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@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

this is a subtoot of all the people complaining that Mastodon instance moderators aren’t acting like the moderators of their hypothetical vaporware impossible ActivityPub implementation should act and are instead acting like the moderators of Mastodon instances

“if only ActivityPub instances worked like this” yeah well i’m on a Mastodon instance, which doesn’t 🤷🏻‍♀️

i really like in the video how the horse

i mean if you consider grungepunk to be calming

maybe i should listen to something calming like Anti‐Glory by Horsegirl

fucked up to have anxiety regarding a holiday i don’t even really observe

finally following up on this…

Here is the list of problems that our instance has identified with the Mastodon 4.0 upgrade, and how much work I think it will take to address these issues. I think we will probably want to fix all the things which aren’t labelled “Hard” before we merge in the latest changes here.

https://gitlab.com/kibicat/mastodon/-/snippets/2476610

Comments welcome!

cc: @darius who I know has been looking into this stuff for Hometown.

sitting at my computer like hm what is there to work on this completely unnotable december day

kibi you have a giant fuckoff TODO list go look at it

i always expect staying up late to correlate with sleeping in and yet

bonus question: what is the surname of Harry/Harriet?

is it selfcest if it is with a genderbent clone

like Link/Linkle or Harry/Harriet or Shadow/OC-who-looks-exactly-like-a-female-Shadow

like i’m sorry but this is the correct rendition of “You Give Love A Bad Name” https://youtu.be/wItP_2Pgc-4

we only had ‘This Left Feels Right’ growing up so sometimes i forget that there are shitter versions of the Bon Jovi songs