Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

adults are people who have to do things themselves because society has deemed them no longer deserving of structural support

glitchcat isn't technically a Cat Returns fan instance

but only technically

author: wait i forgot i wanted to write that clichéd conversation !!

the man went DAYS before realizing he didn't use a condom

link is once again shocked by things he should have noticed and probably assumed by now (zelda not wearing a bra)

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).

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 😔

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”

i don't actually hate OOD i'm just a poststructuralist

« 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

« His computer was old enough that it still had a disk drive built into it. »

« Then again, Link found out that he hated Revali *even more* when he caressed Zelda and then stabbed her twice in the back with a fake knife before slowly and heart breakingly slitting her throat. »

brother are you legitimately surprised this woman took off her bra before going to bed

what do you think love is