Taking the insanely massive emissions of the AI industry, it may not be genocide in the traditional sense, but it's contributions alone will lead to people dying
From the perspective of someone who has been on Lemmy for a few years now, I'll say that the amount of content here has become large enough for me to use Lemmy as a "daily driver" account. I don't miss out on important news or updates by using Lemmy instead of Reddit...in fact it often feels quite the opposite
I am so in love with the idea of this bike and it's predecessor the Buffalo, and I really wish that they would turn their attention for "relief" towards North America. I am sure that there are many people in Africa who benefit greatly from these bikes, but the "we're going to save your community because you haven't discovered bikes yet" model is pretty heavily loaded with some at-least-orange flags for white saviorism.
I really wish that instead of (or at least in addition to) trying to save the poor people on the other side of the world, they'd send a few dozen of these things to homeless shelters around the country. I understand that many people don't think homeless people deserve nice things and might think this is a waste, but the freedom and mobility of a bicycle is just as powerful for lifting people out of poverty here as it is in Africa.
The butterfly logo is one of the greatest things about that company, especially after Bad Man #2 decided to kill the beautiful bird logo. What an absolute waste that was.
Its true, but we do also have a proven base of both users and experienced admins that has proven to be resilient and self-sustaining even in the world where the winds of capitalism or VC money aren't throttling growth.
Its always a risk putting your faith into a single person, but Dan is the same guy who built Pixelfed. He's a Fediverse OG, literally the exact opposite of a grifter. Trusting him is a risk for sure, but I can't think of many other developers I'd trust more than him (at least in terms of his intentions and determination... I'm not a skilled dev so I can't speak to whether he actually does good work, but Pixelfed seems incredibly legit given the limited resources he's worked with)
Threads is implementing it in phased rollouts and I think they saw the writing on the wall with X that Bluesky was the next "big thing" and wanted to jump on a competitor protocol that had already been developed and already had an active base of both users and developers.l, whereas Bluesky is building everything in house from the ground up with the AT protocol.
WordPress has a plugin that is developed by Automattic (as close to core WP as you can without actually being core WP) which essentially turns every WordPress site into an ActivityPub feed. Its really cool and an incredibly powerful tool for publishers.
Flipboard is also implementing ActivityPub as we speak, and it seems like they are quite bought in on the concept. Their CEO hosts a podcast about the Fediverse.
Ghost is a publishing platform similar to Substack that is also working to implement ActivityPub and is doing a lot of the heavy work in terms of trying to figure out what longer-form publishing could look like within the fediverse, as opposed to being a network of different Twitter clones.
Mastodon is never going to be That Platform and that's ok. It doesn't need to be. The ActivityPub protocol is the highest value aspect of Masto, and there are a handful of other, larger, easier to use platforms that are adopting it.
One finger victory salute