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By the way, forgot to mention this:
There are already Mastodon servers whose rules explicitly forbid common users policing others. Only a) the actual server rules must be enforced, b) only by actual server personnel and c) only against users on the same server.
This means if you are not a moderator, and/or if you police a rule or "rule" that is not part of the server rules, and/or if you police someone from another server, you may be sanctioned for it.
I dare say the very existence of this rule says a lot, even though it isn't nearly as widespread as I wish it was.
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1) what are the cultures of the other parts of the Fediverse and how they differ from Mastodon's in these critical aspects, if they do

I don't know them all because I haven't actually used that much Fediverse software, and I don't actively follow that many non-Mastodon, non-Friendica/Hubzilla/(streams)/Forte users.
Hubzilla's culture is derived from Friendica's, so it's very similar, only that Hubzilla's culture is influenced by having the Fediverse's absolute jack-of-all-trades at hand with even more optional features than Friendica. Also, even more than Friendica, and very much unlike Mastodon, Hubzilla is all about self-empowerment and self-moderation thanks to its very powerful and fine-grained permissions system.
(streams)' and Forte's culture is sitting somewhere between Friendica's and Hubzilla's culture. These two aren't nearly as much about connecting with everyone and everything as even Hubzilla because they're limited in the protocols they support.
The non-Mastodon *blogging Fediverse is generally a lot more relaxed and a whole lot friendlier towards the greater Fediverse than Mastodon on average. Almost everyone on Mastodon has only ever been on Mastodon. Maybe a few have got a Pixelfed account as well. But for the majority of Mastodon users, the Fediverse equals Mastodon.
The huge majority of the rest believes that Eugen Rochko has invented the Fediverse as a Mastodon network, and that Mastodon is the best, the be-all, end-all decentralised social anything. They don't want to know about the non-Mastodon Fediverse. They want their Mastodon-only Fediverse back. And they're eager to protect Mastodon and its culture against all those evil intruders.
But if you look at the *omas and *keys and all that, there's hardly anyone who got there directly from Twitter (except for East Asian Misskey users). And there's nobody who genuinely believes that the Fediverse only consists of the software they use. At least in the western world, just about everyone in the non-Mastodon Fediverse has been on Mastodon before (except for Friendica and its descendants where people generally came from either Facebook or nothing, optionally via Google+).
Also, for one, the *keys indicate which Fediverse server software a note came from. You'll learn a lot about the Fediverse only from this feature ("What the hell is Smithereen"). Besides, it isn't too atypical for people on an *oma or *key to have been through a whole slew of Fediverse server applications before they've found their new home, or they actually still have semi-active spare accounts elsewhere.
I think it's only natural that these users are not defensive of Mastodon, nor do they think Mastodon is the pinnacle of Fediverse development. Maybe some did believe that. But once they really started daily-driving Akkoma or Firefish or whatever, they were enlightened. They saw just how much more their new home offered them than Mastodon, things they previously couldn't even imagine being possible in the Fediverse.
So instead, these people are rather defensive of the non-Mastodon Fediverse. I know quite a few in places like Akkoma or Sharkey who are eager to explain to Mastodon users that the Fediverse is far from being only Mastodon.
Lemmy is a special case. I guess it's a common faulty assumption amongst Mastodon users who have heard about Lemmy that the typical way into Lemmy is Twitter > Mastodon > "I need groups" > Lemmy. In reality, almost everyone on Lemmy came directly from Reddit, particularly when Reddit enshittified itself by charging third-party app developers $20,000,000 for API access.
They were not, however, discontent with Reddit's culture. So while Mastodon's culture is an idealised version of Twitter's old culture, Lemmy's culture pretty much is Reddit's culture. Not an idealised version, but the real deal itself. It's only tainted by having two tankies, one Maoist, one Stalinist, as main devs, by several major servers being very tankie themselves and lastly by the side-effects of decentralisation in the shape of kerfuffles between servers.
It's important to know at this point that Lemmy used to have an opt-in model for federation between servers: If you, as a server admin, wanted your server to federate with another server, you had to manually add that server, and that server had to add yours. These days are long gone, but the side-effects still linger. Lemmy admins have even less of a problem with blocking other servers than Mastodon admins.
Lemmy users are even less used to getting into contact with folks from outside than Mastodon users. Things that are commonplace or even absolute necessities on Mastodon irritate them: more than one mention because mentions aren't needed on Lemmy to get your messages across and hashtags in general because neither Reddit nor Lemmy has them.
While Lemmy does have a kind of overarching culture, each Lemmy community has its own culture, just like every subreddit has its own culture. Some are nice and friendly and have rules to protect it. Some exist for the very purpose of shitposting (I've inspired the creation of one of these, it's for Fediverse memes: ). Some are outright NSFW and flagged as such. And so forth.
There may be Lemmy communities that ask their users to add alt-texts to their images, a feature which Lemmy hasn't had for that long. But Lemmy doesn't have any CW culture anywhere. In fact, Lemmy doesn't have any CW support whatsoever, neither for the Mastodon method of putting CWs into the summary field nor for the Friendica/Hubzilla/(streams)/Forte method of having them automatically generated by a keyword filter on the reader's side. Lemmy isn't really for the faint of heart and the Twitter or Tumblr convert, for neither is Reddit.
Another difference between Mastodon and Lemmy: It's common for Mastodon users to try to enforce Mastodon's culture and Mastodon's unwritten rules upon literally everyone in the Fediverse and to make this culture and these rules mandatory on every last Fediverse server. Lemmy users, in stark contrast, know that such an endeavour would never even make it into the next community on the same server.
2) when you have seen a clash between broader Fedi rules and Mastodon culture. I've seen this fight play out a lot and it's always on Mastodon, I've never seen the rest of Fedi come up outside this hypothetical.

