If only they had functional data backup and export on non-Android platforms…

Exactly! The great thing about Lemmy is that if your instance’s admins start doing stupid stuff you can just go to another instance.

As fun as it is to watch Musk do dumb stuff, giving him credit for killing HSR is a reach. There’s a really great article about it here — even Epstein was involved for some reason!

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/09/us/california-high-speed-rail-politics.html

I remember people constantly asking for that to be a feature on Reddit, but I don’t believe it was ever implemented.

Literally a Unicode character:

https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1D54F

It’s using the MLMYM frontend, which you can actually use via the official MLMYM website with any instance. For example, here is it pointing to lemmy.ml:

https://mlmym.org/lemmy.ml/

It’s another frontend – specifically, it’s this: https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym

You actually did it! Amazing! Thank you so much!

I’ve said this elsewhere, but I don’t really agree with the article’s premise about what happened to XMPP.

XMPP was a niche thing before Google appeared, and it remained a niche thing after Google left. That said, it would have been much better had Google continued to support it!

Not yet, but they’ve said it will be. Personally I’m excited to see “mainstream” social media using ActivityPub, but you’ll find that it’s quite a divisive issue.

Disagree — while the larger communities tended to get kind of lame, Reddit’s smaller communities were quite worthwhile. I want that to continue, just not on Reddit.

This is a great idea, Voyager’s mobile experience is super polished.

Long shot, but would it be possible to get Mlmym installed at old.lemmy.world? Would be a fun throwback!

Not sure if you mean “engineers in general” or “engineers who specifically work on Lemmy.world”, but assuming it’s the former, I’m working on building a self-generating webcomic.

It’s always been my dream to create a website that can completely self-populate with pointless content, and soon my dream shall be a reality.

So if they become so incompatible that they completely separate, doesn’t that basically result in the same thing as OP’s goal of total defederation?

But, like, how?

So you’re Meta, and you want to Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish ActivityPub. Maybe you add some new nonstandard feature that’s not compatible with existing Mastodon clients. Annoying, but are people really going to sacrifice everything they like about their favorite client so they can take advantage of some random proprietary feature?

On android?

Exactly. Personally, I like the idea of the Fediverse going mainstream, even if it has to be via a questionable company like Meta.

But, if you don’t like that idea, that’s fine too — there will be instances with both policies.

Google stopped supporting XMPP, which sucked, but did it have any effects beyond that?

Google’s actions just restored XMPP to the same status it would have been if they’d never supported it in the first place.

While all that is true, you actually shouldn’t do that in your review, as that will often get it flagged/removed. (They’ll think it’s not a “real” review and instead part of a review bombing effort.)