There are other Firefish instances, though, in case one wants to use Firefish and also federate with mastodon.art.

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There’s Antennas, although they may not be exactly what you’re looking for since they’re in a separate location from your main feed.

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I’m personally a bit upset because, as a user on firefish.social, I am getting punished for doing nothing wrong. Now I won’t be able to interact with mastodon.art users, for what? I spent a bit of time digging, and the evidence this is all based on is weak at best. A person trolled (not even clearly in a racist way, sorry), and the Firefish dev/firefish.social admin happened to boost a news article posted by the once-troll, and now all the rest of the users of the Firefish instance are defederated? What kind of logic is that? It absolutely is offensive.

Plus, how she went about it is just wrong. Rather than reaching out to the Firefish dev, she publicly shames him and announces the defederation. The result was so much drama.

Look, sure, the .art admin can run their instance how they want, and they’re absolutely free to go about that in a way that offends people, but don’t tell me I can’t or shouldn’t be offended.

I’ve read several people complain over the last year or so that Google’s results have been getting worse and they add site:reddit.com or similar to improve the results. I use a search engine called Kagi that includes a “lens” to see forum results only which is neat. I wonder if this is Google’s attempted answer.

Google has a bad reputation for killing its own products, to be sure. This is a part of Search, though, so I think less likely to die. If the results are terrible, and users don’t click on them, I bet you are right!