I barely even noticed they got replaced. They never got to have any story involvement or character development, just like most of the rest of the bridge crew in Discovery.

Cheogram Android has the send half of URL preview. I will be adding display on the receive side this year when I get the time.

I really found the coda/epilogue to be distracting. The end of the main story ended in a good place, with Burnham and Booker heading off on their next adventure. And then suddenly we’re getting this long drawn-out “and then later after many adventures they… did something useless we can’t explain but at least they saw their old friends again the end” just really took the wind out of it.

You mean you’ll only see content from people you follow and only people who follow you will see you content? Sounds like working as intended the way things were meant to be.

Stop looking at the federated timeline. Look at posts from people you follow only and you’ll never see spam.

Why would you want this? If you want to see posts from someone, you can follow them.

By that count we could also count every Matrix user as a Jabber user. And every SMS user!

To be fair, the ads are the only reason it’s possible for the creators to make money.

Also, a business model not using ads is possible, doesn’t have to go to non-commercial

These instances are on Pleroma at the moment, and the default frontend we use is Soapbox. There are several other good frontends for Pleroma as well including https://notabug.org/halcyon-suite/halcyon and https://pinafore.social/ – I believe all 3 of these frontends can be used with Mastodon as well but I have not tried that myself.

ActivityPub is the standardization of the ActivityPump (aka PumpIO) protocol, so all this came from that massive fuck you Even threw at the community. Set us back years, but we’re starting to see progress again these days I think, a little.