FediThing 🏳️🌈<p>Old enough to remember when the official Mastodon site used to promote a diverse range of small instances, and made fun of Meta instead of collaborating with it.</p><p>This used to be on their front page, long gone now 😢 </p><p><a href="https://fedi.video/w/cbQE3NRw76FayQCSdb14TU" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fedi.video/w/cbQE3NRw76FayQCSd</span><span class="invisible">b14TU</span></a></p><p>Instead, we now have a front page telling people to sign up on mastodon.social, an instance list that prioritises large instances, and a blog gushing over how wonderful it is to see Meta federating with them.</p><p>Greatly appreciate the work Eugen has done, but his current direction of travel is deeply worrying.</p><p><a href="https://social.chinwag.org/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://social.chinwag.org/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://social.chinwag.org/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> <a href="https://social.chinwag.org/tags/Threads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Threads</span></a> <a href="https://social.chinwag.org/tags/FreeFediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeFediverse</span></a> <a href="https://social.chinwag.org/tags/DefederateThreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DefederateThreads</span></a></p>