rglullis

They don't have pricing listed for GoToSocial, but judging by their Mastodon packages their entry options are very limited in capability. 2GB for the database and 10GB for media storage will fill up very quickly if you follow more than a few dozen accounts.

No, I don't think he is sleazy or have ill-intentions. I think he genuinely wants to do good things.

The problem it's just that he lacks focus and he worries more about feeling validated than dealing with the daily grind of continuously improving his product. As soon as any of his projects start getting a minimal amount of interest and people start depending on what he has promised, he finds himself some "new" project to be busy with. At the same time, he still feels possessive about his creations, so it's hard for him to just delegate away any significant part of the system.

I hope that the successful kickstarter makes him realize that shit got real and that he already got the validation that he was seeking, and that the money is enough to get him surrounded by good people who are a bit more focused on "proper" project management.

down votes use “Dislike” which is not used in the ActivityPub language

Dislike is an Activity type defined by ActivityStreams, which is the basis of the ActivityPub vocabulary.

There was a reason given, but it smells of bovine excrement: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/114041543384358354.

When probed a bit more about it, the silence was deafening.

It is is connected well enough as it is, and I also don't think that lemmy-federate is a good idea. It forces duplication of content on all instances, even if no one is actually interested.

I was referring to [email protected] ...

Well established only relatively to the others.

This is the crucial part you seem unwilling to accept. You don't want to go to LW because of centralization, but you still have to resort to number 2 just to be able to maybe get enough support from the others

Meanwhile, this dinky little instance keeps slowly but steadily growing and outliving everyone else.

Oh, another poorly funded instance shut down when it got a minimal amount of usage? Why am I not surprised?

Ah, so it is not a new one but a consolidation of them all.

And you all still want to ignore topic-specific instance...

Another one?! This is like the 10th TV community already...

It's the third or forth spammer from diggita.com this week. @[email protected] are you aware that your instance is being used by spammers? Can you please tighten up your registration policies?

Let's flip this a little bit: if someone offered you a bet that OP is a bot vs not a bot, how much would the odds have to be in order for you to take it?