You seem to know this person so maybe you won’t be surprised by their posting history, but for anyone else, I recommend checking it out to get an idea of what to expect from that instance and some context to these discussions.

The fact that you even hesitate to defederate from them is reason enough for me to abandon this ship before it turns into an intellectual dark web hub.

https://slrpnk.net may be a reasonable alternative for some of us who are closer to the intersection of nature, science, sustainability, and decentralisation of power and wealth.

This is cool! Typing with it right now. Have been hoping to see an innovation like this for a long time. (Maybe some proprietary products have come and gone but non-free software doesn’t exist to me unless I really can’t afford to abstain)

It hasn’t been updated in like a year and there is no spell correction. Am I missing something or is this just an acceptable tradeoff for you?

It’s “different from”.

“Similar to”; “different from”; “less/greater than”. “Different than” doesn’t make sense.

Different app

I didn’t watch this video but I suspect the sentiment is similar to Sabine’s (I highly recommend her channel)

The idea is that you browse your feed of subscriptions, not that you literally go to an instance and browse their local feed.

I don’t know if I solved it by disabling and re-enabling the repo but that’s one of the things I tried and later I could see it.

I never used Discord but used google hangouts before switching to Telegram and Matrix (the former for family and the latter for everything else).

It isn’t different and you are rightfully confused about the way they phrased that.

We don’t know if axions are a real thing. This is still highly speculative.

I don’t think of the threadiverse as a link aggregation platform but as a network of communities engaging in threaded discussion. The federated model is an answer to the problem of platform lock-in, the network effect, and the lack of autonomy communities have on proprietary/commercial/centralised platforms.

Each instance separately may fill the role of link aggregator but mainly for that community (instance), with that community’s values and moderation policies. The ability for an instance to federate with other instances with compatible policies is the benefit here.

It may actually help if you view an instance as the community, with its “communities” as its topics.

the free side, that talks with everyone

the side that talks at everyone and gets mad when people exercise their freedom from listening to everyone