There aren't any broader Fedi rules that apply in the whole Fediverse. The Fediverse is too diverse in technology and in culture. At least half of the diversity in culture accounts for the different Lemmy and PieFed communities and Mbin magazines. And places like Hubzilla, (streams) or Forte are about as impenetrable for external culture or external rules as your average shitposting community on Lemmy, just for different reasons.
But I'll give you some specific examples.
(used to be on Calckey until his home server switched to Sharkey there's hardly any *key he hasn't tried) could tell you a lot of stories. For example, he was once attacked by a Mastodon user and told to either limit all his posts to no more than 500 characters or get the fuck out of the Fediverse.
They could have muted him. They could have blocked him. But no, they demanded that culture-less, barbarian, evil intruder leave the Mastodon Fediverse entirely, the Fediverse which Eugen Rochko has created as a purist, 500-characters-only microblogging network.
By the way, vice-versa, (mainly on Akkoma, but with lots of accounts elsewhere) and (has probably been on Friendica since before Mastodon was even made) both block users who chop long posts up into snippets of no more than 500 characters. Unfortunately, nobody on Mastodon notices.
Maybe this story is interesting, too: (Friendica) once came across a user who wondered how he could possibly post more than 500 characters at once on Mastodon. He told her that he is not on Mastodon, but on Friendica which doesn't really have a character limit.
She promptly blocked him. Why She thought he's an evil black-hat hacker who used an evil black-hat hacker tool named Friendica to illegally hack himself into the Mastodon-only Mastodon Fediverse to harass her.
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LE JOUR O LON MEURT (Roudaki)

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Still, forcing Mastodon's culture and Mastodon's unwritten rules upon literally everyone in the Fediverse is bad.
Maybe you haven't heard about this yet, but: The Fediverse is not only Mastodon. It has never been only Mastodon. It didn't even start with Mastodon. And it doesn't entirely work like Mastodon either.
For starters, this means that just because you see it on Mastodon, it didn't necessarily originate on Mastodon.
There are places in the Fediverse that are vastly older than Mastodon, and that are very different from Mastodon. Thus, they have their own culture, based on their own technology and their own features and where their users came from, and largely without any influences from Mastodon.
The oldest still existing server software in the Fediverse is not Mastodon from 2016. It's Friendica (, , ). Friendica is essentially a mixture of a Facebook alternative and fully-featured long-form blogging. No Twitter or Mastodon influence anywhere. And Friendica first came out in May, 2010, five years and eight months before Mastodon.
Friendica did not intrude into the Mastodon Fediverse that was created by Eugen Rochko as a Mastodon-only network. Mastodon was born into an already existing Fediverse that consisted of at least Friendica, Hubzilla (, , ) and GNU social ( now defunct).
Here's how Friendica differs from Mastodon in ways that may disturb Mastodon hardliners:

