chromodynamic

Since anyone can create their own subreddit and become a mod there, does this mean that anyone can look at these profiles?

But why do people want their text editors to do completely unrelated tasks? Genuine question.

The main differences are:

• package management (how you install new programs)
• release model (fixed vs rolling)
• default desktop environments (the GUI / look and feel)

If a Fedi or BSky instance wants to support connecting to the other side, they should implement both protocols. Bridges are just a duct-tape solution.

I saw an interesting video suggesting that the real motivation is to give megacorps like Google a new business acting as “banks” for identity, i.e. the Internet would get so inconvenient that people would just save their identity with Google (or Meta, etc) and then use them to log in to other websites.

I probably explained it badly, but the video I saw is here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAd-OOrdyMw

People in the comments pointed out that those companies would also have the ability to delete or suspend your identity verification if you did something they didn’t like (or refused to do something they wanted). Reminds me of the SIN from Shadowrun .