It will be federated, but not with activitypub. It looks like they’re developing a more comprehensive system for federation

Spotify doesn’t make changes like that on its own, the artist probably did that for a reason

I’ve tried most of the apps, none of them really feel right to me unfortunately. Luckily this issue is just a bug with 0.18.0

Truly a site of the people

This sounds like an extremely annoying way to do things on mobile

I really wish people would think a bit bigger. I hear “I don’t want regular people here/it doesn’t need to grow” all the time but don’t you wonder how much better things would be if the average person wasn’t constantly on a platform designed to enrage and exploit them?

Usernames are only unique within servers, just like with email addresses. there’s only one john@gmail.com but john@yahoo.com is a different person

Then there should be a single unified sign up page that sends you to a random instance or something. You still need an easy onboarding process for less technical people

really annoying that they used that name but don’t have the domain, lol

The problem is it takes time and money to do that, which you can’t really get without some kind of structure. I’ve been wondering what a tech cooperative might look like lately. All the weight of a company like reddit, but owned by the users

And beyond, I imagine