This is literally perpetuated by schoolyard bullying. Anyone over the age of 20 will very likely be entirely out of touch with how big a deal green/blue is for pre-teens and teens these days. It’s pretty much a cornerstone in teen social structures.

Wut? I’m in Europe and I’ve never had WhatsApp in my life.

There’s a nightmare scenario if I ever heard one.

I swear all these memes are generated by Trump’s own people.

Yeah can I get adblock on iPhone with Firefox?

Absolutely right - Signing up needs to be as easy as signing up for reddit. And same with searching for and subscribing to communities, even on other instances. Your average user wants the technical details of the Fediverse abstracted away from them. Anything beyond that and adoption won’t be what we (most of us?) would like it to be.

Is it actually thriving? I haven’t downloaded it or made an account to check so I wouldn’t know, but I would’ve thought I’d have seen the content referenced from other places if this was the case… So far I think I’ve seen one Thread screenshotted and linked and it was Zuck’s demo one or something…

What’s wrong with «wefwef»? Genuine question I guess 😂

And what will people post on lemmy about?