Imagine being the one guy who runs both of those and having them both blow up at once though 🪦rip

They should populate your home feed. Mine do. Could be because the site’s been a bit wobbly today…?

Edit: actually, it might only work for new posts with those tags!

I don’t think that it can just be declared satisfied, though. I imagine Google and Apple’s obscenely top-shelf representation will be like, “this has about this much legal merit”:

But who knows! :)

as long as 90 days if a path to a qualified divestiture has been identified, “significant” progress has been made to executing the divestiture, and legally binding agreements for facilitating the divestiture are in place.

My point is that no path has been identified, no progress has been made, and nothing is in place.

Yes. The Android app has some serious problems right now. Pixelix is probably the best Android app for now - though it has it’s own rough edges. It’s $2.99 in the Play store but free on F-Droid.

Using them together, however, does make for one complete (but inconvenient) app.

Edit: one of the worst Pixelix pain points was that notifications didn’t actually link to the things it was notifying you about. This was just fixed in an update. The only thing you really lose out on is push notifications in the official app now.

I’m curious whether “can probably get away with it” is enough for them. And whether they’ll take the risk for no reward whatsoever in the case of Apple and Google.

I’m way more interested in the reactions of Google, Apple, Oracle, and the dozens of other corporations ByteDance depends on.

The “90-day extension” Trump keeps talking about has no basis in law except to conclude an in-process divestment, which currently doesn’t exist. He can order the law not to be enforced, but you’re still breaking the law. It’ll interesting to see if those companies are willing to along with an executive order their counsel knows is illegal or are willing to knowingly break the law under the promise they won’t be prosecuted (for now).

edit: IANAL

It prohibits other companies from providing support services to them too.

I don’t think it should be a dilemma - but some do. I don’t see why there can’t be different corners of the Fediverse. This is my most isolated account here and I’m fine with that. I don’t personally want or need integration with Mastodon. I’m glad mbin has that for people who do but I’m not interested in it. And I think it’s kind of cool that there are different cultures within Fedi. Mastodon, Pixelfed, and Lemmy are all so different from each other and I don’t think it’s a problem to solve.

I know the ActivityPub authors were concerned about Mastodon getting so big because it only implements a small portion of the AP spec. So they’re stoked that others are building out in ways that expand beyond the needs of microblogging.

Aaaaaand it’s gone

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/18/24346961/tiktok-shut-down-banned-in-the-us

Don’t make me show you the back of my hand

Haven’t read the article as it’s paywalled to the max, but apparently Oracle is prepping to shut down TikTok’s servers tonight:

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/oracle-prepares-to-start-shutting-tiktok-servers-saturday-night

Reuters reporting the same:
https://www.reuters.com/technology/oracle-prepares-start-shutting-tiktok-servers-0200-gmt-information-reports-2025-01-19/

Yep!

" Built by pixelfed. Proudly serving the fediverse since 2020. "

Fedidb

Yeah, it’s crazy. Same thing for Loops, FediDB, Sup, and his million other projects. He’s a one man band right now. And he has a full-time job on top of that!

I don’t think that can go on for much longer with Pixelfed blowing up – and they’re still onboarding about 1000 people per hour. Just for moderating pixelfed.social, he said yesterday that he’s received more reports in the last 48 hours than in the last 7 years. There’s only so many hours in a day.

They do. I could be wrong, but I don’t think Pixelfed supports groups yet so I don’t think you can interact in a meaningful way. I looked you up from pixelfed.social. I can see your account and could follow you but Pixelfed only shows posts with attached media so I can’t see any of your posts/comments.

A few of those projects just need to mature and have teams working on them, I think. There’s nothing wrong with him bouncing around to different projects but it sucks that no one’s working on Pixelfed if he isn’t. It’d be great if he could secure enough funding for an additional paid dev on each of his major projects.