Bilb!

Exactly, people fleeing twitter will find something that is definitely not twitter and they will bounce.

A very small percentage of that number will stay and be active.

The first five words of the title

Friendica integrates both with Diaspora and ActivityPub.

Its whiskers are singed!

In a hypothetical future world where there are many vibrant lemmy communities, a person with their own instance could participate in each without their identity being tied to an instance owned by someone else. You could also host a com related to a project you maintain that would be open to lemmy users form other instances, etc.

There is also the problem of having your federation choices made for you. If you use a federation instance with good moderation policies, they also likely do not federate with instances that do not. That’s perfectly understandable and I support any instance owner doing that, but I would prefer to make those choices myself.

At this point it might be premature, but maybe this is a use case you want someone kicking the tires on.

Does it make sense to use a single-user instance like I do with pleroma? Probably not at this stage since it would require manual whitelisting, right?