An era of the internet is ending, and we’re watching it happen practically in real time. Twitter has been on a steep and seemingly inexorable decline for, well, years, but especially since Elon Musk bought the company last fall and made a mess of the place. Reddit has spent the last couple of months self-immolating in similar ways, alienating its developers and users and hoping it can survive by sticking its head in the sand until the battle’s over. (I thought for a while that Reddit would eventually be the last good place left, but… nope.) TikTok remains ascendent — and looks ever more likely to be banned in some meaningful way. Instagram has turned into an entertainment platform; nobody’s on Facebook anymore…

  • @DudePluto
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    11 year ago

    she needs to join a Mastodon instance for sewing but a different instance for knitting

    Am I missing something? I thought Mastodon worked just like lemmy where you can subscribe cross-instance

    • TomMasz
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      11 year ago

      You can subscribe to an account on another instance, but you can’t get all of the posts on another instance without having an account on that instance.