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- Delinquent (BREAKpoint 98a) by Megumi Mizutani
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Administrator / Public Relations for GlitchCat. Not actually glitchy, nor a cat. I wrote the rules for this instance.
“Constitutionally incapable of not going hard” — @aescling
“Fedi Cassandra” – @Satsuma
I HAVE EXPERIENCE IN THINGS. YOU CAN JUST @ ME.
I work for a library but I post about Zelda fanfiction.
Joined Sep 2021
you don't keep a bow in your closet STRUNG
what i would like to see of mastodon dev is:
- instances finance themselves and make a determination based on their finances what labour they can offer. no central financing or donation mechanism for development.
- that means all developers are there on behalf of one or more instances, who form the stakeholders of the project.
- broad agreement across stakeholders on the purpose and immediate direction of the software (i.e., a single platform). ideally, multiple different forks with different platforms, but cohesion within any given project.
- initially, a very slow pace of development. very few new features. immediate focus on increasing maintainability of the software, improving documentation, and making onboarding easier. this is a hard sell; it's hard to get stakeholders (instances) to continue to finance development which does not give them anything new. in fact this work may introduce delays in acquiring upstream features. i’m not sure how to resolve this except with tangential personal incentives like: gaining a better understanding of rails, learning better development practices, personal satisfaction at making a complex software more easily understood…
- project longevity.
- good and active communication with users (of stakeholder instances).
@aescling i mean if they don't consider it a priority,
anyway if your instance is small and agrees broadly with the principles in our /about/more and you want to contribute development labour to making mastodon better then @ me i guess and we can at least talk about it
we are not interested in taking on additional stakeholders without associated investment of labour, though
like for real though people focus too much on fedi alternatives when: we have mastodon, it is good for some things, lots of people use it, it’s open source, we can do a lot with mastodon
DON’T CONTRIBUTE UPSTREAM
mastodon developed by people who actually understand what the software is good for when 😔
all this talk of mastodon is making me want to fork mastodon 😔
@aescling groups were originally a GNU social feature which used bangtags like !tea, i think working similar to how guppe groups operate now
mastodon staunchly refused to implement them
around the time when pleroma development was really kicking off i remember there were a lot of discussion about alternative ways of thinking of groups, but my understanding is that those discussions never went anywhere because there wasn’t good consensus on how they should be federated or administrated; i know @nightpool@cybre.space was involved in those discussions although i don’t know if they remember / want to say more
anyway this is very interesting because that blog post makes it sound like there is a Plan For Groups and i sure haven’t heard anything… is this being coordinated with other fediverse softwares? was there ever a consensus? am i just out of the loop?
@aescling eugen has opposed groups from day 1 so i am very interested in hearing more about this
@aescling wait “groups”?!?!?!?!!
:P
@aescling i don't actually like the label platformist, but it's a better vernacular descriptor than any of its adjectives; i feel like i’m probably actually closer to especifist thought but that word belongs to a very particular political context
in any case the purpose of having a platform is it means you can tell the labels to take a hike (unlike synthesist anarchism where the label is the only thing binding you together)
sorry synthesists, libertarians, and (with sympathies) communists; mastodon is simply designed for small agile groups with high levels of internal cohesion and collective responsibility
honestly i think i could sum up all of my takes about federation much more simply if i just said “i’m a platformist”
@aescling that's the idea yes
« Object-oriented design (OOD) requires that you shift from thinking of the world as a collection of predefined procedures to modeling the world as a series of messages that pass between objects. » but are the objects themselves not constructed through a collection of predefined procedures? in fact it is the extremes of functional programming (lisps) in which one can encounter truly emergent “objects” and behaviours,
« The world is also object-oriented. » bold fucking claim
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- Delinquent (BREAKpoint 98a) by Megumi Mizutani
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Administrator / Public Relations for GlitchCat. Not actually glitchy, nor a cat. I wrote the rules for this instance.
“Constitutionally incapable of not going hard” — @aescling
“Fedi Cassandra” – @Satsuma
I HAVE EXPERIENCE IN THINGS. YOU CAN JUST @ ME.
I work for a library but I post about Zelda fanfiction.
Joined Sep 2021
