confirming

thanks for catching the broken link, I was kind of aware of the autoshortening problem but didn’t double check to see if that link was good or not

keeping defederation from threads is probably good, the general consensus seems to be they are only creating threads for the mentioned “embrace extend extinguish” goal… coin flip for the alien.top federation.

in my view a separate instance that federates with threads and alien that people repost to manually might be the best idea, if people want to interact with them - this would still enable communication, without it “infecting” the “real fediverse”

frontends seem unnecessary imo (or I am indifferent on the choice I guess)

Glad to see it back up, I was wondering if something was wrong with my computer

Happy Thanksgiving (U.S.) belatedly to posters

only with text-only communities

if it wasn’t clear this is basically what I meant, no images at all, even from other instances; it would require a kind of change of software perhaps (I am suggesting a totally different “low tech” social medium setup). Text is much more sustainable than images or sound, which is more sustainable than video

a different comment but it seems like text-only federation scales easier (not very helpful to think of for this instance which is often based on meme sharing I’d guess)

The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe

sometimes freedom is preferred when there are incentives towards it