Of course, from a Mastodon point of view, it's both tempting and fully justified to tell the Friendica users that this is the Mastodon Fediverse, and that they will have to adapt the Mastodon culture and abolish their own culture or be thrown out. But for one, Mastodon's culture doesn't fit Friendica's technology.
Besides, that'd literally be like European settlers holding Native Americans at gunpoint and forcing them to give up their own culture, adopt European culture and convert to Catholic Christianity or else. The only difference is that European settlers, unlike the Mastodon users, did not think that they were there first, and that everyone else is an intruder.
I mean, sure, go ahead and attack anyone who doesn't strictly live by Mastodon's culture and Mastodon's rules if you think you have to. But prepare for a whole lot of defence and even counter-attacks from Pleroma, Akkoma, Misskey, Iceshrimp-JS, Iceshrimp.NET, Sharkey, GoToSocial, Hollo, snac2, Mitra, Socialhome, Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams), Forte and the rest of the non-Mastodon Fediverse.
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The trains that travel the Chunnel are massive machines. The Eurostars are bullet-shaped and a quarter-mile long. They are pulled by a 136,000-pound locomotive and move in the open air at 185 m.P.H. And through the tunnel at 100 m.P.H.
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Let me give you an example. Something that I've actually posted myself.
Here's the image (CW: eye contact):
Here's the alt-text:
Image macro, based on a screen capture from the Disney and Pixar animated film Finding Nemo. At the top, there is a white space with a two-line caption: OSgrid: offline for weeks to come, and Owners of other grids, looking at OSgrid residents:. In the screen capture below, ten seagulls are perched on two mooring lines in the background. An eleventh seagull pokes its head into the image from the bottom right. They all look at the camera. Each one is labelled with the question, Mine

Do you understand the image without explanations
I guarantee you that there are loads of people who don't even understand the template, and that next to nobody out there understands the topic. Not without an explanation.
So here's the explanation in the post text, including a link to the corresponding KnowYourMeme page:

Explanation:


The image macro is based on the "Mine Mine Mine Seagulls" meme template (link CW: eye contact ).
OSgrid () is a 3-D virtual world, based on OpenSimulator ( ), a free, open-source server-side re-implementation of the technology of Second Life ( ). Like Second Life and all other OpenSimulator-based worlds, it is called a "grid" because it is divided into square regions bordering on each other.
Launched in July, 2007, OSgrid was the first public OpenSimulator grid, it is the oldest and one of the biggest by both land area and users. This means that while it's running bleeding-edge developer versions of OpenSimulator, it also carries around a whole lot of old ballast. It is notorious for going offline for maintenance and for this maintenance often lasting for a week or several, and it is just as notorious for going offline with no announcement and either only a very belated explanation by the admins or none at all.
The last prolonged downtime before this one was in 2025. It included OSgrid's entire asset server being wiped clean, and all avatars in OSgrid having their inventories emptied almost completely. It was scheduled, but due to OSgrid's instability at the time, it happened spontaneously and way ahead of schedule. The OSgrid admins could not say for how long OSgrid would be offline, but they estimated the downtime to exceed one month. In addition, for several years before that shutdown, each OSgrid shutdown had led to more and more lost assets already.
This drove many OSgrid residents away from OSgrid and to other OpenSimulator grids. Most of them, OSgrid included, are connected by the so-called Hypergrid which makes it possible for avatars from one grid to teleport to other grids, so it doesn't matter much which grid your avatar is registered on when you want to travel to certain locations or events. Many of those who had left OSgrid when it was offline returned after it went online again because the asset server had been promised to work as intended now.
Still, with OSgrid's track record of unreliability and, most importantly, losing assets, some residents fear that the current downtime might break more than it will fix. Not few think that if they've lost their whole inventories "unannounced" last time, they will lose their whole inventories actually unannounced this time. And so they're looking for a new home again.
Of course, this has the owners and admins of many other grids wishing for as many OSgrid residents as possible to join their grids. The advertising of other grids in the wake of OSgrid's downtime has already begun.

