Saving some money short term, losing a whole bunch long term.

Great point, this will happen instantly.

Devils advocate here: it’s their webservice right? They determine who can access it.

If there were legislation that would force them to make it interoperable that would be one thing. But you can’t just demand access to their infrastructure.

Release day, 99 percent.

I feel like there are so many factors that could cause these differences, it’s too easy to just say “it’s the iPhone 14”

I still get put on blast on mastodon when I tell someone I use Ivory. Why the hell do they care?

Or they eat some costs for the first two years like adults🙂

Just put in a modern chip to start with if the hardware will be the same for 7-8 years

But now the verified account can be like: ooo wow, we are totally humbled by the love for our product thank you so much you guys!!

Yeah. I liked Reddit and I’m still feeling the “fuck spez” thing.

But there is just nothing to be done: Reddit is going a different way and that’s fine. So now I’m here and again it’s fine. What is nice is that if I understand this federation thing correctly, there can’t be ONE bad actor that messes everything up.

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