alex

The general consensus is that this was going to be a monetary offer to allow Instagram to further colonize the Fediverse by purchasing one of the larger servers.

No, that's completely wrong. You're scaremongering. There was no such offer.

There is no confirmation of any financial contracts, or moderation arrangements and Eugen Rochko/Gargron has stated he doesn't know anything about any secret deals.[1]

From @supernovae@universeodon.com:

The nda wasn’t because of some absurd agreement but just the fact they’re launching a new project and we’re getting access to engineers and product team to discuss what the relationship could be. And they went well.[2]

There was a call to talk about engineering, moderation, safety, support for user privacy controls and how federation would look like. (and more)

There was no deal signing or any bullshit like that - that’s all fake news.

The nda is because none of this stuff is released and it’s up to meta to share details or admins to join the ongoing calls to learn in advance of launch what is going on.[3]

We don’t know, what we don’t know. So i initiated contact and meta obliged. Because the product isn’t released yet, there is an NDA.[4]

That's it, alpaca my bags.

To bypass the paywall and read the article: https://archive.ph/qfn4r

To read the article without the paywall: https://web.archive.org/web/20230622225518/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-teksavvy-for-sale-internet-provider/

referencing users on Lemmy is not at all the same as reddit, since there are multiple instances.

there's no automagic function for tagging (at least not on the web there isn't - that's probably why you couldn't find one), you just have to do it by hand.

ie. [@foreverwinter@lemmy.world](http://lemmy.world/u/foreverwinter) becomes: @foreverwinter@lemmy.world

Yes, I would call it a bug. If it's the first time your instance 'sees' that community, only new posts will be federated.

It does not know about older posts, not even older pinned posts that may be important.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2640 - fix appears to be in progress

You can always follow both - for example, I am posting this from my lemmy account. :)