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Nope. You’re the USER. A concept that is as old as computing and yet has gone completely by the wayside recently with the corporate monopolization of the internet.
Good to see it making a comeback.
Does any of that make you think it’s SUPPOSED to be new user friendly?
They don’t have to be. They also don’t have to be federated.
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During the pandemic VC slowed to a crawl and the stock market went to shit. While the market eventually rebounded VC is doing so MUCH more slowly. VC scum doesn’t care about innovation, it cares about making money. If there’s some level of risk it shrinks like balls in a January pool and it takes forever to coax the little guys out.
I was mistaken. My understanding was that this was an ActivityPub standard. Apparently it’s specific to certain things that use the protocol, such as Mastodon, but not inherent
You’re completely right. It’s possible on Mastodon and I apparently got bad information that it was an ActivityPub standard rather than specific to Mastodon.
Well that shitballses some stuff up.
Nobody can “get ahold” of an instance in any meaningful way. Accounts can be migrated to other instances. Instances that act poorly get defederated.
If Meta buys lemmy.world you know what happens? Everyone migrates to other instances, lemmy.world gets defederated, and Meta now has a completely useless instance name and not much more.
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