Maybe on your instance - it’s your loss. But admins have a choice - defed from them and lose access to all those users and having actual content worth looking at, or federate with them and actually grow your network into something that has enough going on to make people interested. As it is, I use Threads right now. I strongly prefer it to Mastodon. Kbin comes close, but has less content to idly scroll through. If no Fediverse site I use supports Threads, I’ll keep on using it.

That’s fine and all, but I have one question. Why would you want to want to revisit the biggest video game scam in recent memory?

I’m not at my computer, so please excuse any mobile issues. I’m in favor of the move, because it will help to simultaneously connect and decentralize communications across the platforms. Say what you will about Facebook (you’re probably right), but if they’re that bad, then it seems logical to me to connect to their federated service even more aggressively.

The more we push our content (and by extension the Fediverse content that kbin aggregates), the less impact their algorithm can have. The more we go out of the way to expose their content, the harder we make it them to curate/censor/suppress any voices. And if, when comparing two Fediverse instances or softwares, we find that what’s been pushed to them is different, we the users can call it out to news organizations (or make it public ourselves).

And yes, I know I’m making the arguments for supporting private companies in adopting open-source. It’s about being able to audit what companies we don’t trust are doing.

In addition to that, I’m currently a Threads user. Anecdotally, there’s a lot of wholesome content on there that I appreciate, and what limited advertising is there is nowhere near as obtrusive as Reddit or the main Facebook platform.

Pitchfork being on an alternative social platform just feels right to me. So I say, go for it.

Well, if he doesn’t care, then I just might bother the time and effort to pirate it. But then again, a dismissive creator who’s working with Markiplier isn’t someone I’m really keen on supporting in the first place. I wish him luck, and that he is approximately as successful as I am in financial terms.

I think it’s time to shut it down, hard. That’s the start of something that will not end well for human beings.

Flipboard was neat originally, but never really held my attention.

When the shoe fits, start wearing it. PRC is an authoritarian state led by a dictator and his cronies.