JohannesOliver

Beehaw defederated from some of the larger Lemmy instances due to problem users and limited moderation abilities (Lemmy as a platform, limited staff). As one of the larger Lemmy instances themselves and where many Reddit folks went, this rubbed some people the wrong way. Beehaw has a specific idea about the community they want and are proactive in protecting that vision, I don’t know how this makes them “corporate” but there you go.

You can for yourself, hosting a large instance for others does require time, financing, a legal entity (if for nothing else, liability purposes). Most people are much more likely to use what is already there unless they have an itch to do it themselves.

Mastodon is a non-profit that also hosts the largest mastodon instance, ultimately I think there will be a ton of small hobbiest instances and a few big ones - they should preferably be run by non-profits to help avoid the current Reddit situation (more like other open source projects).

It doesn't have to be a memory, NIST still runs two telephone time numbers - (303) 499-7111 (WWV) and (808) 335-4363 (WWVH). They say they get about 1000 calls a day which is surprisingly high.

They're still on shortwave too.

The late 80s and 90s weren't so bad. I think a lot of what they call "internet" is really reflecting the algorithmic, intentionally addictive social media (vs the old forums, that were sort of niche even then), and "cell phones" likely smart phones that are a prime avenue for accessing that social media. I'd probably give up my smart phone convenience for a phone-less Spotify streamer and a standalone GPS.

So many sitcom episodes just wouldn't work if they had a cell phone.

I think they are likely referring to smart phones and I sort of agree with that one specifically. I've been tempted to get a standalone GPS but I'm also addicted to streaming music.

Absolutely, take my vote.

That includes people it knows about from Federated servers.

For the real numbers you need to use their nodeinfo, for example: https://kbin.social/nodeinfo/2.0

Kbin has 30119 right now.

It’s also low pagerank right now.

It doesn’t. Post or comment votes affect that post or comment.

In the long run they are hoping for more flexibility. I think it is incorrect that they are separating from “all the major instances” but they are separating from (two) servers with open account creation. I personally think an instance admin should be informed when their users are being banned from other instances, so they have the option to review behavior and consider if they would like to do the same. Sh.itjust.works at least has instance rules that should be compatible with most of what beehaw doesn’t like.

They do want similar features that are available on mastodon, that essentially allow their users to interact with the outside world but the ability limit what comes in. It’s still a disingenuous take though, as it has nothing to do with image hosting, not allowing people to view their content, etc. They just don’t want assholes.

It was an issue in Mastodon originally too, but Mastodon added more flexibility to the platform and the nuke option wasn't the only option.