This is an opportunity with creative landscaping.

I find the mistakes it makes and trouble shooting them really good for learning. I’m self taught.

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I concur, that’s one for the back pocket!

Most websites track IP addresses, keep them in a database, and use them for various things. You can find a lot of information on this online, however in the case of non-profit social media like Mastodon, it can be useful for tracking bad actors and blocking them from access. Most of the time they are used for commercial purposes.

In the teeth!!

You are free to make your own instance to do so. You can run it on an old cell phone or your home computer.

The federated video platform. If Lemmy is Reddit, Peertube is YouTube.

Peertube. ;)

There’s been discussions about Tumblr getting on ActivityPub which would be interesting.