I realize that Mastodon doesn’t track birthdays for security reasons, but it would be nice to have a “special day” that popped up in friends’ news feeds. It’s probably the nicest feature of FB, to get birthday wishes from friends.

They sign up on AOL or Yahoo Mail or Gmail. Or get an email address through their ISP.

“Here’s your address.” They use it.

“Wah wah it’s so hard to pick a server!”

JUST LIKE EMAIL YOU NITWIT!

An assertion like this requires proof!

Mastodon has third-party starter packs now. I wonder if it works for Pixelfed?

Storage costs keeps getting cheaper, but high quality video keeps taking up more space.

Yes, it relies on federation. I don’t think the data will even be sent to instances unless someone follows you on that instance.