Now, there are people who say that linking to external explanations is ableist crap because that's inconvenient, and because these external websites may not be sufficiently accessible. Oh, and links don't work in alt-text (only that the above link went into the post text where links do work). So if you post something that needs to be explained, explain it yourself.
Sure, but that'll be an explanation of the "Mine Mine Mine Seagulls" meme template. In addition, there will have to be one explanation for Reddit and one for reaction images because people won't understand the template explanation otherwise. On top of that, there will have to be an explanation for image boards, Futaba Channel and 4chan because people won't understand the reaction image explanation otherwise. In fact, I might also have to explain the film Finding Nemo.
For comparison, I've once posted something based on "One Does Not Simply Walk Into Mordor". It was the only time I've explained the whole thing myself. That was one explanation for my image, six for the template, two for the topic (and that was actually Fediverse-related, but still obscure), that's nine altogether. I haven't even explained The Lord of the Rings, the character Boromir and that particular situation. Still, that was 25,000 characters of explanation overall, half of which accounted for the six explanations for the template.
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I'm talking about a wholly separate explanation in the post text body. Like, where you'd write the actual toot. Where you probably only have 500 characters. Where you wrote the above comment. It's there where I want to put the explanation.
The story behind this is as follows:
I keep reading from Mastodon users that alt-texts (yes, actual alt-texts in this case) are useful for sighted people, too, because alt-texts can give them explanations and help them understand what they're looking at. This means that images must not only be described, but also explained if necessary.
On the one hand, I keep telling Mastodon users again and again that explanations do not belong into the alt-text because there are people who can't access and read alt-texts Mastodon users tend to be very defensive of using alt-texts to extend their 500-character limit by another 1,500 characters per image.
Still, on the other hand, this means that especially Mastodon users want images that they don't understand to come with explanations right away. In particular, neurodivergent people often need explanations, in-depth explanations even. It appears to have gotten to a point where posting an image that needs explanations without explanations is considered just as careless and almost as ableist as posting an image without accurate and sufficiently detailed alt-text.
At the same time, whenever I post an image of any kind, memes included, they're about such obscure topics that they need an explanation. Also, not everyone is always familiar with every meme template, so I have to give an explanation for the meme templates I've used as well. So I always explain whatever might need to be explained.
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Let's assume my character limit is not 500, but practically unlimited. Like, tens of thousands of times higher than on Mastodon.
Let's also assume I don't have a problem with writing a whole lot of text, for while most of the Fediverse is fumbling around on a phone screen, I'm blind-typing on a hardware keyboard.
How would you recommend me to explain meme templates in the post text (in addition to the visual description + text transcripts in the alt-text)

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The Collapse of Long-Term Capital Management (1998) (Part 7) - Binance

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It's kind of fascinating that the very first software to implement ActivityPub was Hubzilla, originally created by (that's where you can find him now, by the way).
It already had a kind of precursor of FEP-171b "Conversation Containers" implemented, so it has never even needed any backfilling. At the same time, its ActivityPub implementation was more by-the-book than Mastodon's two months later (as by-the-book as you can implement ActivityPub anyway).
I guess the big issue is the dichotomy between purist Twitter-style microblogging where enclosed conversations are superfluous luxury that just makes things unnecessarily complicated and Facebook-like or Reddit-like stuff where enclosed conversations are essential. On top of this, not many know that the Fediverse has the latter in the first place. It's bad enough for (streams) and Forte admins now having the option to lock the former out entirely in one fell swoop.
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One that happened quite early on was Mastodon's hijack of the
summary
field for content warnings which wasn't used for that previously.

And everyone on Mastodon believes that Eugen Rochko has invented this field from scratch as a CW field. It's deeply engrained into Mastodon's culture now. It got to the point at which non-Mastodon users use the summary field as such, and they're attacked by Mastodon users for allegedly misusing the CW field.
Worse yet: Friendica has had a much more elegant way of handling content warnings since its inception, about seven years before Mastodon introduced the CW field: Have them created by a keyword filter on the reader's side. The advantage is that you have your own individual CWs, and other users who don't need these specific CWs don't have them. All its descendants have inherited it. But if you add the appropriate keywords as hashtags, Mastodon users might scold and/or mute/block you for hashtag spam.
Even worse: Mastodon itself has introduced essentially the same functionality with version 4.0 in October, 2022, just shortly before Elon Musk took over Twitter. But this has never entered Mastodon's culture which is mostly built around Mastodon 3.x. Or maybe it's because filters are the one thing where Friendica and its family are much easier to handle than Mastodon. Or it's simply because Mastodon users were promised to be babied and pampered and coddled all over, so they don't want to take care of their own CWs.
Now their "hijacks" are more on the side of centralizing moderation and overall working on features that aim to reduce the social aspect of the network and increase witch hunting. Like the new "follow packs" or whatever they called them which will definitely never turn into "block packs" that will inevitably end up maintained by heavily opinionated people like on BlueSky.

Mastodon already relies heavily on importing or subscribing to automatically generated filter lists. For some admins, the filter lists can't be too extensive. Of course, hardly any admins really curate these lists.
At least the times of absolutely monstrous lists consisting of multiple other monster lists compiled by overzealous snowflakes are over. There used to be a time where it took two or three server admins with lists of their own to have one server blocked on hundreds of servers.
Lemmy only recently figured out how to properly federate posts instead of just sending a post link along with a title to instances not running Lemmy.

