I’m not sure we are having the same conversation. You are talking about how Mastodon was not a good fit for you personally, maybe because of a bad server.

I’m saying that lots of people use it for all sorts of great things, and it’s an excellent option for a public health agency.

What are you talking about? It has a million active users. With an advertising budget of zero.

Too Bad it wasn’t Mastodon. They just chose a different corporate master

Sounds like good news to me

Musk dismissed the controversy, urging people not to overanalyze his actions.

Which one is it? Should people dismiss it or stop overanalyzing? Because the only way to dismiss it is to overanalyze.

Without overanalyzing, it was just plainly a Nazi salute.

According to the author about page: Timothy W. Ryback is a historian and director of the Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation in The Hague. He is the author of several books on Hitler’s Germany

Out celebrating that they didn’t vote for Genocide™

No that’s just hip marketing. There is one instance (and technically a way to host personal data that nonetheless requires creating an account through the main service). The code is open though.

If anyone is interested in decentralized micro-blogging, there is Mastodon, and if you are interested in short form video there is Loops.

Loops is not yet decentralized, but it is based on ActivityPub and planned for open-sourcing and federation after Beta testing. The creator is an established developer in the community, so the claim seems credible.

This government has failed repeatedly to maintain the most basic safety and order. Really a shame to see a country that was on the right track now falling apart.

I’m not a programmer, but I don’t think I’d pay for code that was 95% accurate. That sounds buggy af

Outlook honestly was not that bad for a while, but of course Microsoft does what Microsoft does. I’ve been using Thunderbird for about a year now and it is very full featured coming directly from outlook.