Once upon a time, it seemed like being an advocate for their constituents and a competent administrator of the country as a whole got politicians reelected. Maybe I have rose-tinted history glasses tho…

Some folks are born silver spoon in hand
Lord, don't they help themselves
But when the taxman come to the door
Lord, the house lookin' like a rummage sale, yeah

Something I realized on Mastodon years ago (well before the Twitter/X thing) is it quickly doesn’t matter so much to me how many active users a platform has. A platform is good enough if there’s some activity, and I like being there. Lemmy was already something I checked when I saw only a handful of new posts a day.

Anyway, that’s just my perspective. I’m not too concerned about downtrends of active users.

A few more:

• Linus Torvalds
• Mark Ruffalo
• Stephen Fry
• Mozilla

I did forget about that momentarily 🤦‍♂️. It was an injustice.

Yeah, and I think we can all agree that was a very bad thing.

For context: The UK and US did not ban German classical music during WW1 and WW2, and works by Beethoven, Mozart, Wagner, Brahms etc were performed and broadcast on radio.

Unsurprisingly the Nazis did censor a lot of music. Don’t be like the Nazis is the lesson, I guess.

Hmm, so far I think I still liked Reddit’s algorithm better. Somehow it always managed to combine top posts from huge communities (news, videos, etc) with small niche interest communities on the same timeline. Hot on Lemmy feels almost like a random selection of posts to me. What people post here is good, but the way it’s selected and sorted doesn’t feel quite as meaningful to me.

A crucial difference between XMPP and ActivityPub is, I think, this:

A messaging protocol or platform like Email or XMPP or Signal is only useful if the people you want to converse with are on it. There’s no other reason to use it. This means you probably need to have some of the people you know personally on it before you want to use it.

However the two main types of ActivityPub apps are microblogging and link sharing. I don’t necessarily need to know anyone on Fedi to enjoy using these platforms. So the likelihood for these platforms to thrive and survive, and the resilience against them being killed by a single large actor defederating or shutting down is much higher.