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virtualice @CobaltVelvet@octodon.social

people struggling with depression: *is depressed*

me struggling with depression: *builds utterly useless shit in seclusion*

is it a lighter bitmessage? i never really looked inside

with a tor-like relay thing so you can have your message just move around the network for half an hour

actually lets make the dht work that way lol

sent to a random node until it gets the right one (and then relayed some more for good measure)

have fun analyzing that traffic

*writing a e2e encrypted and authenticated p2p irc gateway*

why the fuck am i doing this

long time ago i wanted to build a birdsite with channels - basically hashtags, but each status has exactly one, and possibly very few of those available. you'd switch channel like tabs on a timeline and see a whole different plane of things happening

redundancy over activitypub when

like two accounts are synchronized both ways, and people can follow both and their instance will merge the result

"mark whole remote account as sensitive" when

"mark as sensitive" fixed when

maybe mastodon's growth is just not in making users know about mastodon - the software - itself

like we try to pitch a software but what we're really giving most users are instances anyway. maybe for most people to be interested, knowing about mastodon the software should come after knowing their favorite instance

opposite of lewd should be called dewl

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should have made it in go so it would be called gothext

nah

i think it's rocket's 6-hour-ago release that depends on pear_codegen "0.0", but they must have changed something important between 0.0.16 and 0.0.17

cargo update fixed it

so someone messed their semver. still the best package manager

of course it's some weird nightly codegen plugin hacky thing