Right? Both the Israeli and Qatari governments suck ass

there's always that one bootlicker

Who told you western teenagers were too dumb to understand this fact and would fail to include the remedies to their ideology when they rile up against capitalism?

That ship has sailed, both ways I'm afraid.

Not only reddit made it exceedingly clear that they aren't backtracking, 3rd party developers equally clearly stated they are out.

I don't see this situation reversing.

Read this. You'll understand the issue a little better.

The problem here isn't talking to Meta or Meta making a federated platform.

Nobody can prevent Meta from doing that anyway.

The problem is the need to push against the insistence of Meta to keep these meetings off the record. It's against the entire philosophy of something like not only fediverse but FOSS in general.

If Meta wants good faith, they have to show it first.

Notice that in the email, Kev gives his guidance as to the matter. Do whatever the fuck you want as long as you put people first and make a product for the purpose of serving them.

This should be the attitude everyone should have first.

We will accept you as long as you're bringing value to us, not the other way round, got that Meta?

As long as any dev is taking this approach, Meta included, I'm supporting them. If someone is secretive about their intentions about a public service which is not a for profit endeavor inherently, I'll have a hard pass too.

The answer can be many things if you go into detail but the summary is change is hard.

Great news!

I'm really happy there are some pro lgbtq news between all the attacks the community suffers constantly.

We should start by designing better and more informative UX, and ditch the email analogies altogether.

Nobody imagines the correct thing when we harp on about how decentralized and amazing everything is, analogous to email but also reddit and twitter combined but also different but it doesn't matter because it's all the same in the end.

Yes but that's only relevant if you're aware of a specific community on a specific instance and expect to be interacting with it on purpose.

It's completely irrelevant if someone just gives you the name of an instance, tells you to make an account on it and start using. You'll be perfectly fine reading and commenting whatever's in your feed.

The only way this breaks is if you're in an instance that is too small to have local traffic while having technical difficulties with federation. If the instance is active enough or it's federating normally, someone completely unaware of the concept of federation will be perfectly fine as long as they understand the interface.

I think (and hope) so too. Some pro leniency stances from mastodon bigwigs got me a little worried, that's all.

They will drown us out even if they don't want in that case. Them just using the service normally will flood all our feeds with posts from their service based on the sheer number of them.