But you’re not saying it’s just “precursors” - it sounded like you were saying the fediverse will never become mainstream. Never is a long time, I would say.

Propaganda is definitely not on the list of planned features, haha :)

Appreciate the sentiment, I hope it will one day be worthy of donations :)

Don’t want to shout too much about this yet as it’s still super early but I am actually working on a new fediverse app that I plan should be covering the same sort of use cases as Lemmy, Mastodon and Friendica, all in one application. With a big focus on user friendliness, easy onboarding and such.

It’s still super early but drop me a private message if you’re interested in helping or just hearing more.

I don’t think that’s true. That’s just defeatism talking.

This depends on the settings of the other instance. Some instances copy images, others don’t.

Obscurity is not security, so you could argue that you should just open source it anyway. Any security holes present are also there right now - the fact that the source code is not available is irrelevant.

But if you insist, it may help if you say what programming language is used.