I'll admit I was a minor fan of him. He seemed to have his ego pointed in a good direction. It was around the time those kids got stuck in a cave that I realised something was off.
I was never a hyper fan, but I'll admit I was completely taken in by his PR machine, for a time.
https://the-federation.info/platform/73
The numbers do speak for themselves.
While it's not huge, compared to reddits numbers, it's a massive boost to lemmy. A lot of those leaving are more likely more active users. It's bootstrapped Lemmy into a viable platform. It now has a critical mass of users to generate content.
It doesn't exist in an inertial frame of reference. In a non-inertial frame it's a perfectly valid force
It's not a hideous summary. The video is, itself, very much a blitz summary of current events.
The raspberry pi thing is a smart arse comment on twitter cheaping out on their hosting. It's hard to find enough raspberry pis to replace the Google cloud service.
There should be next to no difference in content. In theory, de-federation could lead to a difference. E.g. if lemmy.world de-federated with someone, feddit.uk would still be able to see and interact with it.
In practice however, basically the same.
https://youtu.be/anwy2MPT5RE
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