I hope your bow skills are enough to kill their armed bodyguards first.

Pro tip: you can use Google’s Verbatim mode to get exactly what you want.

True, but I still have occasional wet dreams about the future Enterprise D. It was amazing in a bellic kind of way.

They didn’t seem terribly useful, compared to other long projects.

• Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
• Guide reproduction wisely – improving fitness and diversity.
• Unite humanity with a living new language.
• Rule passion – faith – tradition – and all things with tempered reason.
• Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
• Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
• Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
• Balance personal rights with social duties.
• Prize truth – beauty – love – seeking harmony with the infinite.
• Be not a cancer on the Earth – Leave room for nature – Leave room for nature.

Basically, a freethinker version of the Ten Commandments tablets.

Also, Meta/Facebook tweaking the codebase is not necessary a bad thing. While being mostly evil, it has made significant contributions to open source, maybe wait and see will allow us to copy good ideas… before defederating them, because sooner or later they will get defederated.

I don’t see them as a good Fediverse player, but preemptive defederation, before they even start to show their colors, seems like almost unfair.

I see Zuckerberg trying to capture the Fediverse as a good thing, but only because it will test how resilient it is, and expose any weak spots the community can fix.

Bad actors are inevitable in a federated network, and they’re supposed to become increasingly ostracized if they keep at it. Let’s see how resilient the Fediverse is against a thirsty bad actor with a deep wallet.

I haven’t tested Android apps, but I have the impression there are more choices than on iOS. I’d install them all, try them for a week, and pick a winner based on features and development speed.

Development speed is important because there’s many missing features in all of them because they’re very new.

I’ve been in several apps’s TestFlight for a couple of weeks. The author of Memmy has so much energy to work on their app, I think it’s the most likely to reach production soon. Mlem is a close second, with a closer feel to Apolo, the others (Thunder and Liftoff!) are still alpha quality for now.