I honestly don't remember but I do recall it's way more of a process than it used to be
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Pretty utilitarian on the ol thinkpad
I am not sure I’d be using any mass communication platform that is primarily developed and/or funded by any government.
One could argue you're using one now.
I think the big reason that nobody's mentioned yet is simply that they were earlier. Back when projects like Tox and Matrix were first starting to pop up, telegram was already fully formed. Signal didn't come until at least a year later and didn't have feature parity until several years later. Telegram by contrast was a much closer experience to WhatsApp and Messenger, making the transition much easier, particularly for low-tech knowledge users.
Looks like we've been making this stuff since 2006 and at decent enough volumes since then.
About 10 km of REBCO was delivered by SuperPower that year in the world’s first manufacturing demonstration to construct a 30 m long power transmission cable that was installed in the power grid
for users to migrate it could be dead on arrival
Sublinks isn't meant to appeal to users, it's meant to appeal to admins.
Russian Oligarch that is actually wealthier
Putin himself has always been a strong contender
Worth noting, they have since publicly apologized
A cohesive culture has definitely formed distinct from the rest of the fediverse. I think microblogging as a paradigm kind of lends itself to this but Lemmy certainly has a distinct culture as well.
I don't think it's fair to write off the entire medium like that. They all share a common ancestor in Twitter and I think it's fair to say the toxicity is inherited from there.
This is not the sentiment you have previously expressed in direct response to these forks and alternatives. Thinking specifically about your activity in the sublinks announcement posts.