If I understand correctly, there’s some server usage implicated in the delivering of notifications, so it makes sense that it costs.

That and the fact that it’s a for-profit company expecting to be paid for their product.

If I remember correctly, only a third of the whole payment was financed with Tesla shares as collateral.

I do believe he’s a moron screwing Twitter up by ~~accident~~ incompetence.

~Bixby~ Siri button yay!

I’ve seen people on Mastodon referring to the company as The Company Previously Known as Twitter.

I would say Mlem is also inspired by Apollo, so I would recommended it as well; I keep jumping back and forth between Memmy, Mlem and wefwef.

Tried Thunder and Liftoff!, but they feel very Material Design-y to me, so using them on iOS feels off. Which is a shame because both are pretty fast.

Lemmios is also promising, but it’s still on early development so it’s a bit rough around the edges.

A lot of people use social media to follow celebrities, brands, politicians, etc., and Mastodon doesn’t have that (yet at least).

I prefer Mastodon, my feed consists of the people I decided to follow, instead of an algorithmic one. But one have to accept that Mastodon lacks the kind of users that most people want to follow.

Hopefully, if Meta ends up delivering on their promise to add support for the Fediverse, I will be able to follow the kind of people that otherwise would’ve never joined Mastodon (ie brands that would offer support for their products), from my Mastodon client of choice.

I know a lot of people disagree with Meta joining the Fediverse, but I prefer to be optimistic about it. Also, Mastodon supports blocking domains at a user level, so if you really don’t want to interact with @threads.net users, you can do it yourself.

Worst case scenario, we get back to the current status quo, so there’s nothing to lose.

I use Ivory for browsing Mastodon, and I’d bet that the app is more polished than any other first-party social media app.

The problem with Mastodon (and Lemmy to some extent) is that the onboarding process is not as straightforward, thus causing some friction for the less tech-savvy users.

A couple weeks back I was at a French food cafeteria, and I was in the mood for a “French toast”, but I couldn’t find it in the menu for the life of me.

I had to google “French toast name in France”, and that’s how I was able to know the name to order it haha

It’s “Pain perdu” for those wondering.

Loved that the community kept the name.

Elon’s mom didn’t give him permission, so I’m afraid it’s most likely not gonna happen.

Having the Instagram branding would bring more celebrities and such, which will undoubtedly attract more people to the fediverse.

Once they’re in and are more familiar with the whole thing, moving them to Mastodon shouldn’t be that hard.