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They already offer a subscription service. And on top of that they have not-so-microtransactions in their shop.

The rarest human resource there is: good management.

Even though it's a corporate spokesperson, they wouldn't have requested anonymity if they were allowed to talk about it...

Are mastodon users stupid or just on a which hunt?

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After the point in time where you made the connection, you will see activity start coming in from their connections. So you should gradually see their followers populate as those people make new posts, which get federated to your instance through your connection to them.

Especially if the connection you made is the first time the remote instance has been interacted with, it's going to look barren at first because there is basically no capability to sync history. You can think of it like an RSS feed.

(This is oversimplified - it's possible that ActivityPub might allow for historical items to be synced just like RSS publishers can choose to include older data. I would speculate that it's not commonly done for bandwidth reasons if it is possible.)

A downside to this is that if you're trying to read through historical posts (from before you made the connection) you will have to click through to the hosting instance to get a complete view.

An upside to this is that because you only see content posted after the connection is established, you are guaranteed to be seeing new posts from active users.

Still waiting on Fish 1.1, it should have several new features but has been floundering in development hell...

Some nerd probably wanted to be able to say they literally decimated their management teams

Israel is probably the contractor that does the dirty work for the others.

Vampire Survivors is $5, and I got like 90 hours out of it without buying any DLC.

OP has a very niche identity.

"for now" doing some extremely heavy lifting there

Oh hey, I never thought I'd see somebody who's the target audience for those AI generated social media sites in the wild :P