If you are in the EU, complain to your GDPR officer. Californians also have similar legislation.
Let's wait for their August numbers. It's going to be a lot clearer than that 7% monthly slide by then.
Those other, subpar sites like Slashdot and Digg.
The Eternal September hasn't really even started yet.
The advantage of community-owned Fediverse is that admins and mods can be more responsive. As an admin, you can choose a stricter quality metric for your instance, and enforce it.
The first one is also up now.
Immediately thought the same. And extend the grounding/revoke privileges.
Can confirm. I wouldn't want to be the postmaster responsible for consistent delivery to the Big Three. You would have better chances talking to walls.
To be fair, you can actually install your own photovoltaics. I heat with hardwood and currently make net half of electricity I consume.
Little things by individuals do add up. Absence of them of course does, too.
FOAF network for validation. For PGP signing parties people could even ask for ID.
The most thorough option is running your own instance. Most won't do this, but you can.
When Reddit was open source you could set up your instance. But unmaintained, and without federation.
History never repeats, but sometimes it rhymes.