I'm hearing about mastodon over gopher and getting irrationally excited. This could be the best Christmas in twenty years.
Bandwidth throttling Wikipedia article edited anonymously from US Senate https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=815548411&oldid=814112596
Remember when a distributed wireless mesh was a fantasy and not a badly needed bulwark against a dystopian reality?
Hahaha good times
*cries in cyberpunk*
https://social.freedombone.net/url/65578
maybe "millennials" will be the last named generation; "boomers" will keep calling everyone younger than them millennials until they all die off and then we can all just stop talking about generations having characteristic beyond what emerge from their material conditions
i have a british colleague whose last name is gwilliam and i love how that means he had an ancestor who went to france and had his name frenchified and then had a less distant ancestor who went back to england and had his name anglicized its like analog reverse google translate
@dria likewise
Back when I was active on Usenet it was considered pretty normal to have house rules for any newsgroup, you were also expected to refrain from posting long enough to notice and learn the unspoken customs (this was called "lurking").
Nowadays people see it as an orchestrated attack against free speech, shout references to 1984, and threaten to move elsewhere.
Yet the ones asking us all to behave politely are called "hypersensitive"?
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People:
1) pyrokinesis
2) bioluminescence
3) omnipresence
4) eyebeams
5) pine scent
6) robot arm
7) gills
@cmr @mbrubeck Considering the existence (and plausible use) of https://github.com/rrichardson/hyphae I recommend Conidium or Oidium.
"The Minimally-nice Open Source Software Maintainer." A wonderful bit of introspection from #rustlang's Brian Anderson:
kɜ:ʳ 
wait so once ur jacked in to cybrespace how do you jack back out again
i forgot to read the manual and now my hands are nintendo powergloves
@Gankro every problem in social software comes face to face with the turing test and/or identity farming at some point.
@Gankro Sometimes. Native phone apps (including web pages on phones -- https://wicg.github.io/netinfo/) can change behaviour when they're on a fast/cheap network like local wifi and/or mains power.
When on both, your phone might as well mesh. Agreed that when only on battery and lousy 3G it should drop to dumb client mode.
(Laptops and desktops more-likely to default-mesh)
2 Rules of Dealing with Witches:
1. Don't fuck with witches.
2. See Rule 1.
@Gankro Certainly not! Backpressure / fanout-caps / rate limiting is completely different than banning. Different purpose, different people effected, different consequences. A maxed-out account is a successful account, not one you want to ban!
@Gankro Clearly I haven't explained of my _other_ Clever Design Intuition for Social Software, which is to cap graph-degree for each person / each room at some reasonably low number. Set a speed limit / fixed amount of human oversight on propagation. No super-propagators.
