Statement on “Join The Fedi” jointhefedi.com is a website owned by known “gender critical” activist Alex Gleason. The domain name and SEO is clearly designed to appeal to individuals curious about the fediverse, and potentially take traffic from joinmastodon.org. Unfortunately, Gleason does not have the best intentions when it comes to helping the fediverse grow. Gleason formerly contributed to other fediverse projects, before being removed from doing so due both his behavior and poor code quality. This is a problematic individual, recommending problematic services.
Join The Fedi has an explicitly right-wing agenda and seems to only promote instances which either a) run the “Soapbox” front-end software created by Gleason himself or b) advertise themselves as “free speech” instances. As of right now, the site actively recommends the following instances:
In other words, Gleason is using the site to promote his own agenda rather than simply gain more users into the fediverse. This is not a site that should be recommended to new users. I would recommend using https://joinfediverse.wiki/ instead!
Thank you!
Robey attempts to explain Disney's "The Little Mermaid" based only on a confusing 59 second TikTok video that he saw while drunk:
the wah's brother gave us some hydroponic machines as a gift, so we're trying out cherry tomatoes and basil. i got a time lapse of the first three weeks of the plants coming up, it is surprisingly creepy! 🌱
A furry VR Chat music video! This is pretty amazing! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdWUaQmcgBw
...besides the good song and cute video, I love the idea of VRChat as an inexpensive movie production platform.
New large VA study shows that vaccination does little to mitigate long covid: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/05/25/long-covid-vaccines-slight-protection/
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