If I’m referring people to a book I always use a link to its OpenLibrary entry. If I’m discussing a book, I do it on the Bookwyrm instance I’m on.

In short - use both :)

Another vote for Mullvad. You can pay by cash, vouchers (in some countries) or Monero for total privacy.

Are you trying to compare OP with Galileo?

Are you being human trafficked?

You really need to re-read that book, but without the preconceived rightwing slant.

Forum packages have been around for at least 20 years. I’m terms of forum like features the only difference is federation.

Well, the issue is that although both an instance that uses Mastodon and an instance that uses Lemmy communicate using ActivityPub, the way the might choose to display the passed info is different. Lemmy for example can have longer posts than Mastodon (a micro blogging service) can handle.

There does need to be a way to handle that but I don’t think its really in place yet. Let’s not forget the fediverse is a very young thing, not all the issues are resolved yet.

Is u/spez a dick? Yes.

Did he used to mod r/jailbait? Not really. This happened back when any mod could auto add any other user as a mod without them having to self-approve. IIRC he removed himself not long after a screenie was taken and became aware it had happened.

Let’s not dilute his actual assholery with fake assholery.

The Meta Plan:

1. We’re going to use ActivityPub because we love the Fediverse!!!
2. Now we’re live, here’s some improvements to AP, now they’re not standard but we’re working closely with the AP guys. It would help if you all pleaded with them to accept these changes- they’re just to make things better!
3. Yay! All the changes were implemented and we’ve formed the AP Council, we might invite some of the old AP guys to it.

Its convenience. 99% don’t care about anything apart from getting what they need. The blackout caused them inconvenience so its therefore annoying. Its the same attitude that can appear when workers take strike action.