Narrator: and they did.

Juicy and delicious 😋

The first light grey item, near the bottom.

No no no no no - keep up! We’re talking about “Jason” - the one who was killed but came back to continue his task anyway… oh, I see the confusion now 🤔🤪

Don’t ask - if he told you then he’d have to kill you…

oh no, not again.

Skill issue.

git guud

Edit: oh derp, somehow I entirely misread your message as that you had not heard of Friendica’s entire existence. Sorry, ignore this if you like, or perhaps it’s interesting in a different manner now. 😜

Your instance is quite a bit cut off from the rest of the Fediverse, although even so the news of Friendica has made waves - e.g. https://beehaw.org/post/521802 with >800 comments.

Friendica is fairly niche though, and suffers from a lot of problems. For one, as a Facebook replacement it relies upon your family members and close friend group to also use it - but unless you act as tech support and install it onto their machines for them (alongside Linux and everything needed for them to self-host), then how else will you be able to communicate with them on that platform?

And it more or less does need to be either self-hosted or at least hosted exceedingly often, since it does not scale well and users of the project have started begging for technical support from outsiders (not a great example of the latter but see this informational post).

In short, there are reasons for its lack of spread so far. I do not know if those issues are solvable - though by now perhaps they already have been? It’s just a very different model from the more semi-anonymous platforms like the Fediverse, which can make things challenging.

Oh.

The Internet itself surely will continue, but yes the “free and open” version is already gone (how to test this: attempt to self-host a website now, like a Lemmy instance, and see how long until AI scrapers bring it to its knees).

Slaves?

Surely they have daemons inside of them?