#FOSDEM #ActivityPub #fedidev
@haubles just dropped the massive news that Mastodon is going to be changing the default signup flow on mobile apps to choose an instance thats geographically close to you instead of choosing mastodon.social by default!
UPDATE: their official announcement here: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115989801184595302

Networks For Democracy. Das freie Internet wird abgeschafft – es wurde von den Big-Tech-Monopolen übernommen. Die wachsende Dominanz der Plattformkonzerne für Information und Austausch führt zu einer Konzentration von Meinungsmacht, die unsere Demokratie gefährdet. Doch das Internet gehört uns allen, wir müssen es von der Dominanz der Monopolkonzerne befreien: Unsere Gesellschaft braucht andere Plattformen für...
@evanprodromou is up next talking about Tags.pub #HashTagsAreGreat
@liaizon and @Gargron is wrong... I'd say "as usually" but that'd just be mean.
Email clients have been built into rich messaging platforms despite resting on a much more barebones base vocabulary in comparison to ActivityStreams.
What Gagron did was show a severe lack of imagination, and thusly condemn a passable interface to an obscurity that some of us have been trying to overcome ever since...