Why does anyone choose Telegram or WhatsApp over Signal which is encrypted and audited? (Probably features I don’t care about, but they do)

…and the things which aren’t are foundational elements of the republican party’s platform.

I do know that if you attempted this right now, all of the instances would need to access the same database somewhere which would retain a bottleneck.

Switching to a different distributed (eventually-consistent) database may be possible for Lemmy as a software but perhaps not possible (or difficult) for ActivityPub. I don’t know that.