The problem with hashtags is that the post itself won't be federated unless someone is following the user who made the post (or someone who boosted it). So Lemmy would be unable to see those posts anyways.
I have thought about a simple ActivityPub service that pulls a Mastodon RSS feed of a hashtag and boosts them all from a group/community actor, I think that would work for following from Lemmy.
X and Facebook are closed source, so you can't review them and they could be hiding stuff in their code or just do things people don't like and we can't revert
they also control the servers and don't let you self host, so they can make bad admin decisions and there's nothing we can do
and they also horde the content so you can't get it from somewhere else, which means you can't just leave and use a different platform (not easily at least)
over here if you don't like the devs then you don't need to donate to them, you don't need to use their instance, or we can fork their code, or even use an alternative (like Mbin vs Lemmy)
Nobody in general says "you need to join e-mail", it's usually "join GMail" or "join Yahoo". I don't know how it would be solved without detracting from the "choose the instance that is right for you" experience though
No I think you're right, give them an instance. They won't have enough knowledge to choose an instance anyways. If they don't like the one you gave them then they can move later.
OP please edit your post to put the link in correctly https://techcrunch.com/2025/02/04/google-removes-pledge-to-not-use-ai-for-weapons-from-website/