating with Meta instances.
The arguments in this article are “They won’t moderate” and “Meta is evil”. One is speculative, and one is biased… not convincing arguments to a neutral judge.

The drawback I see is that Meta communities will just be bigger and suck people out of the “nice” fediverse. But not federating with Meta won’t change anything about it. If anything it causes harm because existing communities can’t profit from the new Meta users joining.

PHP with a good Framework, heck yeah. Old-School PHP, oh god no!

One trivial way would be to just transfer your subscriptions, onto a new account.

It can’t easily be removed since it needs to send out that information into the federated network. At best the function to quickly see that can be removed from the GUI.

To throw some extra spice in this: What happens if the player decides to chose randomly?

I see potential in a site that offers an alternative algorithm, or curated list of channels, but still links to youtube for the streaming itself. The content that Youtube shows me has gotten quite bad lately… and the search doesn’t even work properly.

Was ist not good? I was considering it for home use, since I very rarely print anything and the 1€ a month would maybe be worth it for a headache-free printing experience.