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.

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…

Yeah, that’s why I’m here. Ironic that the current status is that the site is down but 3rd party apps work…

Site seems to be back up now.

I can open r/ukraine on RIF. 3rd party apps still work.

RIF still works lol.