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It covers Apple/Google tax. They didn’t want to have lower revenue on mobile or go the Spotify route.

You can’t be both a small community and replace for profit social networks. I thought the point of all this was the second one.

Bluesky is working on a fix. They have a global identity system where you can move all your data (posts, likes, followers, blocks) to another instance if you get banned. The only thing that changes is your handle.

Feedbro is great. Not open source but you can export everything so it’s no big deal.

This gives me an idea. Make a federated torrent site. It would be practically impossible to take down and one instance going offline because they don’t have money wouldn’t destroy everything like in RARBG’s case.

Bluesky has a global identity system where instance accounts are just links to a DID (basically your private key). If you get banned from an instance you have to change your name but you keep all your posts and likes.