No way would i use an iphone. I outgrew its capabilities in 2010, spent 3 years not updating until i could get an untethered jailbreak and finally gave it up in 2013. I have helped people with iphones and ipads since then and nothing has convinced me to go back.

I dont think so. As an example, take the !technology@beehaw.org community for example. It can have say 1000 subscribers from lemmy.ml but only needs to send content to lemmy.ml once as it comes in. All 1000 subscribers see the cache copy from lemmy.ml and a message is only sent back to beehaw.org for comments, votes, etc. With everyone having their own instance beehaw.org would have to send updates to each one instead of sending an update to one instance and 100 users seeing it. A good level to strive for is many small communities of say a few thousand (1-5 thousand or so). That way one single server doesnt get to massive but federation requests arent overwhelming instances either

Sadly no video platform will ever stand up to yt without creators. Odysee is the closest and thats only because youtube bans decenting opinion about topics

Makes me feel quite blue. I always heard the snowball and yeti were really good for the price

Yes, but it could have been handled better. If ai was the problem they could have gone the route of api only being allowed after an application process so they know who is using it and everyone else trying to use it would get denied until they were assigned a key

They all talk to each other.

From my mastodon account i can:

• follow sublemmys
• follow lemmy users
• comment on lemmy posts
• comment on lemmy comments
• share lemmy posts
• share lemmy comments

From my lemmy account i can:

• follow mastodon users
• comment on mastodon users posts
• comment on mastodon users comments
• crosspost mastodon users posts to sublemmys

While i have never used kbin i have no doubt that it can do everything listed above.

Really the fediverse is a "choose your own interface" kinda place. Do you understand reddit UI best? Use lemmy. Does twitter UI make sense to you? Use mastodon. Do you like both? Use both for different reasons. Either way you can interact with anyone, using anything, anywhere that uses activitypub and anyone, from anywhere, using anything supporting activitypub can interact with you. That is the whole point. Get rid of the silo social media so you never have to lose your social graph again because you moved to a new service they are not on

The more damage control they do the more damage they do too

Back in 2022 and 2023 i remember people finally getting fed up and abandoning corporate social media platforms in droves after realizing that 20 years of centralized platforms didnt work.

His op said he was working with redreader. I hope not as i would like to see redreader port to lemmy

Just what was expected. "Fuck you we are not backing down because we did nothing wrong. I dont understand why all the backlash"

Holy shit. I just loaded up the op from the apolo sub and read through it. Then i made the mistake of attempting to read the comments. Absolutely impossible. Its like opening a flood gate and letting the ocean poor in!

Oh really. Id say the chance of not existing in just a few short months is quite a hurdle to building something like a twitter. The fediverse has the right idea by nitting together many thousands of small communities into one cohesive whole such that the load on any one entity is never very large and off the shelf consumer hardware or vps services are capable of running it. This also distributes costs around making each entity pay a manageable amount