Some of the news and politics communities added an automatic comment to new posts that linked to fact checking information, and a big portion of the community lost their minds about it. A lot of people found it biased, obtrusive, or unnecessary, and it generated a lot of conflict between the people who liked it or felt neutral. It went through many iterations based on the feedback before being removed entirely.

The entire saga was fairly disruptive and everyone is glad it’s over.

Well, then someone would just create a directory that associates each ipv6 with the name of the company using it, so you can search for the easy to remember, human readable name which automa-

Oh I see what happened here.

Don’t get me wrong - I certainly earn most of the downvotes I get. That was just a weird one that caught me off-guard. It is as you say.

It’s not federated. There is no roadmap to actual federation.

The code is open, so it’s possible that some dedicated devs may one day spin up a version that is actually federated under a different name.

Ah… I did not understand the auction link. I thought “expired” meant that the auction ended. I guess it describes the status of the domain.

Thanks

Edit: who tf downvoted me admitting my mistake and thanking for the clarification lol

Digital trust is a really complicated thing. DNS sure beats most of the alternative I can think of.

Is there a way to know who bought it? Did they get it back or is it some rando or is it a known third party?

Can anyone eli5?

Will it federate with AP platforms?

“We’re leaving X” would be the better translation, I think.

There have been some platforms that combined form factors like Friendica and mbin

I have to say, I never used Tumblr, but I know that it was suggested as an alternative to either Twitter and/or reddit. How is it different and or similar from microblogging and the threadiverse?