For what it’s worth, the rest of the report is mostly fine, and I’m inclined to believe I learned something about Drew. But I also felt that was not honest, and question if it had to be included at all. Looking around, it seems the author likes Stallman, and regardless of how they felt before, they probably disliked Drew when they found he was connected to the Stallman report.

So thanks for mentioning that weird vibe. I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who paused at that section.

Ironically, the writing felt weaker than Drew’s, which led to unexpected feelings while reading. For example:

r/preteen_girls (why this was even allowed to exist is beyond our comprehension)

Emphasis mine. My immediate reaction was this shouldn’t be beyond comprehension to anyone who looks into Reddit’s history and culture. Silly, not even a nitpick proper—though I have one—but it got a snort from me.

Anyway, assuming provided information is correct, seems he:

1. Likes sexual anime-like depictions of minors
2. Is sloppy at compartmentalizing his internet activity (or didn’t care to; why?)

I, uh, also wonder if one can get in trouble for hosting screenshots of certain content for a report. Guess it also depends on where they’re hosting from. I hope they’re fine, because from this report and the rest of their blog, they seem to enjoy internet conflicts.

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.

— 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 I 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.

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.

I looked around, but was unable to find more about this. Until something new comes up, I’m assuming it’s just a rumor.

Are you talking about Dorsey? Because if so, he left Bluesky as he didn’t like their focus on moderation.

Not that it matters much, I sincerely doubt most users look up such details before joining anything. It’s all about the experience.

Yet, Bluesky didn’t even support video posts until two weeks ago. Many other highly requested features are still missing. To what extent does the success of each platform come down to money? What did Bluesky do with a larger budget to get an edge?

That’s inaccurate and reductive. ATproto and ActivityPub do not federate the same way, and how they work greatly affects how users interact with the entire ecosystem.

On Mastodon, pick the wrong instance and there’s content you’ll never see, migration isn’t complete, discovery is so bad they started a new initiative to try fixing it, instances have their own cultures, and so on.

Bluesky has issues, some I’d consider critical, but they’re not directly user-facing for the most part. Make an account, you get the same experience as everyone else.

edit: Sorry, I have this issue where I try to be concise, yet feel like I end up being rude. I get your confusion, but they’re quite different. Hopefully this helped; I can elaborate if you want.

I think one of the biggest reasons is that the Fediverse is often a pain to get into and sometimes a pain to use.

Bluesky and Threads “just work.”

Some people say it’s marketing and in Threads’ case I can believe it, but I haven’t seen any example of large marketing campaign by Bluesky.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

This entire event is unfortunate, but unsurprising.

Yes, I think that’s natural. A large segment of their market is still there. Throwing away years of work when the accounts cost relatively little to maintain would be wasteful. I don’t see how their presence there is relevant to this discussion.

In theory, I doubt development would continue. For a federated cohost to survive long term, it would also need to be open source, with a developer community that could fork the project and carry the torch. That’s a very different cohost we’re envisioning, even excluding required UX changes to make it possible.

At that point, one might as well imagine a cohost that explored better ways to make money, or attracted more users, or ran a tighter ship. Both scenarios lead to this discussion never happening.

No, thanks for suggesting. I saw a thread by other curious users and checked fediseer. Might be an admin issue, but I didn’t see clear evidence.

Don’t think it was spam as, unless I’m misunderstanding, that seems unlikely from fosstodon.

Pseudo?