I guess the two Lemmy devs have finally understood that they can't develop Lemmy as its own enclosed network anymore, now that a lot of traffic on Lemmy comes from and goes to Mbin and PieFed. They've lost a lot of users to these two, and I guess they know they can't afford to lose the traffic from these users as well.
They still don't really care for compatibility with Mastodon, probably also because of how much Mastodon's culture clashes with Lemmy's. And Friendica and its family just happen to be sufficiently compatible by mere chance, I guess.
Coincidentally looking at I can see that there are approximately 450 running Friendica instances, approx 100 Hubzilla instances, and apparently 2 Forte instances which doesn't seem right. Streams isn't on the list. That list is acquired by crawling through the various peers endpoints on Fedi servers.

For Friendica and Hubzilla, I think it isn't too far off.
(streams) is intentionally kept away from stats sites. Also, its nodeinfo code was intentionally removed almost entirely. This was done to keep (streams) out of that rat race for server popularity and to make it uninteresting for commercial actors that might want to sell it as allegedly their own original creation. Then again, it isn't like (streams) has many servers, much less public servers with open registration. (I'm still waiting for another server to clone my two (streams) channels to.)
Forte has quite a bunch of private, single-user servers, but to my best knowledge, there's only one with open registrations. But while Forte does have nodeinfo implemented again, it's set up to not send any actual numbers. Besides, these tiny Forte servers are quite difficult to crawl, also due to Mastodon users' tendency to block everything that's too disturbingly far off Mastodon in behaviour.
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# # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # About "reply gating": This, or something similar, has been a standard feature at least on Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte from the get-go, i.e. from their respective creation on. Hubzilla has had it since 2012. All three rely heavily on permissions for anything and everything. They can make themselves and each other hide the reply button. When someone wants to comment from Mastodon or something else that doesn't understand these permissions, these three simply reject unpermitted comments before they even reach the inbox.
On Hubzilla, the channel-wide permission to comment also includes a permission to like or dislike something. I can generally allow
to comment on my posts.
In addition, I can turn comments on and off for specific posts. Mind you, if it's a reply, it isn't a post, it's a comment, and I've got no control over it.
On (streams) and Forte, the channel-wide permission to comment is uncoupled from the permission to like or dislike. The channel-wide options are

