Lady @Lady@cat.family

we made this space our own through months of work and a fuckton of drama and infighting. but we did a good enough job that when mastodon took off, OUR culture was the one everybody associated it with

when mastodon first started, activitypub didn't exist yet. the fediverse was a bunch of GNU Social instances communicating over the OStatus protocol. these instances were well-established, and they did not take kindly to the popularity of Mastodon and all the new users taking over their existing, quiet culture

the existing, quiet culture, by the way, was a bunch of channer shit and blatantly anti-gay and anti-trans memes. the instance we saw most often on the federated timeline in those days was shitposter.club, a place which virtually every respectable instance now has blocked. mastodon didn't really *have* blocks back then

i don't have the words to properly situate this within the current discourse right now but you all should be aware that the fediverse is historically an anti-trans and anti-gay space also

• you’re into boys
• you’re REALLY into girls

its time is done; 2023 is the year we switch to saying thorofare

i just can't be bothered to write “ough” these days

they’re just not going to wrangle this very easy and obvious tag, aren’t they

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« Dr. Ashish K. Jha, the White House’s Covid-19 response coordinator, said he was confident about the holiday season as long as Americans continued to get vaccinated and boosted. » oh well if that's all

i can't tell if i should be surprised that this backport isn't working or that the original did

@nightpool@cybre.space or anything they boost, but yes, this is a fair point

i mean i think the critical issue here is that i support some government institutions and not others haha

not every organization funded or organized by a government loves cops, but if they are hosted on a government instance you kind of need to preemptively assume that they do. this forces an "all feds or no feds" moderation approach which i feel like could make things more difficult for people who actually have to work with federal organizations that aren't awful

i'm not saying the answer to this is having them set up an account on just any random server, btw, but i think there may be a compromise position here

@nightpool@cybre.space i think it's reasonable to want oversight before a government is able to read every post an instance has received regardless of visibility's setting

personally i would not knowingly federate with any government-run fediverse instance that had jurisdiction over my users for this reason, which means the only way a government account would EVER be able to reach us would be if it was on an instance whose administration i trusted to not allow that

i also find this hilarious because the worst case scenario is the fediverse becomes what it was a month ago when the rest of you were all on twitter

idk feel like i would've waited a bit before publishing that one

this person wrote a prequel fic for this other person's fanfic which is only 3/12 done

@darius but on the other hand, i would feel a lot safer interacting with a government account if i knew it didn't have immediate database access

even if it is supported in your instance, it may not be supported in apps, etc…

so like, chill; we’re the ones in control

this isn't iOS where new updates get downloaded and applied while you sleep and suddenly everything is different

it takes YEARS for any new feature to become widespread on the fediverse

everybody FUD-ing about impending hostile changes appearing in the fediverse once X terrible company starts pouring money into it, you need to understand:

nobody updates their instance lmao