I run a mastodon instance with some friends, and a single user misskey instance for myself because I like it better than mastodon. It’s its own thing, it’s been around since 2014 and it’s very robust and stable. I love being able to format posts, easily customize the instance and write more than 500 characters.

I’m personally not a huge fan of firefish but it also works pretty well and has many of the same features as misskey.

Aw thank you!

No one. I’m the famous hacker 4chan.

Seems lemmy.ml censors slurs specifically then, since “bitch” is considered a gendered slur.

Easiest way to find out: shit fuck bitch asshole

Can you read those or are they censored?

I mean you can just have your feed show only the stuff you’re subscribed to…

Because fuck tech CEOs that’s why.

I’m gonna ignore the political stuff and actually answer your question: impersonation is a shit thing to do no matter who the target is, but there’s no centralized authority or terms of service in the fediverse. That’s kinda the whole point of it.

The above user is on mastodon, so they can verify their identity there by adding a line of code to their web site and then linking to their web site on masto. Instructions here: https://barrd.dev/article/add-a-verified-website-to-your-mastodon-account/

Once they’ve done that, they can pin a toot saying only to trust this account and no others.

If they don’t have a web site, welp. Never too late to make one.

The average person just doesn’t care. If the app works and they can see memes and connect with their friends they’re happy with it. They don’t care about data collection or the fediverse or any of that stuff. And I’m not saying this to imply that they’re stupid or anything like that. Just different priorities. All this stuff just literally doesn’t matter to them.

Frankly, I think they’re being laughably naive >.<

The creator of Mastodon went to some kind of Meta round table meeting (couldn’t find the original thread, here’s someone declining the offer), so it’s entirely possible that he was told a bunch of lies and believed them.

That said, Meta is going to pay the admins of whatever instances Threads decides to federate with, and they’ve said that’ll be the biggest instances, which… well, that’s mastodon.social, by far the biggest Mastodon instance. So, I don’t know. I don’t have any reason to believe that he’s a bad person, but what kind of money are we talking about here? No one is immune to that kind of temptation.

I dunno, this whole situation has a weird vibe.

They had 10 million signups within 7 hours of launch.

I just dropped this one on my husband. I made it seem like it was an actual headline I’d just seen on my phone. I think he’s looking for a divorce lawyer now.

I regret nothing.