Does it cause issues if domain and tld match?

For people who previously used SMS and had their contacts saved in the phone’s pre-installed contact app, WhatsApp could use all those contacts out of the box.

If per-user instance filters are implemented, perhaps instances could have “default blacklists” for new users for stuff like exploding-heads or lemmygrad that most people don’t want to see, with the option to manually un-block them if someone does want to see that.

Brilliant Pebbles. A space-based ICBM interceptor program from the 80s.

The one part of Reagan’s Star Wars that would totally have worked if they’d deployed it, but the Soviet Union didn’t last long enough…

Lemmygrad is blocked from federating with most other instances but still is a pretty large instance. Though that instance in particular is not very likely to look towards IPO.

It could happen if there was a very popular instance that didn’t federate with others.

Because lemmygrad is pretty huge and other instances don’t want their new users to be met with a flood of tankie content, most instances are blocking lemmygrad.

I don’t have a script to automatically subscribe to a list of communities on a new account yet, that’s a bit more difficult…