@Phantasm @:blank: @lain, author of the quixote @silverpill @Gay, loud and annoying ! :flag: :transdprk: @Blurry Moon

> Look, Pleroma is in no position to bake a feature, and say "take it, or leave it" and expect everyone interested to take it, or pull a Mastodon and force it on everyone through, the shear number of users. If you want to do groups properly, for which there is interest in the FEP community and also in the Mastodon community which used guppe quite a lot. I think it would best not to half-ass it and deal with the consequences later.

oh yes the FEPs, that's much better. Where cooperation == "discuss things to death, and then Mastodon ends up controlling the outcome anyway".

Before: Mastodon forces it on everyone through shear number of users

Now: Mastodon pretends to cooperate with the FEP process, and then essentially has veto power so they force it on everyone through shear number of users.

Like their Quote Posts. Do you think if Pleroma, Akkoma, and Honk showed up in the FEP process and said "this is terrible, you shouldn't do quote posts this way and you especially should not be trying to design features at the federation level that limit/restrict interactions to posts because it's an honor system and won't work anyway", that they'd have listened? Three votes from three stakeholders in the fediverse mean nothing when we don't have the userbase size of Mastodon.

At this point we either seize our own destiny or accept our fate as shit on the boots of Mastodon.

@:blank: @Phantasm @lain, author of the quixote @Blurry Moon no, the relay should only get public posts with hashtags tho not a firehose of every possible post from every public server

@Phantasm @:blank: @lain, author of the quixote @Blurry Moon well back at Fosdem 2020 or whatever I suggested a specialized relay service for hashtags so you could have your server auto subscribe to whatever hashtags your users wanted to follow

@Blurry Moon @nprofile1q... there was a rep this week that said something like "maybe we should just replace everyone in Congress" and I'm like YESSSSSSSS but it would never happen

@nprofile1q... @Blurry Moon because I don't have enough time

you realize we only have so many years on this earth, right? If I wanted to become in expert in everything that intrigues me I'll be dead before I finish

I also enjoy doing other things, like taking my dog on walks or reading books or playing videogames or having s*x with my wife

If I devoted 24/7 of my energy to these tasks I'd be an insufferable incel shitposter, but thanks to this amazing technology I'm just a regular shitposter

@nprofile1q... @Blurry Moon what about other stuff I want like a web-controlled audiobook player that streams through mpd and icecast and automatically controls my Sonos speakers and after a set timeout stops the audiobook and plays a relaxing sleep sound for me all night?

Where's the open source solution to that?

oh wait there isn't so I've vibe coded my own solution and it fucking rocks

I have dozens of projects like this in the back of my head that I've always wanted but nobody made

@nprofile1q... @Blurry Moon ok where are those free software people at and why aren't they building the shit for me that I want?

oh wait they're not slaves and we shouldn't treat them as such?????


also isn't your proprietary CPU making you anxious?

@nprofile1q... @Blurry Moon the future is going to be whatever the hell you want it to be

but there are plenty of apps/tools that have never existed before because nobody thought it was a problem worth solving, or there isn't a good enough product-market-fit

now you can make custom tools pretty easily to solve almost any problem you have. I have a ton of things I've wished for but never had the time to build, and now I can have those things solved quite easily.

It's liberating.

@nprofile1q... @Blurry Moon it builds its own tools. I had it develop custom things in node and python. The Markdown just tells it how to use the tools it built and what they're for.