The statement about comment history is inconsiderate. People absolutely care about their content. I don’t have to know nor care for their reasons why but it is important to users.

Not really. You can utilise a Mastodon client that allows you to subscribe to remote instances. Another option is to utilise a relay and subscribe to an instance

Your knowledge is wrong. They opened up federation in February. There’s currently people from fedi that have Atproto PDS

My take is that they wanted to do things differently after extensive research. People here get their panties in a bunch but they talked about why, it’s as much culturally as it was technically. They wanted to mirror a more web like experience and some of the experiences mirrored on Big Social platforms. It makes sense to not tether user identities to instances, that’s not real freedom, especially when data portability is poor and there’s not true account migration on fedi. Fedi doesn’t really empower the individual and many people are oddly critical of Bluesky individualism, yet that’s how the dominant online experience is and more so mirrors real life. People come from Big Social platforms that are driven by their individual experiences so their transition to Bluesky is more natural than it would be on Mastodon. In neither place do you have people telling people how to use their own damn accounts! But, that happens on Mastodon Overall, they have some cool ideas and concepts, I’m happy to see any ideas and spaces that lessen the strong armed centralised grip of Big Social.

Mastodon and many others do not “properly” implement ActivityPub and have a ton of their own extensions and implementations

AP did not tie it to an instance. It left it up to clients and platforms. Mastodon tied identity to instances

OANN and Gab are one example of a back down. What about the child porn instances? They are still on the Fediverse, they’re just blocked by lots of instances. Using Gab provides a false sense of safety to people.

Yeah, I will have to go through my bookmarks

I’m totally with you. It’s honestly one of my best gripes with the culture of the Fedi. They hamstring admins. They don’t want capitalism. Admins are expected to beg for money when the vast majority of people using the service never donate. I believe as long as admins/devs are being reasonably transparent. To me it makes more sense to pay for services such as these as opposed to paying big companies. People should be rewarded for their hard work

Thank you!

Artemis is a Kbin app but it only works with the Artemis.camp instance until Kbin API is ready to go.

There is Sync for Lemmy