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why on earth would Hylia’s Day be celebrated in the dead of winter; it’s clearly more akin to Easter

pet peeves: Zelda fans who write Christmas AUs but call it Hylia’s Day

sorry nerds, spiderman is Most Videogame, Super Hexagon is least

wait what shitty romcom was that scene in oh wait that's a scene from a fanfic

the bad jokes just aren’t worth it kids

people have complemented me on my dialogue writing but it’s not that i’m good at it so much as i don’t use it when it won’t be good

do we really need all this dialogue

hmmmmm

of the two “boring” is definitely the worse insult

it’s really the same idea—you are excited by something i don’t think is very exciting—but the word “perversion” implies there is something interesting going on there and if there was then maybe i would bother taking note

when normal people see a kink they don’t like they call it perverted but when i see a kink i don’t like i call it boring

i should probably not fill out a request to join an instance on 25 December if i want it to be noticed and accepted

put the cum at the beginning

my most underrated kink is non-chronological storytelling

@essentialrandom i think it depends on who is writing the whitepaper haha

if there was an active community of people who were actually, like, having meetings about this stuff, i might feel differently, but in my experience it’s a lot of lone wolf devs saying how THEY think things should work and not really taking feedback

@essentialrandom i mean the short answer is “collaboration”

i don’t think you can solve decentralization with whitepapers lol

and i would say like 95% of the “mastodon ActivityPub federation is bad” discourse falls into the whitepaper category

the other piece of this is that i am very unconvinced that it is possible to do this work without a prior frame of reference. mastodon’s frame of reference is obviously twitter, and that has problems, but i think the successful competing solutions will be ones which go “okay but what about THIS OTHER technology which we like, how do we adapt THAT for the fediverse (with changes)” and not “let’s try to completely reimagine human technical social interaction from nothing”. i don’t think that latter thing is really feasible because it means basically ridding yourself of all the experience and lessons that these platforms have accumulated. at the very least it will mean a LOT more fucking around and finding out before you get a usable product lol

@essentialrandom yes, i’m definitely not saying it isn’t important or worthwhile, i just:

• don’t think that work looks like what a lot of people think it does, and
• don’t think it’s a good basis for criticizing how people use or interact with the tools we DO have today, even though they aren’t ideal

@essentialrandom you can do that, but first you have to design that system, which is an impossible task for any one person or any short timeframe

what i’m saying is that the LOE for implementing OStatus over ActivityPub was much much smaller than the LOE for implementing “some new thing” over ActivityPub, because it’s the designing of “some new thing” which is the actual hard part. i see a lot of people who have this impression that one could “just do ActivityPub differently” because they think because porting OStatus over to AP was “not that hard”, that implementing an entriely new unproven thing without any solid design plans will be equally easy

the current fediverse is a model that has been under development for a decade; you’re not going to create something with equal sophistication without years of effort across multiple parties, and wherever you wind up will almost definitely not be whatever you are imagining right now

the only way Eugen was able to implement ActivityPub (along with others) and create the fediverse as we know it today was because he was JUST using ActivityPub to re·implement an already‐existing, years‐old, mature federation model (OStatus). it wasn’t ActivityPub ex nihilo from first principles

there will NEVER be a successful ActivityPub ex nihilo from first principles instance, because ActivityPub alone simply does not provide enough of a model for you to do this

if you want to develop your own ActivityPub implementation which solves all these problems:

• good luck, and
• this is literally an impossible task for you to do on your own