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To offer the counterpoint:

Local and private communities, if they remain only for meta content, is fine. But if they are used for other content, because they don’t want other instances seeing or interacting with it, it can permit an instance to isolate itself and its content from the rest of the fediverse, while still being able to enjoy all the shared content from other instances. I.e. show me yours, but I won’t show you mine.

Then, if these local only communities are the only places where people on that instance are sharing certain content, it’s breaking the whole idea that it shouldn’t matter what instance you’re on. If instances can remain insular, it starts making more instances attractive based on their size. “If you want to enjoy this content, come join our instance.”

Also safer spaces for groups targeted by bigots

Then they need to ban the bigots. Why should only the people on that instance have access to the safe space? Why is someone from another instance instantly judged as making the safe space less safe? It’s basically saying “come join our instance”, which is, again, going to cause unintended consequences.

So basically Toonami Aftermath? Only with lame modern commercials and not the nostalgic ones from the era?

It’s pretty obvious they don’t like the moderation. They linked the modlog showing what they removed. Comments had been removed by someone other than him. They didn’t care for it

And just in general, Microsoft will enshitify GitHub one day. Its inevitable for every free service run by a public for-profit corporation. You can count on this as much as you can count on climate change.

So why wait until it starts happening? Get started with the move now.

I can’t believe people are still watermarking memes like this. How many years out from Ebaumsworld and still people don’t get how annoying and trashy it is.

Sync has incredibly vocal fanclub that brigades regularly. Did it on reddit, doing it here.

Liftoff has been great so far, but if this can have anywhere near the polish of its reddit counterpart, I’ll have no issues switching. I really want that compressed mode. Looks like RiF almost

I’m using liftoff, and it’s nice, but I’m still waiting for my RIF clone.

Seriously, no arbitrary vacant space between elements, my kingdom for no arbitrary vacant space between elements! Let me fill my screen with text and images so I don’t have to scroll as much.

It’s entirely about your UI preferences, really. Most third party apps had feature parity, and the features they didn’t have were more niche. You could find something each of them did especially well, but the vast majority of features an average user could want were present in all of them. Boost was my preference for a more graphical experience, and RIF was my default for its simplicity.

Sync has an extremely vocal fanclub because its dev is very involved with the userbase directly, but it’s really not much different from the other graphical ones save for its MaterialYou integration, if that’s something you care about. It’s as respectable an app as the others.

If they had longer than 10 days to live I’d suggest trying each one to see which fits your preference…but…