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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After a year of operation, Switzerland's government closes its Mastodon instance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And I’m saying you’re better off without. That sentence is ridiculous enough already, it doesn’t need the source to make it worse. But good on you for worrying about credit, do as you will.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After a year of operation, Switzerland's government closes its Mastodon instance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  — vintermann, Hacker News

  I don’t know who this person is, but adding “Hacker News” doesn’t give their words more credibility. It gives them less, if anything.

  Imagine quoted someone and, underneath it, added:

  — PM_ME_UR_FEET, Reddit

  Both of these enjoy the same level of base, intrinsic trust to me: none.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ZUN considering moving his main account to Bluesky⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not hoping for a miracle, but it’d be nice if some Japanese users followed him, even if only as a secondary account.

  I believe Japan is the nation with the second most twitter users, so any chip at that foundation helps.

  That, and I’d like to see more touhou artists venture beyond twitter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After a year of operation, Switzerland's government closes its Mastodon instance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Just for the record, I know little about gotosocial, but I’ve looked into Misskey a fair bit and I think it’s irrelevant here.

  FediDB data on active users seems off (a low ~12k MAU), but even if the real number is much greater, most are on the flagship instance (misskey.io) which has multiple CSAM censures on fediseer.

  Put another way, it’s almost counterproductive to include Misskey in these topics because simply federating with its biggest instance could be a liability for most 1st world western instances.

  I doubt the Swiss government would get much out of Misskey.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is going to shut down their Mastodon instance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I’m trying to reduce the influence of a problematic individual. The lawsuit has, and will have, more coverage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is shutting down their Mastodon instance.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t want to rain on your parade, but:

  • Firefox has hundreds of millions of users.
  • Lemmy has less than half a million total users, and YTD MAU peaked at 52k.

  Even putting aside technical details, I fail to see how “Lemmy integration in the browser” could be a good product strategy. A plugin/extension can also be developed by independent developers, which seems much more fitting for the size of the target demographic. Maybe I’m missing something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is going to shut down their Mastodon instance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry, banana, that was sarcasm. I saw nothing I’d call a quality.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is going to shut down their Mastodon instance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would suggest not trusting anything Lunduke says, the man went off the deep end and became a harmful conspiracy theorist.

  For example, he believes there is a trans advocacy group going around and destroying open source projects from within. That’s right, only the Lunduke Journal has the truth, and the truth is that trans kids are killing open source.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is shutting down their Mastodon instance.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorta. Only as a discussion starter, if you wanted. I was unsure how to frame my thoughts without being rude, but it seems I ended up being confusing instead. I’ll edit my comment to try again, please try to read it in its intended spirit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is going to shut down their Mastodon instance⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The replies are a prime example of the fediverse microblogging sphere’s greatest qualities.

  This entire event is unfortunate, but unsurprising.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is shutting down their Mastodon instance.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  As is a vast segment of their market?