Na, there really have been issues lately where the sheer mass of data accumulated is adding up to some pretty massive bills for the data giants like Google. I think they just realised that a lot of dead accounts are giving them no value whatsoever, and so many of them have piled up that deleting them probably saves them a nice pile of money in infrastructure costs.

Same, but tbh if you haven’t touched one of your accounts in >2 years then you’re probably fine to just make a new account next time you need it.

IIRC when I first heard about this, it was clarified by Google that any accounts with YouTube videos on them will not be deleted. Can’t risk deleting abandoned channels that are still bringing in views.

Not yet. Threads has announced fediverse Integration as “coming soon.” When it does, you’ll need to find an instance that federates with threads. Most of the fediverse seems to be losing their fucking minds over the thought of it right now, so you’ll probably end up having to search for a while for a federated instance.

This is my take. I honestly don’t see how Google didn’t just extend XMPP well past when it would have naturally died, and they only pulled the plug when it was clear nothing was going to come of it. I acknowledge that this is an unpopular opinion here, but I feel like that’s just because this community is very biased when it comes to this kind of thing.

Obvious troll is obvious.

If this is your view of Musk then you really need to pay attention. He claims to be fighting for free speech, when it’s so obvious he just pushing his own very specific agenda harder than even the most biased people before him. Honestly I’m surprised people are still around believing the bs about him being in favour of free speech.

Age verify? You just give an 18+ date of birth when you make the account

Oh man that’s a classic

…I reserve the right to remain silent lol

burggit.moe, nsfw instance. Went there because some of the stuff I’m into had been banned from lemmynsfw, but…yikes. They go a little too extreme into some areas for me aye.

As much as I hate Meta and hate Twitter, more competition between them is a win imo. It also helps break the mindset of people that there aren’t any alternatives to twitter, which makes them more likely to try things like Mastodon.

If I use it it’ll be from a federated fediverse instance after Threads connect to it. I’m not running there, but I genuinely think it’s better that it exists.

r/196 became all lgbt stuff, so it followed over. IIRC the mods were really trigger happy with removing stuff that didn’t align super close with them politically.

r/197 formed as a direct response to this, and while at first they had issues with too much bounce back to the right with some gross anti-trans memes, once the dust settled and new mods were added, it became the best sub for just mindless shitposting without worrying about fitting a political theme.

It’s something reddit was actually good at. Tons of people used to find reddit way too confusing because they didn’t understand subreddits, so reddit responded by making a list of default subs for the “don’t know don’t care” crowd that makes up 90% of users in practice.

Sure, it opened a different can of worms in that it tanked the quality of those subs when most users didn’t really get the pount of subs, but it massively lowered the barrier to entry on the platform.

We have a much higher barrier to entry with instances, and I really think something should be put in place to lower it.

I’m finding it way better to go to specific communities right now instead of scrolling all. The “isn’t Lemmy awesome” posts are to be expected until the honeymoon period ends. It’ll be at least a month until it clears up.

My best idea for addressing this is a nice clean hub site at a friendly and official sounding url, with a list of as many instances as possible that have open registration, are marked as for general use rather than as specific niche, and don’t have any ongoing defederation drama that’d affect users. Then users can sign up there and be randomly assigned an instance without needing to worry about it.

I think it’ll be a balance. Less 90s internet and more ~2010 internet. Mainstream platforms will stay big, popular and centralised, but the internet has billions of users now. There can be massive thriving networks of people doing their own thing on platforms like Lemmy at the same time as millions of people flock to Twitter or Facebook or whatever.

Imo reddit and twitter had both become too big and bloated, leading to a lit of the toxicity/recycled content. I think there’s plenty of room for more platforms to arise and become successful, while the old ones stay “mainstream”

Basically reddit and Twitter will become the new Facebook over the next 5-10 years.