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It's fine, but not great. It works in a pinch, but it doesn't feel nearly as smooth/integrated as a native app.

There are some subreddits I can see value from cross posting from, but this isn't one of them. News and stuff, sure, go for it. Stuff that's personal to a user though feels weird to me.

Kbin/Lemmy and Mastodon remind me of Reddit and Twitter back when the communities on the platform felt more like, well, communities. I don't think Kbin is quite at the critical mass yet (and personally I don't like either Kbin or Lemmy's UIs, while I do love Ivory for Mastodon), but I'm actually really enjoying the platform. Hopefully it continues to grow organically.

Yeah, in theory if it's grown in sterile conditions, pretty much any lab grown meat should theoretically be safe to consume raw.

I didn't watch, but the list of announced games seems pretty decent. Looking forward to a new 2D Mario game, though I hope it doesn't feel as weird/floaty as NSMB did.

Essential viewing for anyone who's ever taken the TTC.

They're behind React which has become pretty ubiquitous in the frontend dev space too.

I'm all for anything that will provide an avenue for people to move off of corporate platforms. The average user doesn't care, but for some of the more tech-savvy FB/Insta/WhatsApp users who join it could be an interesting way to get their feet wet and maybe look to move to alternate platforms without leaving their contact behind completely.

I posted this on Mastodon, but I completely disagree with the idea of defederating from Meta instances on principal for the same reason I don't want my Fastmail account to stop interacting with Gmail accounts just because I feel Google is too corporate. That defeats the entire purpose of open standards and federated content. I should be able to choose to personally block content from Meta instances if I want to, but it's to the detriment of the community to fracture the Fediverse just because it's starting to grow large enough to attract attention from one of the big tech companies.

The reality is, a federated Meta service would at least initially grow the idea of federated social media as a whole, and likely drive traffic to Kbin/Lemmy/Mastodon from people who want to get off of the Meta platforms, but don't want to cut contact with their friends/coworkers/enemies entirely. While I probably wouldn't make an account, I'd be interested in at least being able to follow a few of my friends who I actually have interest in seeing updates from via my Masto/Kbin accounts.

And I'm aware of the embrace/extend/extinguish paradigm, but premature defederation isn't the answer there either.

I'm an advocate for federated content for convenience, not on principal alone.

Ironically, they've been calling them Communities officially since around when New Reddit launched.

Hopefully one of the iOS apps also swaps over. I loved Sync when I was on Android though.

It'd be interesting to have metamagazines or something along the like. There's a lot of repeat mags out there that would benefit from an easy way to share/federate at a smaller scale than per-instance.