@MHLoppy Here come the thought police...

@MicroWave America should forget about Donald Trump. The fascist pig...

@MHLoppy I can't believe we are doing this all over again. I thought we were done with the "red scare" generations ago.

@nutomic This is a cool idea! But I have a lot of questions about how the heck you make a think like Wikipedia work in a federated way. Are articles duplicated on each instance, or do we lose some of them when an instance goes down? How does moderation work? How do I search it?

Also, I see someone else posting screenshots, but the link you posted takes me out of my Mastodon app to a Lemmy page where I don't see any links to Ibis itself.

(Saw some criticism of the name there. Ibis is an awesome & appropriate name, IMO.)

@federico3 @ajsadauskas I snorted. Then my frown turned right-side up again when I thought about my neighnor across the street doing his "tough guy" pose with an AK in the front yard. No, I'm not making this up.

@LonelinessCorps

I'll add here something I just mentioned in the non-public thread leading up to this:

Safety and security are going to be paramount for something like this. So if folks have suggestions on possible ways to ensure that, please share! The last thing I'd want to do is create something that isn't safe to use.

@nutomic Looks like you already addressed the federation questions elsewhere in the conversation.

@LonelinessCorps Also, in case it's not clear: This is not focused on dating, but simply finding friends.

Probably why I never even tried to get into it. I can't suspend disbelief to that level.