there is nothing socialist about the CCP. “Communism with Chinese Characteristics” is just capitalism.

what was stopping them from doing this previously? Isn’t this just government virtue signaling?

society sucks

I don’t have that much content here anyway, I’ll just need to rejoin the like 40 magazines, just need to decide which of the 5 different kbin instancanes I joined today I’d rather be on.

certainly not just a Mastodon thing, as Friendica , and I’m pretty sure GNU Social, had it before Mastodon did.

Thanks for the info though

then again, if your phone has “safari browser” you probably are unable to be reasoned with anyway.

Thers’s plenty of other good reasons not to use non-free closed source “SaaS” like reddit.

on a related note, hosting images on your server for users on other servers, eats up a lot of resources too. I know some instances have stopped allowing saving of images.

use a web browser…even on your phone…

You’ll see the most on the original community’s instance, but even that won’t show everything due to how activity Pub works and some platforms allowing “anonymous follow” and the like. #privacy

WTF said anything about wanting gun control?

how can one enjoy working close source? You are welcome to keep your devlopment private, rather than putting it on an open source development protal like GitHub, and just release it under the GPL so the rest of us can learn from your work, without you having to put up with annoying “developers” on the internet.

Do you have a public git for this?