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Huh. Seems pretty expansive - @dansup@mastodon.social, any comment?

Get them on Signal, I’d say. :)

She’s not interested in using any social media at all, she just wants a place to toot about her publications because it’s part of the job. So some Mastodon instance specific to her field is pretty much as good as it gets for her usecase. As an academic the domain-specific Mastodon instances are pretty great.

I like Mbin a lot though! :)

As an academic, there are several users on Bluesky I would like to follow. Sadly very few are bridged for now. Hopefully all Bluesky accounts will be open for bridging at some point.

Another advantage is that thanks to Bridgy I can convince my partner to join Mastodon instead of Bluesky to promote her work, as the reach is the same on either platform.

I don’t think independent forums exist in the eyes of many legislators. The internet equals big tech.

If they accidentally kill off the independent web they won’t even notice. They’re probably still on X, thinking it’s still hip and unaware alternatives even exist. Never mind trying to explain them about independent forums.

Of all the nerdy things I’m excited about, the prospekt of making bug reports to FOSS git projects through my Mbin or Mastodon accounts is certainly on the list. I have so many accounts I made just for a single bug report. This will be great if/when it takes off.

This comment was brought to my attention as it was reported for being too dumb to exist.

As I’m not a moderator of this community, I’ll leave that judgment to others.

However, I will point out that the Online Safety Act was passed in 2023, towards the end of well over a decade of British politics being dominated by the Tories. Labour only won the election in 2024.

So, despite popular belief, the liberals are not the ones taking your rights away. Unless you consider Cameron, May, Johnson, Truss, and Sunak to be liberals, of course. Which you might, as nobody using the word “liberal” seems to have even the faintest idea what it means any more.

The Online Safety Act is not about regulating TikTok, it’s about surveillance underneath a thin veil of protecting children. And it is very much a Tory piece of work.

Social media needs testing like any other software. If you join Loops now, you’re basically a beta tester.

Testing social media without users makes little sense.

There’s also an argument to be made that when it is finally released properly, it’s good to have some content there already.

I am a little concerned about the future of Loops and Pixelfed though. Developing things can be fun, maintaining them is a different story.

Looking forward to the F-droid release - it’s a bit ironic that that’s the only platform where it is currently not available, considering how it seems to be the reasonable place to get the app.

I don’t judge them too hard. Much like Twitter users I think they are blndly using a product that has gotten gradually worse. Much like Twitter users I think they need to realise at some point. But I understand that it’s difficult, and much like Twitter’s social graph, Apple’s network of services keep people captive.

And yes, there are huge problems in the Android camp as well. I sympathize with users who think all alternatives are bad, but I think we need to realize some are worse than others.

Also worth noting I don’t think anyone should buy a new phone over this. Whoever has an iPhone should keep using it until they can’t. But if they care, they should get something else after.

I think using Apple products involves paying money to a company who actively hurts you and limits your rights. That you cannot install software developed by an orbganization that accepts donations is pretty insane.

I’m not much of an absolutist. One can only do so much. But Apple is putting unreasonable constraints on consumers, and it should not be tolerated.

You can still install things on your Windows PC. Apple’s control over their ecosystem is to a degree where you have no meaningful ownership over your hardware any more.

I think people don’t need to be hypocritical, it’s enough to be ignorant. But if you care enough not to be ignorant and you still tolerate it, you might have a problem walking the walk rather than just talking the talk.

a small « support us » donation link in our website footer or even on one of the allowed platforms triggered a « nope » from Apple.

Christ. Caring about your rights and using Apple products is not compatible.

Thanks - it’s interesting to hear what brings people to different platforms.

It sounds like there’s a lot of potential in Hubzilla for front-end developers seeking to make it a friendlier experience - from what everyone here is saying the back-end seems pretty solid.

I interpreted TheLugal as considering the old Facebook vibes as a bad thing - but each to their own!

As you’re using Friendica - Is the old school Facebook aesthetic part of what makes Friendica appeal to you? Did you move there directly from Facebook back in the day?

And if you have been around for a while, what has the recent growth of ActivityPub felt like from your corner of the Internet?

Friendica has been around since 2010 - it is very cool to me that the content we post here might reach users of a platform that was created almost a decade before ActivityPub was specified.

Case in point.

non-sectarian “left-unity”

Lol. I’m a social democrat. They’d send me to a camp if they had the chance to.

Then again, when put in charge of things they sent each other to camps as well, so maybe this is what tankie unity looks like.

I don’t mind proprietary software - it seems it’s what a lot of people want, and I simply won’t use it.

Promoting proprietary software named “OpenSomething” should, however, be banned as false marketing.