I’ve been using Linux half my life, I have my own Email server, I avoid centralized social media and I hate Outlook with a passion.
I have two active accounts there.
Not ideologically pure.
I’ve been using Linux half my life, I have my own Email server, I avoid centralized social media and I hate Outlook with a passion.
I have two active accounts there.
If I recall correctly it just doesn’t scale well, and starts performing poorly as the user count goes up.
Personally I prefer Mastodon. In the end there’s only three dimensions: Security, performance, and personal preference.
I’m happy with how Mastodon is being run. Move fast and break things kan kiss my ass. Move slowly and don’t suck.
But at the receiving end you’ll have a talented backend developer who has created something impressive, and who instead of being recognised and motivated for her work just receives a bunch of shit about the UX being awful. Which is not great either.
It’s a tricky thing to get right.
Open source culture remains the biggest problem with open source software, sadly.
I’m pretty sure Dansup is at least 40 senior developers in a trench coat. It makes no sense how many quality projects this guy manages to develop and maintain.
Off the top of my head:
Fair point, would be an incredibly easy vector for abuse in any other way. Good thing I’m not a software engineer.
Curious - would boosts from users on non-blocked servers bypass the block here? In other words, does traffic for boosts go via the original instance, or is it direct between the boosting and the receiving servers?
Obviously they won’t give too much of a shit and they’re not going to send any mail, they’ll just block the server like they would anyway. They are, however, going to be annoyed to be treated as insignificant nobodies. So all in all not a bad idea.
The advent of AI has illustrated quite clearly that nobody cares, but that doesn’t make it less legally binding at least in theory.
If you post content clearly marked as CC BY-NC, you can at least be damn sure any use by commercial actors would be illegal.
You’re not really moving your account - you’re just migrating your followers over to the new one. If people try to reach you at the old handle they won’t get through, like a dead email address.
That said, I don’t really think this is such a big problem. The reason the AT protocol was invented is because they wanted to do their own thing rather than adhering to standards.
I think a common fault people have in general, and especially in open source circles, is to consider everything a zero sum game.
Obviously it’s not, and especially not in the Fediverse, but when did reality prevent anyone from being assholes on the internet?
Yeah, the irony is not lost on me!
Early on in the life of software I think a faster pace of development makes sense, when the software is less complex and there are fewer affected users. I think most Piefed users accept that they are very much using software that is still in active development.
Mastodon, on the other hand, is used by people who consider it to already be mature. A large number of people and organizations depend on it. Personally I trust it with the only actively maintained social media account I have in my real name. Moving too fast and making mistakes could have pretty fatal consequences there.
There are features I would like to see implemented as well - I think proper quote posts will be nothing but a huge improvement - but I appreciate that the developers are taking their sweet time making sure to get it right. And if Piefed reaches a million active users I expect its developer(s) to do the same.