…this is the first time in the entire Fediverse that I feel not-that-old 👀

Names are subjective. “Youtube” makes no sense if you discard all the grab that it has now in retrospective. “Craiglist” is even worse.

Less “platforms”, more “content in the platforms” tbh.

But quite definitively, local government agencies and municipal level agencies participating in their respective national instances. Defo reduces the dependency on Shitsites.

Piefed is also blocking left-aligned Fediverse instances, so it’s worth to being mindful. The dev has a previous history on applying CCP-inspired shadow profiles / “social credit”, as well as some underhanded editorializing of other people’s posts at the view stage (if not earlier). Honestly I thought from previous interactions he had learned better, but oh well, there’s always room for disappointment.