Not really anything serious.

By poking around https://bonfire.fediverse.observer/list I found two (and only two) with open sign ups that do not say “demo and testing instance”:

Try:

https://discussions.sciety.org/

https://bonfire.home.coop/

It’s kinda amazing to me how they convinced so many people to give them money when that is all they have. I guess people want to have hope.

The story was invented so people would subscribe to his substack, which exists to promote his company.

We’re being manipulated into sharing made-up rage-bait in order to put money in his pocket.

The answer to that is literally in the first sentence of the body of the article I linked to.

GPTZero is 99% accurate.

https://gptzero.me/news/gptzero-accuracy-stats/

https://gptzero.me/ is free, give it a try. Generate some slop in ChatGPT and copy and paste it in.

I’ve tested lots and lots of different ones. GPTZero is really good.

If you read the article again, with a critical perspective, I think it will be obvious.

FYI this article is written with a LLM.

Don’t believe a story just because it confirms your view!

Browse https://piefed.social/topics or https://piefed.social/feeds

These two new features have complete API support so I’m hoping the client apps get on board with these quicker than they have been able to in the past.

See also ~peertube@piefed.social

Check out https://piefed.social/auth/instance_chooser

Coding a carddav export / import would be easy. But realistically every platform will need to just use whatever format Mastodon uses.

And then there’s the question of what would importing fedi contacts into an address book app actually do - most contacts apps would merge contacts based on email address or phone number, neither of which are available in a federated situation. If the app merged based on name that wouldn’t work great either because few people use their full/real name on fedi.

It’s not forced by devs, it is a setting that admins can turn on or off.

Well said.

Admins can set the logo of their instance to be whatever they want.

I’m mindblown that serious career/business people still post on X. Don’t they see the brand damage they’re causing to their company and themselves?

There is also a checkbox somewhere in the admin area which controls whether non-admins can add remote communities or not. So potentially admins could add a couple of remote communities and leave it at that.

With no or low federation, even a Raspberry Pi would be fine.

Thank you Eugen, for everything.

Groups

Check this out

https://mastodon.social/@Bonus@piefed.social