Well yeah, Spotify was invented in Sweden, home of Pirate Bay and the Pirate Party. To cite one article about the service: “Developed to bridge the gap between illegal file sharing innovation and a behind-the-times record industry, Spotify is conducting a delicate balancing act.”

Well yes, the whole concept of the fediverse is that of social media as a public service. All activitypub data is public.

TIL Al Gore invented the internet?

Well at least not according to the legal view of the tax authorities… from what I have heard anecdotally over the years about german tax authorities, they seem to be very much not living in a 21st century digital world.

They previously had a pretty unique structure (gemeinnützige GmbH) but the german authorities stripped them from that status saying “free social media is not a public benefit purpose”.

That PR is not even merged and deployed yet. When it gets released: simply ask your instance admin, I guess. (I think looking into the source code might also tell you but no idea where to search exactly)

If people dont care enough to mess with their browser settings thenselves, then they can either a. join a privacy-focused Mastodon instance whose admin will keep the “no referer” policy, or b. live with the fact that choices are being made for them. People need to take actions for themselves, we cant treat everyone like babies.

Read the article. It is a configurable thing and each mastodon server admin has to activate it in order to send a referer.

Huh? There are a looot of communities. Of course, a good number of them are dead. To get a good idea of which smaller communities are active, I’d recommend following the [email protected] posts. @[email protected] did “active communities” overview threads a while ago at [email protected] too.

Beans have cats, duh.

Also [email protected], [email protected] or [email protected]

Now that’s a very openly worded question. I could even answer “their logos” lol

Fyi @[email protected] I have crossposted the meme to [email protected] where the audience might be a bit more appreciative of seeing memes :D

Afaik nutomic recently improved federation interoperability with projects like WordPress that use “Person” instead of “Group”. But idk the technical details for that.

Closed for registrations = no instance user accounts

I’m sure that those agencies have been contacting top players for that game over the last few years. But if those simply dont want to work for them, thats moot.

The Lemmy update notes in June said something about improved interoperability with WordPress though

Hey @[email protected] quick question: how would I go trying to get this Wordpress blog to show up in lemmy as a community? Are we able to fetch like that yet? Thanks!

Oh you could absolutely meme about the protocol itself and the way it is implemented. lots of potential there.

Tagging @[email protected] to hopefully know what the issue is