I just set up a paid account on Tuta today replacing my paid Proton account.

“Email is hard!”

I realize that Mastodon doesn’t track birthdays for security reasons, but it would be nice to have a “special day” that popped up in friends’ news feeds. It’s probably the nicest feature of FB, to get birthday wishes from friends.

They sign up on AOL or Yahoo Mail or Gmail. Or get an email address through their ISP.

“Here’s your address.” They use it.

“Wah wah it’s so hard to pick a server!”

JUST LIKE EMAIL YOU NITWIT!

An assertion like this requires proof!

Mastodon has third-party starter packs now. I wonder if it works for Pixelfed?

Storage costs keeps getting cheaper, but high quality video keeps taking up more space.

Yes, it relies on federation. I don’t think the data will even be sent to instances unless someone follows you on that instance.

Yes but can you run Doom on a dead badger

Yet, comments per day seems to be going up! And I helped!

It’s not. There are more appropriate communities to post this.

There are PeerTube servers that allow a certain reasonable amount of content for free.

Sad to hear this news.

They are in competition with Mastodon, and have a marketing budget.

Five years from now, those platforms will become enshittified as their budgets dry up. They will need to milk the users for revenue. Well see another surge in a few years, until they learn that Mastodon is actually better.

Bluesky seems to work better as an alternative.

Until they run out of VC money.

Then the enshittification happens, to pay the bills.

A marketing budget. The Fediverse has none, and we’re competing with the big boys.

I kinda like it. It’s sort of a self-curated magazine. It takes a while to get it tweaked for my personal preferences.

So, in my opinion, it’s a little like Lemmy, but focused more on the links than the conversation around them. Also, much more glossy and polished than Lemmy.

It’s worth checking out, and I’m quite happy that they seem to be gradually adding Fediverse support.

I’m out of the loop. What dumb thing did he do now?

Yes, but glue is the surprisingly tasty ingredient on pizza too keep your toppings from falling off.

Just be sure to use non-toxic glue, because the other kind tastes terrible.