On top of that, I can generally allow comments only for a certain number of days.
Again, I can turn comments on and off for specific posts. But I can also only allow my contacts to comment on specific posts, and I can define until when comments are allowed on specific posts.
In all three cases, I can even choose to preview technically unpermitted comments and then decide whether I allow or reject them, one by one.
In other words, where I am (I'm commenting from Hubzilla), this not only has been available for longer than Mastodon has even existed, but it's deeply engrained into the culture.
About "quote gating": Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte have all always (in Friendica's case, since 2010) had both actual quotes like on bulletin-board forums (remember the 2000s when forums were all the rage) and Twitter-quote-tweet-style quote-posts (which literally were the only way for them to share content before they adopted Twitter-retweet-style forwarding).
The former obviously only works in comments. Whether or not it's allowed is defined by whether or not comments are allowed.
The latter doesn't have any permission setting, not even on Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte with the most advanced permissions systems in the whole Fediverse. That's because their inventor says that it's technologically impossible to keep people from forwarding or sharing your content in separate posts.
If you disallow actual quote-posts, people can still copy-paste the content of your post into a new post. Unlike when you're actually being quote-posted, you won't even notice unless they mention you. Mind you, while an estimated 60% of all Mastodon users are on iPhones, and another estimated 39% are on Android phones, 100% of all Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte users are on desktop or laptop computers where copy-paste is easy-peasy. It's pretty much impossible to disallow copy-paste, and even if it was, people would resort to screenshots.
You don't want people to quote-post your stuff Then don't make it public. Once it's public, it's out there, and anyone can do with it whatever they please.
Nobody really misses an actual permission for quote-posts. That's also because Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte aren't primarily a home for Twitter refugees. In fact, neither of them can even understand the ruckus about quote-posts on Mastodon, and neither can Friendica users. Hardly any of them have been on Twitter at any point in the 2020s. There's no influence of Twitter culture anywhere to be found.
The typical path into Hubzilla is not Twitter > Musk buys Twitter > Mastodon > Hubzilla. Not even Twitter > Musk buys Twitter > Mastodon > Friendica > Hubzilla. It's Facebook > diaspora* > Friendica > Hubzilla. Or Facebook > Google+ > diaspora* > Friendica > Hubzilla. The typical path into (streams) is the same, but one step further beyond Hubzilla. The typical path into Forte is the same as into (streams), but another step further beyond (streams).
About the iPhone: Whether or not the iPhone is a status symbol depends on where you are.
In the USA, the iPhone is the Levi's jeans of phones. It's the Ford F-150 of phones. The allegedly all-American American phone. Most importantly, it's what everyone has.
Over here in Germany, the iPhone is the higher-class Mercedes-Benz of phones. The iPhone 15 Pro is the 2026 Mercedes-Benz-AMG E 53 of phones. The iPhone 15 Pro Max is the 2026 Mercedes-Benz-AMG S 63 E Performance of phones, slammed suspensions, standing on polished 22" Lexani wheels, muffler cut-outs always open. In American terms, it's the 2026 Cadillac Escalade-V of phones, gold-foiled, with air-ride, standing on gold-plated 26" Bellagio spinnaz. The phone made for peacocking in rap music video clips. It's the Rolex of phones. For women, it's the genuine Prada or Fendi or Louis Vuitton handbag of phones.
Well, and then there's the iPhone 4S with the cracked screen. It's the 1995 Mercedes-Benz E-Class of phones. Old, worn out, four-banger engine, often rusty as hell, may have been stolen at some point, but it's cheap. And most importantly, it's still a Benz, and it's a real Benz as opposed to "Baby Benz" C-Class and smaller. The Benz for those who need a Benz to show their folks how much of a winner they are, but who can't really afford one.
Over here, the Samsung Galaxy S is the VW Golf of phones. The Americans' Ford F-150 of phones. It's what everyone has. It's the no-brainer that you buy when you don't know what to buy, so you buy what everyone buys. Still, it's expensive for what it does. But all the other brands are akin to "cheap imports" from, what, France or Italy or Japan or Korea or Romania.
The choice of the hardcore nerds in the homeland of Chaos Computer Club and Chaos Communication Congress is never something that can only run stock Android. It's an iPhone even less. They rather buy a Google Pixel, and the first thing they do is root it immediately and install GrapheneOS. Or if they refuse to buy something from Google and/or run a Google OS (de-Googled or not), they acquire a Sony Experia, root it and install SailfishOS. Or they go straight for a Fairphone or even the new Jolla Phone or something like that. I'm pretty sure many want a true successor to the Nokia N900.
