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For now that was just a bot mirroring posts. I don't think they've said whether they'll use that going forward.

Plenty of people still know or use the other meanings, and it's still based on common stereotypes. Reclaiming slurs only really works when it's done by the targeted group, and when the word is being used with positive connotations.

It was a term for modded crappy japanese motorcycles and cars, that derived from a slur for asian people.

A lot of people like to think that everything will work out okay. It's easier to think everything will be fine than to focus on the terrible things that are happening.

Then on the other side you have people that know things are bad, but give up because they don't know how to fix things.

I think eventually we'll make it through this, but you can't just be passively hopeful.

Things are bad and will get worse. But tons of people are actively working together to prevent as much damage as possible, supporting each other, and working towards a better world. As things get worse, more people will try to find ways to help each other.

We need spiteful hope and stubborn optimism. There are always ways to make things better, no matter how bad they get.

I'm pretty sure .art is run alone by Dan who also runs .social. I don't think he built up a mod team yet so it's probably mostly ignored for now.

They've done federation on a few test posts, but it's definitely not there yet for normal users to use.

I'm not sure about a bridge, but there's some services like friendica and hubzilla that can speak both protocols.

This is anonymous blog that's been out for a couple weeks, and still hasn't been verified by anyone else. It's possible it's real, but I would be very skeptical. The only 'proof' they give is links to ai documentation using trump as an example.

Liberapay is centralized but it is open source.

There's hundreds of other contributers, but he started them all and did the bulk of the work. The plan is to have more regular developers if they get enough donations.

Some more open source search engines are stract.com that allows custom filters like searching only the fediverse or only academic sources, clew.se that focuses on independent creators and lowers the ranking based on ads and bandwidth requirements, and searxng that compiles results from other search engines.

That repo doesn't seem to list a license yet, so more like source available. They might have just not decided how they want to license it yet, so I'm at least mildly hopeful.