They’ll never have the full Mastodon functionality

Until they do, my only interaction with Threads will be to follow Biden on kbin.

Thanks! It works.

They don’t have the entire Mastodon functionality yet but it is awesome we can follow Biden on Mastodon.

If that’s the case I will go to Mastodon. But I would love to follow Biden on kbin.

How do you do that?

King Charles III isn’t my king either. Still a king though. And doing a much better job than King Charles I

And some usenet servers too while they are at it.

Do you know how to do this?

Can anyone tell me how I can follow President Biden from kbin.social?

https://kbin.social/m/random/p/5219740/First-post-in-the-fediverse

Can you explain how you know this link path to someone who doesn’t?

You can post to their communities from any instance. They have no way to enforce “ban evasion” so it is ridiculous they are even using that term.

I’ve seen lots of people say “federation is like email”, but to me it’s like Usenet.

It is a lot like Usenet, but Usenet has some superior features.

1. Discussion groups are automatically merged across all servers. So it is decentralized but does not feel decentralized.

2. Newreaders only show you content that you have not already read/seen

3. Readers let you kill articles in subscribed newsgroups and threads within subscribed newsgroup articles so that you don’t see them in the future.

Asking someone to download and install a Usenet client then set it up to connect to a server of their choice and then subscribing to newsgroups is way above and beyond what most people are willing to do in 2023, sadly.

This is not true at all. People download phone clients all the time. And there were also Usenet web clients. Subscribing to newsgroups is exactly the same as subscribing to subreddets or kbin magazines. And you have to pick a server for Fedverse also, but the the Usenet server doesn’t matter at all like a Fedverse server does.

The only reason people don’t use Usenet is because the free servers disappeared and ISPs no longer provided it with your internet service.

These growth rates for reddit alternatives are insane. I love it.

there are 10 million bureaucrats in china

Who can very easily take orders from Taipei

yes, it is. it’s logistically impossible.

It’s not. The PRC simply needs to apply become part of the Republic of China again. That is literally all it takes. The rest is just details.

they really do support the CCP.

They really do not. We’ve had the Covid protests, the Hong Kong protests, and the Democracy Wall protests. When the Communist dictatorship is overthrown, it will happen fast, and Taiwan’s help will be needed for their expertise in democracy. Also, the current dictator is literally the very worse one since 1976.

independent organizations have done studies in China.

It is literally impossible for “independent organizations” to objectively “study China”. But in general dictatorships NEVER have more than 15-25% or so of the population. Your stance that Chinese do not want freedom and democracy and control over their own country seems racist. Your stance that only white people want and are capable of having freedom and democracy is totally obsurd.

it’s very possible. it’s happening right now in Hong Kong.

Because Britain foolishly turned control of Hong Kong to Beijing instead of Taipei. If China tried to invade Taiwan it would result in another Ukraine situation, where the entire free world unites against the imperialist aggressors.

I support Taiwan too. I prefer Democracies over authoritarian regimes.

No you don’t. Let’s be real here. You are an apologist for the Communist tyranny. You do not understand how obvious it is but no American would ever say what you said.

The approval rating for the CCP is very high (much higher than democratic countries in the West).

First of all NEVER EVER believe that a dictatorship has a “very high approval rating”. (1) the people have never approved them ever, and (2) If their approval rating really was “very high”, there would be no reason at all not to allow democracy. (3) naive westerners have a long and famous history about being repeatedly conned by dictatorships.

And 2nd LOL that is obvious BS. This happened LESS THAN A YEAR AGO.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_COVID-19_protests_in_China

differences between west germany / east germany v taiwan / china

Dude, I already knew all that stuff. So what? None of that is relevant to what I said. The fact remains that (1) Taiwan’s government could be extremely useful in helping China convert to democracy in a stable manner, and (2) It is totally impossible for Taiwan to unify with China unless China becomes democratic like Taiwan. So since #2 is a necessity, it follow that #1 will always be a very important consideration.

Google is doing nothing with their Usenet archive. Hopefully they haven’t destroyed it.

Google would probably like to take over the user generated content somehow. If people can find it on Google even when it is not available on Reddit then it is pure profit for Google

All they would have to do is start Deja News (the most famous free Usenet server and archive) back up. They could do it tomorrow if they wanted to. And I guarantee you it would be talked about on /s/redditalternatives and /m/RedditMigration

So at this point, what is Google supposed to even serve?

Google has the entire Deja News (Usenet) archive, more valuable than Reddit except for the older age. And they don’t let you access it anymore.

I still think that the best move is to leave Reddit for alternatives

Me too. I am actually tiring of all these Reddit ‘call to arms’. Just leave Reddit already.