If Google locks Android down, these nerds won't flock to Apple. Some may switch to SailfishOS which, on officially supported phones, has the Aliendalvik compatibility layer for Android apps, but only with F-Droid and neither with the Google Play Store proper nor with Micro-G. Many more will go entirely elsewhere like PostmarketOS or PureOS, also seeing as SailfishOS is payware that's half proprietary and closed-source. Or they'll forgo mobile phones entirely or keep old phones alive for as long as they can.
About iOS apps: I guess the notion that the Fediverse equals Mastodon, something that the majorty of Mastodon users believe, is particularly wide-spread among iPhone users. And if it isn't only Mastodon, it doesn't extend beyond Mastodon, Pixelfed and PeerTube. Excluding Pixelfed and PeerTube, if Mastodon can't do it, the Fediverse as a whole can't. I mean, on top of the fact that apps made for Mastodon generally only support Mastodon features because the Mastodon Client API only supports Mastodon features, and the Mastodon Client API is all that these apps understand.
It's particularly bad for Friendica users. If they're on Android, they may opt for a Mastodon app. There are several Android apps for Mastodon that have been reported to work with Friendica. Or they may want to try one of the dedicated Friendica apps which are at various levels of unfinished. Or they may choose the middle-ground and use Fedilab.
But if they're on an iPhone, they'll discover that literally not even a single Mastodon iOS app works with Friendica. There is no Fedilab. And the iOS version of RaccoonForFriendica requires Test Flight, and it's probably even more incomplete than the Android version.
In general, iPhone apps are rarely developed for the same reasons as Android apps. Most Android Fediverse apps are open-source and under a free license, and they're also or exclusively available on F-Droid. They're developed by FLOSS enthusiasts/idealists. However, these people don't develop for iOS. That's because the Apple App Store is inherently hostile towards free software, and it's completely incompatible with all versions of the GNU General Public License.
Also, as you've already pointed out, you absolutely need a Mac to develop iOS apps. But if someone releases FLOSS apps on F-Droid, you can bet they're running GNU/Linux at home (more often Arch or a derivative than you may think), and they won't touch any corporate-made, closed-source OS with a 10-foot barge pole. They may even steer clear of anything where Novell, Red Hat or Canonical is involved.
With hobbyist FLOSS enthusiasts out of the way of developing iPhone apps, this is only ever done by those who do it for money. Or fame and social status (same reason why they always have a fairly new iPhone). Or both. But then they discovered that the Fediverse, to them at least, is a hive of radical leftist tech nerds whom you can't impress with expensive bling-bling from big American gigacorps. They failed to gather the umpteen thousand followers they wanted. So they left for greener pastures: Bluesky. Or they even went back to their hundreds of thousands of followers on . Doing so, they also abandoned their iPhone app development.
By the way, none of this affects Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte. For starters, just like Friendica, all four can be installed as Progressive Web Apps. However, at least in the case of these three, there is no alternative to the Web interface whatsoever. There's an old Android app for Hubzilla named Nomad, but it's only available on F-Droid, it hasn't been worked on since December, 2019, it only runs on older Android versions and Aliendalvik, and it's only a wrapper for the Web interface anyway. For (streams) and Forte, there's zilch.
There has been some talk about developing a native mobile Hubzilla app. It's kind of difficult, though. Generally, Hubzilla users use Hubzilla on desktop OS's. They can't imagine people daily-driving phones as their main or only end-user devices, so they think that a Hubzilla app only needs the features one would need when out and about because everyone will go back to their desktop or laptop computers anyway when they're back home.
In reality, many users of the Hubzilla app will only use that app. They won't use Hubzilla's Web interface in a browser. They won't use it on a desktop or laptop computer either, usually because they simply don't have one. They'll resort to that app for everything. In fact, they'll perceive Hubzilla as a phone app rather than a Fediverse server application. This means that a Hubzilla mobile app will inevitably have to cover all of Hubzilla's features except those that really don't make sense in a phone app (e.g. the PDL editor). But a fully-featured Hubzilla app would be so complex, it'd make infamous K-9 Mail pale in comparison.
Licensing is the least problem here. Hubzilla and Forte are released under the MIT license, (streams) was released into the public domain. So I guess putting an app for either of them under the MIT license would be an option, one that's fairly compatible with the Apple App Store even. It's just that this app would be bound to be an absolute monster.
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Koei Tecmo and Team Ninja unveiled the grim soulslike Wo Long 2: Wings of Ember at the Xbox Games Showcase 2026, dark, intense, and atmospheric.

