Auto/allo come from the ancient Greek words for self/other. It’s one of those pairs like cis/trans, hypo/hyper, in/ex, etc.

It’s still accessible but new comments/votes won’t go through properly anymore

Sounds a lot like how Lemmy communities show up on Mastodon. Maybe one day we can have the reverse as well (Mastodon groups showing up as communities)

It’s funny how you can often tell a comment came from Mastodon because the way people type is just different somehow

If you as user block an instance that doesn’t really solve the problem, Threads is still federated and getting your stuff, it’s just hidden from you

Is it more rational than only federating once they’ve proven that it’ll be fine? (instead of waiting for them to prove they’re not)

This is awesome! Hopefully it’ll help spread the load among instances. Definitely going to use this to see which instance to move to (and which to avoid)

Ironically, the trouble you’re having with subscribing is because you’re on Kbin. On Lemmy you can just click the links in the post

Can you give an example outside American politics?

Maybe an interesting question: how does this compare to the diversity of admins? I guess doing an actual survey is bad for your anonimity, but some idea could be cool

Even on mobile I always just used the desktop version of (old) Reddit. I just love seeing the fediverse prosper.