Samizdata ✔ @Samizdata@octodon.social
A guy that interjects into random
conversations with truly bad jokes.
#MeFite
#ThatSameSamizdataYouHaveSeenEverywhereElseEXCEPTBritishLibertarianism
k so #introduction is a go. Queer mentally ill nerd, teacher degree but working as test engineer. Taking night classes in software dev. Mostly find my zen with knitting and cross stitch, only to have it ruined by bunnies Hulk and Breakfast.
Love fandom, but mostly a lurker. Like me some MCU, YoI, SPN. Big movie fan in general, horror & scifi most of all.
Married to @shanaqui and we're slowly merging into a single person.
#feminist #cynic #bunnies #mentalhealth
I have reworked the two-factor authentication page to require a confirmation and it is now live on .social. Given all the other fixes I am considering tagging a v1.1.1 release right now
@Samizdata I feel like a fix for that has GOT to be coming, it's such like a glaring issue lol
@spiderrobotpig debating somebody right now over this. Basic attitude: "hey if you don't like something, block it. Troll control is an imposition on freedom".
Asked him if he was white cishet guy: "Um yea but so what?"
I always hit an impasse here—how do you explain harassment to someone who doesn't experience it and doesn't care about people who do?
(I remember someone said this re: defending the ACA:) "I don't know how to explain to you why you should care about other people.")
Continuously and comprehensively consuming all the Star Wars media - as one does - I see the Jedi slaughter droids with abandon, and watch mechs flung into space or variously crushed, sliced, and electrocuted...
... and at the same time respond to the anthropomorphism that is played here for laughs, there for pathos...
... and I wonder when someone is going to seriously address the issue of their ambiguous sentience.
I opened up .social registrations for a short while. I think we can handle a couple more at this point~
Vancouver has a weird relationship and history with race and racism (...don't we all) that I haven't been able to quite get a grasp on, so it's hard not to read a little bit into that.
Anyway plz to be sending your favourite essays about Get Out. (Here are some hashtags for the sake of discoverability #getout #filmcritique #movies)
yknow I think the reason mastodon actually has a pretty good chance of surviving is BECAUSE it's not actually replacement twitter, it's totally got its own feel
TO BE CLEAR, I'm not saying that Mastodon will have any impact on Twitter whatsoever.
The idea of a social network "beating" another social network is ridiculous.
There needs to be a way to pause te Federated timeline display. I tried three time to interact with a Toot there, just to have it scroll past. Then I lost it.
Prediction: Mastodon will likely outlast Twitter.
Historically, decentralized, open-source platforms and protocols with any adoption run forever, even if they rarely reach the popularity or cultural relevance of centralized platforms.
It seems likely to me that when Twitter eventually shuts down, people will still be running Mastodon instances.
Did you know Diaspora has 328 active nodes and 17k users? Hell, there are 3,652 active FidoNet nodes, and that started in 1984!
So... am I wrong?
@jonathansampson @cbowdon our pair programming model is based on "enemy at the gates" ;) (https://youtu.be/sDXPNtaD6ZY)
That's me.
Fifth largest instance again :3
@Magnapinna
So in that case all that is missing, is an automated feature that will announce that you are migrating to a different account X on server Y in future.
You can already do the announcement, what isn't there yet is that other people will automatically follow your new identity.
re that post i boosted from @qyliss talks about how not only is the space of fuckery there if you can't trust your instance admin, but also there even if your instance admin does everything almost “right”, because the attacker isn't a rogue user, but rogue Instance. tl;dr the effective level of privacy may very well be at 🐦's level, but with a far bigger attack surface (i.e. all instances).
@wakest You can also identify the ones that will definitely explode messily by the OMG WE'RE GONNA CHAAANGE THEEE WORRRLD rhetoric backed by zero experience and boundless plans (*cough* diaspora). Mastodon is, in certain very key aspects, not technologically trying to Be Everything. It's written in a very boring way in a very well known stack, doing essentially a very well stomped space. That's part of why its working.
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https://kumu.io/wakest/fediverse
if anyone wants to help with this I have just been playing around. really just wanted to see how the whole network looked from a far. this should really be done with code not one by one like I am doing now but alas I started and this is what came out of it.
