As did Pleroma and several other fedi servers — that’s not really innovation, it’s something simple that Mastodon devs deliberately avoided implementing.
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I can very much second the “Otherland” series. I’m not much of a fantasy fan (and can’t manage to sink my teeth into Williams’ other series because of that), but I found Otherland to be a very enjoyable and memorable series. Definitely worth it just for Otherland.
Better yet, check out NewPipe on F-Droid. :^)
It depends; I often find it useful, so long as they’ve formatted/commented it well, or at least don’t mind questions.
The federation with Mastodon is mostly one-way: We can’t see or comment on Mastodon posts, but Mastodon users can see and comment on Lemmy posts.
Mastodon’s like Twitter… its posts wouldn’t fit in the Lemmy UI well. Though I hear kbin works well with both Mastodon-style and Lemmy-style posts.
Missed the chance for the title “There will never be a second Second Life,” real shame.
Your redirect idea would probably work excellently as a browser extension — there are are redirect extensions like that for Mastodon already, actually.
As for the domain… the only thing I can think of would be, like you said, a Lemmy instance.
I hope it very much doesn’t get defederated. Meta’s service would have less of a lock-in effect if it could communicate with other servers. The primary reason people stick to platforms like Facebook & co. is that their friends and family are on it; but if they can keep talking to them on a different platform, they’re suddenly much more susceptible to ditching Meta and ditching apathy in regards to privacy.
Be seemingly friendly to Meta and any other social media company that starts using ActivityPub — so that we can get normies to ditch them and join the libre side. :)
(ofc, this position is on a case-by-case basis and hinges on how exactly federation is handled by the service at hand. We'll see!)
… it’s not a downside of the protocol, it’s just a literal impossibility. Once someone’s downloaded something, you can’t do a thing to take it back.