I suspect it would look similar in #Switzerland as we at least also know these regular “massive” discounts on various types of products across grocery chains
"Mike Macgirvin, former dev lead on Friendica and Hubzilla, is taking a proactive stance on the new changes [to the Privacy Policy of Meta's new fediverse-facing DataFarm] with an update to his new project, Streams.
...The new enhancement examines remote fetch requests against a list of who should be allowed to access a resource. It may prove to be a viable protection against excessive data harvesting."
I have re-read the magnificent article by @kissane, titled "Mastodon is easy and fun except when it isn’t". On Bluesky, she asked those people who had tried/used Mastodon and bounced off, what had led them to slow down or leave.
Couldn’t find people or interests, people didn’t stay
Too confusing, too much work, too intimidating
Too serious, too boring, anti-fun
Complicated high-stakes decisions
"I don’t know if Mastodon can grapple with the complexities of mass scale. Lots of people would prefer it didn’t—staying smaller and lower-profile makes it friendly to amateur experimentation and also a lot safer for people who need to evade various kinds of persecution. But if Mastodon and other fedi projects do take on the mass scale, their developers must consider the needs of people who aren’t already converts. That starts by asking a lot of questions and then listening closely and receptively to the answers you receive."
For many parts I agree. But despite everything, Mastodon/Fediverse is still the best place to be on social media. Let's make this even better. We have the power. #Mastodon#OpenSource#Fediverse#Bluesky#BlueskySocial
@PavelVoronezh
> you can also move your data over with you
Although posts are identified by URLs, so they're tied to the domain name of the server where they're first posted. So I don't think moving them to a new server will preserve links to them, including within threads (not #Chains). That's one of the big technical challenges with making accounts fully portable in ActivityPub.
Some folks from social.coop are doing an amazing job of mapping out the arguments for and against federating with Meta's Chains(1) server, if and when it starts federating over AP:
(1) I refuse to call it "Threads", as I see this as an attempt to trademark and thus privatise a generic term commonly used in the verse, and the web in general.