Well, it's a list of "well maintained/moderated servers
Any server that federates with threads, a product of Meta a company known for their low quality moderation and lack of ethics, is clearly not a well maintained/moderated one.
It's not a new rule. The admin is just applying the sites rules as they are, instead of making exception for threads as many of the techbro admins that are getting their servers excluded have been doing.
Not only is PixelFed not a competitor in terms of users, but the dev is desperate to cooperate and welcome Meta to the Fediverse. So it doesn't represent any kind of threat for the company's goals, at least at the moment.
See how quick he was in defending meta after they came with the bug excuse and how quickly he's adding threads to the fediverse datebase to the point that the clone of Zuckerberg's account that cannot even fully interact yet is called "the most popular fediverse account"
I think part of the issue with Ello was that they sell themselves as non-corporative social media while maintaining two of the most important characteristics of corporative social media:
The story would have gone completely different if they
Had made it open-source allowing users to contribute to the project, both as devs and through donations.
Added decentralisation and federation, allowing others to make their own Ello servers. This could have taken a lot of weight (financial and otherwise) from the developers/founders. Users cost money. Dividing the user base within different servers, pay by and moderated by different people means dividing the costs.
You say this as if the US weren't behind most atrocities in the world. Of course they won't do anything.
You say this as if there weren't like fifty twitter-style microblogging fediverse software
Basically, Lemmy communities and Kbin magazines are federated as groups to the micro and macroblogging fediverse. People in friendica, mastodon or Firefish can interact with Lemmy and kbin by mentioning a community/magazine in their posts and following them the way they do with other types of federated groups (like guppe, chirp, friendica forums, etc)
Pixelfed didn't have federates group support, meaning that its federation with the threadiverse was bad, not to say practically non-existent. Supporting federated groups and even having its own type of group will allow people on pixelfed to interact with Lemmy and Kbin the way other fediverse software do: following them and tagging the community/magazine handle in posts.
short summary: It means better federation between Pixelfed, and Lemmy and Kbin.
I never used brave. I wasn't interested in it since I learned it was chromium and all the crypto stuff.
What they don't seem to understand is that in the fediverse it's them who are responsible for curating their own experience, there's no big content algorithm doing it for them here.
It's their job to join communities they may like and then set their main page to "subscribed". They don't have to keep it set in "ALL" if they don't want to see content from all the servers their server federates with/isn't defederated from.
Lemmy and kbin may be discussion platforms/link aggregators, but they aren't reddit.
You can't follow tags (something that should be added), but you can add them to Antennas
Why is mastodon the worse one?
Lack of essential features and the toxicity within it servers.
It was meant to be federated, privacy friendly, self-hosted, less toxic twitter alternative for small communities
1- I didn't say it had to be a twitter clone. What I said is that some people coming from Twitter that weren't convinced by Mastodon, may be could have find other microblogging more adequate for their needs and usage. Each microblogging platform has its personality and usability, and Mastodon wasn't for them.
The problem is when people are told that there's nothing beyond Mastodon (regarding microblogging) on the fediverse, so they end up running away from the fediverse, after not finding a home on Mastodon.
2- It failed at being less toxic.
Witch hunts over petty arguments, negative reaction to newcomers not knowing how things work, racism that gets minimalised as "not as bad" by big part of the user base.
The fact that it doesn't have quote posting because it "allows for toxic behaviour", when other platforms have it and say toxicity is almost non-existant in using that feature, it's in itself a red flag.
Antennas allow you to create secondary timeline of accounts, terms and tags without them having to appear in the primary timelines.
That way you can follow content from people without follow people.
Here the official explanation from Misskey:
Antenna is a feature that allows you to freely set conditions for a custom timeline and automatically collect matching notes. Antenna conditions can include conditions to include/exclude certain keywords and tags in different combinations as well as other options. When a note matching an antenna's conditions is posted, the note will automatically be added to that antenna's timeline.
Why would I want to follow either account?