hate to break it to you but /. does all of those things. maybe not as effectively as tiktok but still

With Threads we're now pushing a hundred million users. As big as twitter during arab spring.

Delete your slashdot account and put your phone down and never pick it up.

The real world includes the world of human social interaction, and that has always been mediated as long as we've been communicating with groups outside of our little hamlets and demes

wrote up a comment but it was deleted. tl;dr free speech exists on the fediverse, and if you choose to value it you can have it. whether or not the fediverse is "about" free speech is almost irrelevant. The parts of the fediverse that have free speech are "about" it and there will be those of us who connect the rest of the network to freedom whether or not the prudes and the censors want to try to wall themselves off.

'Multi-server but all under control by an unaccountable central point of failure' you mean

Search is way easier in centralized systems, obviously.
As far as algorithmic filtering of content, you can do that already on the fediverse, you just have to do it manually on your own database of posts. The UI isn't quite there yet on servers like pleroma, but it will get there if it's seen to be a useful feature.

good thing disney's priorities is making their service more defective by design, and harder to use for their paying customers and not fixing their buggy-AF UI or producing more content

it makes it easier to compete with them and an easier sell for a cartoon producing entity to replace them

Since you can't distribute modified versions, this is effectively locked within microsoft's walled garden, just like winamp always was. It should be considered a dead project, since no one should be touching github in the first place.

Did you submit these as bug reports to the audacious/other projects?

DDG and Kagi and Brave are also bullshit due to AI.

Still is. The pandemic hasn't ended.

"Investigators are working around the clock to determine how the aircraft managed to have an empty seat."

FreeBSD is also free software as defined by the FSF. ZFS is too.

When were you born?

They were a membership organization run by 3 universities.

You're right: different parts of the fediverse are broken in different ways. You might notice, though that if you avoid instances behind the rainbow curtain (such as plush.city) that there's less of this sort of thing

It's a lot easier than moving from twitter to any alternatives, that's for sure. Some instances have migration functionality, but it's generally janky. It's FLOSS though so if this functionality is important to you...you can build it. Whereas if this functionality were important to you there is virtually nothing you can do to get it put into twitter.