I presume they would maintain separate user account databases (without some concerted hacking).

I’m hoping at some point that different services will allow shared logins (with APIs it should be relatively straightforward) or a separate ID service (ActivityPods?).

There are a few British Mastodon instances:

• https://mastodonapp.uk
• https://mastodon.me.uk

If we were to add another service, I’d want something a bit more interesting.

I’ve sorted a Guardian feed: !theguardian@rss.ponder.cat

Peanuts are legumes, although they are usually classed as nuts. A worthy winner either way.

It is odd when I see people compare Bluesky unfavourably with Mastodon when a lot of the features they want are on *key forks.

I haven’t tried it but I’ve seen various comments that suggest it works well. Time to do some research…

Coconut has a lot of saturated fat, so I’d say unhealthy. Deep-fried Snickers on the other hand…

A counter-argument is that they are punishing mental illness:

In mitigation the court heard Ruane had mental health issues from childhood trauma and had alcohol dependence.

The defendant claimed he had no memory of sending the messages as he was “blind drunk” every day at the time.

Like the Prevent scheme where a “staggeringly high” number people on it are autistic.

You can bridge the two now.

What is the incentive for people to host an instance at the moment?

I liked the community that had built up and wanted to help that continue.

Because people will choose convenience over their vey own survival.

See Cory Doctorow’s Bluesky and enshittification.

I just use Threadiverse and Threads can go piss up a rope.

Now there’s an argument to be had. I ave tried Mastodon and Firefish and found the latter to be far superior, feature-wise. I think Iceshrimp will be the *key fork that will finally the big breakout hit, especially with the Iceshrimp.net rewrite.

The best thing for on-boarding are topic-specific instances, it makes picking one much easier.

Mastodon isn’t even the best micro-blogging service on the Fediverse.

What would be the incentive for people to do that?

With no safeguards the users won’t know it’s a trap until it’s sprung.

I was considering getting their RSS feed dragged through to Lemmy via:

https://rss.ponder.cat/post/1454

Apparently, one issue is not being able to price promotions on baby formula which has reduced competition and kept prices high.

I don’t know if it is being done but in medication specific formulations have codes so you can compare products (it highlights Nurofen’s rebranding and varying the price on identical painkillers) and that could work here. The news reports say parents go for the big name brands because they want guaranteed quality and something like that code system would help reassure parents that a cheaper brand is just as good.