It's absolutely an issue for hobby level open source projects.
It looks like you have to have a paid Apple developer account to do it.
Probably some actual racists and a whole bunch of people who thought it would be funny to embarrass Microsoft by getting it to say the most offensive thing they could imagine.
That's interesting. This post had suggested it isn't yet possible to host an AppView. It seems the reality is more complex.
Whether it soon becomes possible to self host an AppView, the one remaining centralized component will tell us a lot about where it's headed.
ATProto is almost there with the only missing piece being the AppView. I'm not sure if BlueSky is hesitant about releasing theirs as open source, but I don't think there are any barriers to a third party implementing one.
Apple does have an email service, but I think "Apple Mail" is the name is the client, not the service.
This looks like it's conflating service providers and clients. Thunderbird doesn't provide email accounts to the public as far as I know.
Yes. I think it's good not to form opinions about subjects you don't know much about.
When it comes to voting in an election, it's possible to make good decisions about candidates without forming opinions about every policy issue. That's kind of the point of representative democracy.
That's enlightening. It links to an article about self hosting a relay, which explains that, as I suspected, a relay does not have to mirror the entire network. It also seems that using a relay at all is an optional optimization.
It looks like the BlueSky AppView is not (yet?) open source. I wonder why nobody has built an alternative yet.
It's almost certainly the number of candidates. On the other hand, top three out of a much smaller number doesn't present voters with a lot of choice.
Yes. I use it to post pictures of birds.
Discovery built into Mastodon and ActivityPub microblogging in general isn't great (and some people claim that's a good thing). One place to look for people to follow is https://fedi.directory/