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Can't shreddit do this in bulk? I am considering doing it for my comments, but I think I will just leave them up there. I did have a great time on reddit until they announced their API changes, so I will leave them with that much. But I did get a backup of everything I wrote using bulk downloader.

But I am still considering just doing a shreddit just for kicks.

Honestly, I think the sad truth is that reddit is bleeding money, and every action they take from here on out will be about recruiting whales and driving off everyone else. That's steve's brilliant business strategy - make reddit p2w.

My main understanding is that lemmy.ml was the original instance hosted by the devs, and they want to focus their time on developing the platform rather than moderating new users. They also have some stricter mod rules over there.

But the whole intention was to get others to start hosting instances, so everything is going as planned.

Lol, no, it's too leftist for a lot of people.

Aren't they also the developers of Lemmy itself? I would guess that is what Lemmy is kind of a play on; Lennin-Marxist. Pretty funny...

I'm honestly not opposed to Facebook developing software that uses activity pub. It's an open standard after all. I get why you would want to de-federate it out of privacy concerns. I'm hoping that they make it open source, or that it introduces better federation navigation features that can get redeveloped in another client.

I'm not sure I would want to sign a pact that is anti this app, since I would think that encouraging ActivityPub adoption is a good thing. But de-federate from it for sure if it spies on users. I doubt facebook really cares about de-federation anyway, and will try to make their own ecosystem based around activity pub. I honestly doubt that they will federate to private instances anyway.

One pitfall: even if you de-federate, a market will probably emerge for content from federated servers and facebook might just start buying content from people who didn't make it, but are getting it by setting up instances that act as a middle man between facebook and other server. That is the only real risk I can think of, since it could have the potential to discourage widespread good faith federation.

I love porkbun, but I am currently having an issue with their 2FA implementation. Their customer service is very responsive however.

I'm not even going to read this. The differences between these ideologies have litigated and re-litigated continuously for the past century. Whether you agree with them or not, you have to recognize at some point that some people have a slightly different perspective and you don't have to word vomit every time that comes up.

While it is okay to not be a fan of being someone's unpaid tester, you have to recognize that the developers of Lemmy are giving it away for free under the GPL, and letting people run in on their own hardware. This is extremely generous, and there is no incentive to actually use the software beyond the demand and goodwill that people have for a place to talk on the internet that isn't actively hostile towards them.

Mastodon still seems to be getting better and growing every day. I think there is definitely some work that is going to have to be done to set up sustainable development of Lemmy.

It seems kind of inevitable that there will be a bit of a period of instability before things settle a bit, and it that time maintaining accounts on multiple instances is inevitable. I am running into a few reasonable issues with federation in lemmy that I am sure will be ironed out eventually.

But yeah, it is kind of a bummer to set yourself up on one instance, and then watch it get defederated from a another major instance, even if it is for ultimately justified reasons.

Aren't they backing off a bit, getting rid of universal 3rd party ad tracking cookies?

But whatever, Mozilla is definitely more sustainable in the long run, and the degradation of web kit will drive away users in the long run, even casual ones. I switched to Firefox, and I am recommending others do the same.