One thing I haven’t seen mentioned yet is that Mbin supports custom magazine/community CSS like Old Reddit did. Don’t think it’s federated currently though, so it’s local only. There’s also the ability to follow users and boost (retweet) content, which Lemmy lacks.

Judging by recent posts by Piefed’s creator, they seem to be planning to add end-to-end encryption and ephemeral content.

They don’t. Some subreddits ban it, not Reddit itself.

Same was the case on /kbin, and while Mbin got rid of the downvotes, it still has public upvotes.

Yes, we know which version of content was reported and voted on and have all of that information (for those of you that think you’re being sly by editing your comments…its not sly)

Sounds like they have the full edit history, not just a single backup.

I’m an Mbin user.

Mbin is a fork of kbin. Kbin’s dev didn’t really trust people much, so he wanted to have sole control over what code gets added to kbin. Which led to issues when he wasn’t available and development just came to a halt for months because no one could accept changes anymore. The other devs wanted more control so they could actually get shit done, so they decided to fork the project instead.

How different is it from Lemmy? I hear they have better integration with Mastodon.

I think the biggest difference is really the fact that you can subscribe to not just communities but also users. This is where the superior Mastodon compatibility comes into play by allowing us to see posts that don’t mention communities. Lemmy only sees Mastodon posts if they mention a community explicitly or an Mbin user has interacted with it.

There’s also other stuff like public upvotes, boosting, tags, reputation (karma), and custom community CSS. I don’t really know Lemmy well enough to give a full list of where they differ.

Matrix definitely is federated.

You ran into the trap of taking “fediverse” at face value. It neither invented nor monopolizes federation. E-Mail is federated and has nothing to do with the fediverse. Wikipedia’s page on federation lists the very internet itself as the prime example.

Not implementing ActivityPub doesn’t mean Matrix isn’t federated.

They’re referring to hate speech.

They’re not technically wrong, it is censorship and illegal speech to outlaw hate speech. But it takes malicious selfishness and a lack of empathy to actually take issue with it imo.

I’d argue the fediverse is probably not the ideal place for a privacy focused audience. There is no privacy here, only illusions of it. I can easily see who upvoted this post for example.

In other western countries, the state asks for taxes so it can use them to provide services to its citizen. In my country, states actually lower taxes when they’ve had too much net income in a year. Because why ask for so much money if you don’t actually need it.

In the US, it sounds like taxes are seen as a tribute to the ruling elite, with anything given back to the people seen as evil and undeserved.

Reddit didn’t remove it, the moderators did. On Shreddit, there’s a note:

Sorry, this post has been removed by the moderators of r/YouShouldKnow.

It’s still available on your profile, I can still see it there. So clearly Reddit didn’t do shit.

Edit: While I’m looking at shreddit, looking at the rules in the sidebar, I think it was removed due to rule 3:

YSKs regarding Reddit, Facebook, Twitter or any other social media are NOT ALLOWED.

You should always look at a community’s rules first before posting, imo this removal is justified.