I’m thinking about self-hosting an instance, but I’m not clear if these bigger instances would block me because I’m some little unknown server. Would they have to manually give me access to interact (federate?) with them if I self-host? Or would I automatically be able to post on their server?
I had never heard of this and I was really confused how I got a kbin app on my phone. When I got home and tried to “install the app” on my tablet I couldn’t figure out how to install it. I searched on the Play Store and couldn’t find it. I double checked the app information on my phone’s icon and it said “Installed from the Google Play Store”, so I was really confused.
He talks out of both sides of his mouth. On the one hand the third party apps are costing them a lot of money. On the other hand, he says that only 3% of users use third party apps. Is that 3% of users the only thing keep them from being profitable?