This post is Meta.

On a serious note, can we appreciate Meta's marketing team for the timing of this announcement. They waited for Twitter to bleed to kick it in the shins.

No

Technically you pay to use Youtube by watching adds. People sometimes forget that there are no free lunches.

Same here

My theory is that they are being sneaky and this is a trial to see how it will affect Twitter if they only made it to registered users. That is why they are calling it a "tech" issue. What a bunch of bollocks. This way they can backdown if they see a negative impact by claiming that they "fixed" the issue.

I see you point but I think you are being harsh here. It is clear that it is not to be taken literally that Mastodon is nothing like Twitter in therms of looks. I think the spirit of the OPs comment is that it is the style of conversations, atmosphere and culture that each of them foster what makes them somewhat different.

That means we achieved the full reddification of Lemmy

Am I the only with the paywall for the article?

This guy kinks

Why would he not want to say the reason though? If that was the case, the OP could just say he is a shy pooper. Instead we now suspect that this is some kind of orgy with a fetish.

Please keep them coming.

What about calling them "communities"?