I wonder if the devRant devs have ever considered implementing ActivityPub and opening this site up to the Fediverse, in the same way Minds (🧠) or Threads (🤢) did.

It would make this a less isolated corner of the Internet for sure.

Whenever I scroll through Instagram and a threads ad comes up, it’s all porn bots. Same caption and everything.

They’ve gotten real wild and have started showing nudity. I reported them for nudity. Got the answer back “this doesn’t violate our guidelines on nudity”

Of course the same fuckwit that runs Facebook would also make the worst Twitter clone

I think devrant benefits from the economies of the smolnet. It's cheap to run and will probably remain cheap forever, it lacks moderation, the content is never presented inline on another website and rarely linked so the cultural norms of other sites don't apply. In particular, I think activitypub, AT and other protocols that encourage taking posts out of the context of the in-group don't benefit old forums that have a culture of their own.

An ActivityPub app will always have the shared culture of Mastodon to some extent limiting its own. Unless it doesn't federate with anyone, but then what's the point.

I for one like the isolation

The isolation is fine imo. We dont need a leakage of dense Medium yappers