A direct sequel to Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty (the original drew in over 5 million players), it throws you back into the war-torn Three Kingdoms soaked in dark fantasy. You play a lone warrior crossing the burned plains of Ancient China, cleaving grotesque demons and fighting alongside leg...

Announced: Wo Long 2: Wings of Ember from Koei Tecmo and Team Ninja, a hardcore sequel due early 2027.

Dark, brutal fantasy returns: refined parry-heavy Chinese martial arts, blood-soaked battlefields of the Late Han overrun by demonic beasts the original Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty launched in March 2023 and pulled in over 5 million players. Platforms: PC (Steam), PS5, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch 2. INSANE

Wo Long 2: Wings of Ember, the official sequel from Koei Tecmo and Team Ninja, due early 2027.

The studio says they'll expand what worked in Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty (Mar 2023, over 5M players): tight rhythmbased parries, complex Chinese martial arts, blood-soaked Late Han battlefields and famous historical generals. Launches worldwide day-one on PC (Steam), PS5, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch 2. HYPE

Long flights are so much easier when they start like this

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Airbus's A350-1000ULR, built for extreme range, has completed its first test flight, paving the way for non-stop journeys between Sydney and London.

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It Came from the Long Beach Comic & Horror Con 2013

My lack of a plan for this year's con made the show floor less satisfying, but the panels were great: Marv Wolfman, Scott Lobdell, Mark Waid, Young Justice. Weil du geschrieben hast, da du gern Feedback zu deinen Alt-Texten httest:
Hier gibt's ein paar Dinge zu kritisieren. Erstens solltest du die Stze jeweils mit einem Punkt beenden, damit der Screenreader beim Vorlesen die Stimme senkt. Ohne Punkt am Ende geht ein Screenreader davon aus, da der Satz weitergeht, auch bei Zeilenumbrchen. Generell solltest du das immer tun, damit Screenreader nicht irritiert sind.
Zweitens solltest du Zeilenumbrche in Alt-Texten vermeiden. Ja, es sieht fr Sehende schicker aus. Aber die eigentliche Zielgruppe fr Alt-Texte sind Blinde oder Sehbehinderte, die sich den Alt-Text von einem Screenreader vorlesen lassen. Screenreader sagen jedes Mal, wenn sie ein Bild mit oder ohne Alt-Text finden, etwas wie "Grafik". Sie erkennen aber jeden Absatz in einem Alt-Text als eigenen Alt-Text und sagen daher, "Grafik", am Anfang von jedem Absatz.
Drittens: Foto-Credits gehren in den Post-Text, genau wie alle anderen Informationen, die nicht aus dem Post-Text oder aus dem Bild ersichtlich sind. Wenn du sie unbedingt brauchst, aber nur 500 Zeichen hast, dann mut du dafr eben im Post-Text Platz schaffen.
Den Alt-Text in diesem Post liest ein Screenreader aktuell so vor:
"Grafik. Eine Dame mit dem Kopf gesenkt, stehend an einer Treppe, von oben fotografiert Grafik. Sie trgt ein hellblau-wei gestreiftes Hemdblusenkleid Grafik. Es ist an der Hfte enger und dann leicht ballonartig drapiert Grafik. Foto von Bershka", und dann macht er mit den nchsten Wrtern oder so weiter, als wre der Satz nicht zu Ende.
Mit Punkten an den Enden der Stze wrde daraus schon mal:
"Grafik. Eine Dame mit dem Kopf gesenkt, stehend an einer Treppe, von oben fotografiert. Grafik. Sie trgt ein hellblau-wei gestreiftes Hemdblusenkleid. Grafik. Es ist an der Hfte enger und dann leicht ballonartig drapiert. Grafik. Foto von Bershka."
Wenn du dann auch noch die Zeilenumbrche weglt, sieht der Screenreader keine vier Bilder mehr, sondern nur noch die drei, die wirklich da sind:
"Grafik. Eine Dame mit dem Kopf gesenkt, stehend an einer Treppe, von oben fotografiert. Sie trgt ein hellblau-wei gestreiftes Hemdblusenkleid. Es ist an der Hfte enger und dann leicht ballonartig drapiert. Foto von Bershka."
Last but not least, wie gesagt: Das "Foto von Bershka" gehrt in den Post-Text.
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In diesem Fall solltest du auf jeden Fall zwei Dinge tun. Zum einen solltest du die Stze jeweils mit einem Punkt beenden, damit der Screenreader beim Vorlesen die Stimme senkt. Ohne Punkt am Ende geht ein Screenreader davon aus, da der Satz weitergeht, sogar bei Zeilenumbrchen. Generell solltest du das immer tun, damit Screenreader nicht irritiert sind.
Zum anderen solltest du Zeilenumbrche in Alt-Texten vermeiden. Ja, es sieht fr Sehende schicker aus. Aber die eigentliche Zielgruppe fr Alt-Texte sind Blinde oder Sehbehinderte, die sich den Alt-Text von einem Screenreader vorlesen lassen. Screenreader sagen jedes Mal, wenn sie ein Bild mit oder ohne Alt-Text finden, etwas wie "Grafik". Sie erkennen aber jeden Absatz in einem Alt-Text als eigenen Alt-Text und sagen daher, "Grafik", am Anfang von jedem Absatz.
Die Alt-Texte in diesem Post liest ein Screenreader aktuell so vor:
"Grafik. Eine weie Popelinhose Grafik. Eine weie ballonartige voluminse Hose mit Gummizug oben und unten Grafik. Beigefarbene Keilabsatz Schuhe Grafik. Jeansjacke, eng mit schrger Knopfleiste in dunklem Denim", und dann macht er mit den nchsten Wrtern oder so weiter, als wre der Satz nicht zu Ende.
Mit Punkten an den Enden der Stze wrde daraus schon mal:
"Grafik. Eine weie Popelinhose. Grafik. Eine weie ballonartige voluminse Hose mit Gummizug oben und unten. Grafik. Beigefarbene Keilabsatz Schuhe. Grafik. Jeansjacke, eng mit schrger Knopfleiste in dunklem Denim."
Wenn du dann auch noch den Zeilenumbruch im ersten Alt-Text weglt, sieht der Screenreader keine vier Bilder mehr, sondern nur noch die drei, die wirklich da sind:
"Grafik. Eine weie Popelinhose. Eine weie ballonartige voluminse Hose mit Gummizug oben und unten. Grafik. Beigefarbene Keilabsatz Schuhe. Grafik. Jeansjacke, eng mit schrger Knopfleiste in dunklem Denim."
Zustzlich empfehle ich, das doppelte, redundante "Eine weie" im ersten Bild zu vermeiden. Im zweiten Bild sollte zwischen "Keilabsatz" und "Schuhe" ein Bindestrich, um zu verhindern, da irgendwelche Screenreader das komisch vorlesen, z. B. dazwischen die Stimme senken ("Beige Keilabsatz, Schuhe.")
Man knnte das Ganze sicherlich noch weiter ausbauen und verfeinern. Aber das hier sind zumindest die Basics.
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