I also want quotes back instead of screenshots of text.

Pleroma and Akkoma FE can also display conversations as trees.

One thing I never understood about these glasses is that while allegedly blocking blue lights, they do not at all affect white balance. It's not like blue light is UV or IR, wakanda snake oil are they suppose to be?

I use mpv with yt-dlp.

Guess what, you can run Vim inside Emacs inside Vim inside Emacs now!

:q!<CR> is equivalent to ZQ

if I sent you a private message, is that viewable in plain text by not just the instance owner we’re both on

Yes.

other federated instances too?

Not by design, but instances can misbehave.

private messaging over AP

Private is misleading here: for messaging to be private, no third party should be able to read the messages. In practice, this usually requires end-to-end encryption.

I use Liferea, which

• Discovers web feeds from web page's alternate link
• Embeds WebKit to render HTML in full
• Supports RSS comments
• Has configurable enclosure handler, so I can open YouTube in mpv

Remember when Reddit was the free software alternative?

I think group is to be implemented in Mastodon soon™. Qoto's fork already did, and some other microblogging implementations like GNU Social and Frendica had supported such feature since before Mastodon (the software) even existed.

an ole one

Collective to bargain for its workers benefits via legal means or striking.