ZombieMantis

Y-Tube might've earned them a few cease-and-desists from Google

Nah.

Can we stop crowning random socially-stunted weirdos with enormous earth shattering powers, please?

Well, that's a little unfortunate, then. Here's to hoping it does eventually get there 🤞 I'm just happy to see the decentralized, non-profit internet grow.

From the Wikipedia page on the project, there's a quote from this Twitter thread from 2019, where he says he's potentially interested in adding native support. Hopefully that comes at some point, I'd be happy to try it out if it does.

By defragging the zebra, duh

Well, it's certainly better than Instagram... Who knows, maybe Cara could federate with ActivityPub in the future... Not that I'll keep my hopes up for that.

Yes, but probably only about as much as every other garbage social media trashsite like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc.

Credit to the Picard Maneuver

Illness, death, and antisocial behavior. All of these were threats we evolved to handle, people who are "a little bit off" in one way or another, who might endanger the group or individual. This, and that our pattern seeking brains don't like it when something doesn't easily fit within an existing schema, even more so if it lies just outside of our existing preconceptions.

Obviously, I can't say that these definitely are the reasons why we experience the uncanny valley, but I think it's probably a better explanation than... Skin walkers? Or whatever else the meme would be implying.

Still, it's a cool premise for a horror story at least.

A nice first step. Here's hoping they make a Mastodon account next.

Evidently, yes.