Does Fediverse even have what your friends want from a social media? Even the answer is yes, share that content with them and hope they will be intrigued. Unfortunately, the most likely is no in this case. Fediverse is only good for like five topics and everything else is “too niche”.

It would change if we had more people on here but the problem is, Fediverse just isn’t appealing to most people. They don’t care about decentralization and open-source. What they do care about though is algorithms and low barrier to entry - and neither need is fulfilled by the Fedi.

We are truly the Linux of social media haha.

True I just wanted to mention these fascinating creatures because they are the closest we have to revival from death.

they can reproduce (they expel gas clouds on death that can eventually create new stars)

I wouldn’t consider being eaten by a pregnant predator who then gives birth to be a form of reproduction even if I supplied resources to the born creature.

they can grow and change size over their lifespan

So can oceans but I don’t think it should count as growing.

I’m not aware of anything already considered living that will die and reanimate.

Tardigrades? They can cease any metabolic activity and then wake up years later as if nothing happened.

From the photo alone, the octopus appeared to belong to the genus Thaumelodone, a variety of small, squat octopus found in the deep waters of the southern hemisphere.

At first, there was evidence that the animal was indeed part of the Thaumelodone genus. It had a zigzag pattern of suckers on its arms, which is a distinctly Thaumelodone feature. It also had no ink sac—consistent with a Thaumelodone, since in the darkness of the deep ocean, predators can’t see their prey anyway, so a defensive cloud of ink serves no protective function.

But there were multiple differences too. First there was the funnel organ. Octopuses can move at high speed by sucking water into an interior funnel and squirting it out like air escaping from a balloon. Inside the funnel of a Thaumelodone octopus is a small saliva gland, but in this case the gland was comparatively huge, wrapping its way around the entire interior of the funnel.

Then there was the texture. Thaumelodone octopuses are covered with small bumps, or papillae, but the little blue octopus was smooth. There was, too, the matter of the animal’s teeth—or tooth. Thaumelodone typically have seven teeth, but the specimen had just one large one. Finally came the color. The typical Thaumelodone is a shade of maroon. This one—while appearing blue under the light of an underwater camera—was actually white or even clear on top and purple on the bottom.

The verdict: the “blue” octopus did not fit at all in the Thaumelodone group, but rather in the Microeledone, a related deep-water genus—and it was reclassified accordingly.

Reminds me of the emojis I made when I was learning LibreSprite.

Yours are much better though!