As long as you don't make your title incomprehensible to anyone who isn't a native English speaker

Demon core but somehow even cooler (and cancer-inducing)

we allowed 196 to be here

These aren't mods talking, it's admins. They manage and pay for the server 196 is hosted on, that's a pretty big endeavor

That and "this is worthless, they only tested 10 000 people" are the worst

Anyone can host a server that'll talk to the others seamlessly (like Lemmy), but it doesn't talk to Lemmy

for (i=0; true; i++)

Last time I saw it, someone said it was fake. Here's a source I found for that: some guy made it up for his self-help book

Key point: they get money for implementing features, not fixing bugs, so I think for now they're surviving off donations

Why Tildes and not just another instance? Tildes is still headed by a single person

None of this has anything to do with Mastodon's source code though, I don't know why you keep bringing up open source

there are reasons why people are or are trying to immigrate here in droves

If you compare yourself to third-world countries you always come out looking good. "America Bad" can definitely get circlejerky though, no denying that

"Signups: no" can also just mean that your sign-up will be checked manually, like on older instances like beehaw and sopuli