If I had to guess, I’d say it’s some write-off move. A bit like Epic Games released all Paragon assets after they canceled the game.

Unfortunately capitalism completely exploited the remains of the DDR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treuhandanstalt

I don’t think the UK or the USA will intervene this time.

Last commit was two weeks ago.

Haha, I don’t think those are real users. But yeah, they could have done a better job selecting a pool of stock photos.

Not exactly federated, but open source: https://github.com/Alovoa/alovoa

Potential hot take: Do we even want the majority of people here?

I was a RIF user and therefore Jerboa comes naturally to me.

How do they want to recoup their investment?

Our Lord and Saver

How would you make money if you can’t control the platform? Investing in the fediverse is a terrible investment case.

Part of the Fediverse is instance owners being able to decide with whom they federate. I fail to see the issue.

What you call an algorithm here is a recommendation engine. I don’t see why they should avoid having something like that. Ideally they would have a modular system, so you could plug in your own favorite third-party engine.

In contrast to reddit, whos leadership never made any controversial decisions. /s

This comment for example, after about a week or two most of the visibility and interaction of it will drop to zero. At that point, this comment should expire and no longer exist.

That’s an incredible naive and egoistic take. Think about all the knowledge that is getting lost by applying this approach. How many times have you searched for some obscure thing and found the answer only on some five years old reddit post? That information would be lost for ever if you had your way.

That’s the wrong comment.

And to use it with a similar feature set, everyone is using different extensions which also have to be supported by the clients. I know there is this one server implementation (name escapes me at the moment) and Conversations on the client side, but it’s hardly the standard and we’re not really talking about plain XMPP then anymore.

Nobody is talking about Diaspora anymore ¯\_ (ツ) _/¯

Accountwalled then

https://spacebar.chat/