I have multiple accounts, but only really for moderation purposes. Cross-instance moderation is semi-broken, so it’s easier to do it that way. Other than that, having an alt is useful in case your main instance goes down.

I wouldn’t generally worry about impersonation, if someone tries it you could contact the admin of that instance and they’re generally pretty responsive.

Huh. This comic just got added to the site, even though it’s a really old one. It wasn’t in the list of comics yesterday, so he must be adding some old ones

Pixelfed/Mastodon/etc sort of work with Lemmy, in that they can see Lemmy posts. Lemmy can see posts from them if you tag them appropriately, which rarely happens. They only sort of federate properly. And yeah, Loops is like TikTok for the Fediverse.

I’m not saying PieFed is better than Lemmy, just saying that apart from Lemmy, your best option is probably PieFed atm.

Mostly Lemmy via discuss.online, with a little bit of Pixelfed via social.photo and Mastodon via utter.online.

I was using Loops pretty heavily for a while, but the most recent update made it not work right on my phone (and there’s no web version), so maybe I’ll try again when it’s out of beta. It’s also not truly federated atm, so only sort of counts.

I’ve tried out a bit of PieFed and it looks really nice. Probably the best Lemmy threadiverse alternative atm. The dev does some interesting experiments like Private Voting

Epilogue:

Took me a while too

PBF is generally open to interpretation, but I took this more as a generic “Don’t let downers pop your bubble”

Thanks (It was bothering me

Even non-profits aren’t immune to hostile takeovers. OpenAI is a for-profit company controlled by a non-profit, and that hasn’t stopped them from turning into something indistinguishable from a regular for-profit company. They’ve also been making noise about abandoning the fig leaf of the non-profit.

Mozilla is another one where nominally they’re a for-profit controlled by a non-profit, but they’re now getting into shoving ads in your face just like any other company.

It is harder to turn bad when you’re a non-profit but not impossible, without something of a poison pill that makes it unacceptable to for-profit takeovers.

Looks like this came from a publication I haven’t heard of before, called Evergreen Review. They’ve been around a while, this is from the June 1967 issue:

They’ve gone defunct a few times since then, but they’ve come back and they’re still around: https://evergreenreview.com/

They’ve published some interesting pieces of history, here’s the start of one:

God’s Judgment of White America

Malcolm X

On December 1, 1963, about two weeks after President Kennedy’s assassination, Malcolm X addressed a public rally at Manhattan Center in New York City.

Originally, the speaker was to have been Mr. Elijah Muhammad, but the Muslim leader canceled his plans and Malcolm X spoke in his place. The following is the second half of the speech that he gave. At the time, the ideas expressed were considered harshly extremist, yet time has made Malcolm X’s position the position of many American black men today.

In his Autobiography, Malcolm X tells how Mr. Muhammad issued two directives that Muslim ministers were to refrain from discussing President Kennedy’s assassination. It was right after this speech that Malcolm X, in a question-and-answer period, made the remark that led to his suspension as a Muslim minister. In answer to the question, ''What do you think about President Kennedy’s assassination? What is your opinion?" Malcolm X answered, “without a second thought,” as he puts it in his Autobiography, that he saw it as a case of “the chickens coming home to roost,” a remark which made headlines throughout the country. Immediately afterward, Malcolm X was suspended by Elijah Muhammad and directed to stop speaking for ninety days. Soon after, his break with the Muslims was complete and permanent.

The speech has never appeared anywhere before. It is taken from Malcolm X’s own hand corrected copy.

White America is doomed! Death and devastating destruction hang at this very moment in the skies over America. But why must her divine execution take place? Is it too late for her to avoid this catastrophe?

Here’s an out-of-context bit from another one, to fit this community:

THE KID:

I’m not raping you.