It is also going to drop soon. When immigrants, illegal or not, are forcibly removed, you don’t only remove the low-level jobs required to keep e.g. farms/factories sustainable (general US populace is unlikely to pick up this kind of low-education/low-wage jobs), which forces these companies to close. On the other hand, fewer people in town also means lower spending power, which means that fewer (e.g. food) businesses are sustainable, and this again leads to the closure of companies. The increase number of companies closing will also mean greater unemployment.

Lemmy is almost perfect, we just need more users here. a new alternative is piefed, greatest point is that you can combine sublemmys from different instances into communities.

Buying there is worse for devs as this is credit card fraud to buy keys and the devs will have to do chargebacks. Devs prefer piracy over key resellers.

I see an US instance. https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt/wiki/flohmarkt-instances

I’m not a coder, good luck with adjusting the code and releasing the app when it’s done. I’ll try it out!

https://github.com/IsaacGemal/wikitok

https://github.com/Zxce3/wakawiki

https://wikitok.vercel.app/ with fediverse posts?

Many people, including some in the thread!

But now that FB is overrun by AI bots and real users leave, there won’t be many mutual friends left very soon…

UK instance please! :)

Maybe you can request your instance to be added here: https://codeberg.org/flohmarkt/flohmarkt/wiki/flohmarkt-instances

Maybe share your vision with the devs or actively contribute yourself to the development of this platform? :)

Fleabook

Feel free to host an US instance :)

Maybe someone may want to put links to Flohmarkt instances on Craigslist or FB Marketplace to put more eyes on it?

People only move to Bluesky because they don’t want to change their thinking (picking instances is hard!) and keep using “Twitter”.

Also, introduce them to the gup.pe concept where social groups can be formed on Mastodon:

https://a.gup.pe/

What new Mastodonians need to understand is that they need to follow hashtags, not people. This should be the first welcoming sentence on any instance.