{"text":"@strypey \n\n> Some people follow the consensus and prevent it emerged spontaneously from their own unique, individual brilliance. No judgment, whatever gets you through the day :neckbeard:\n\nfixd\n\nA thing doesn't require consensus to be created.  Consensus does not create a thing.  A protocol requires consensus, but this does not.  And FediList, which did not require consensus to be created, but just someone willing to do the work, enabled people to observe the changes to the network in real-time.\n\nSure, ideas spread through communication (do have a look at the domain name) but if a person is standing a machine up and joining a network, the consensus can't have involved them:  a person starting an instance needs to know who to ask so they don't have to guess, and \"who\" has to be \"people, specific people that you can specifically address\" instead of \"a wiki\" or \"file a ticket so we can tell you it's a dup\" or \"a bunch of stuff in the doc directory that does not account for a bug that started happening *today*\".","truncated":false,"created_at":"Fri Sep 19 12:06:49 +0900 2025","in_reply_to_status_id":"11100208","uri":"https:\/\/fsebugoutzone.org\/objects\/0e34a240-64ed-4983-b596-a9662e8a4983","source":"ActivityPub","source_link":null,"id":11100230,"in_reply_to_user_id":4086,"in_reply_to_screen_name":"strypey","geo":null,"user":{"id":256996,"name":"pistolero","screen_name":"p","location":null,"description":"Resident hacker, leader of the fsebugoutzone.org coup of the FSE Autonomous Zone, BOFH of freespeechextremist.com, and former admin of FSE before the establishment of the FSE Autonomous Zone.  Launching a guerilla war against myself from this bunker.I&#39;m not angry with you, I&#39;m just disappointed.I am physically in Los Angeles but I exist in a permanent state of 3 a.m.I have dropped a bytebeat album, feel free to DM me for a download code or a link to a tarball:  https:\/\/finitecell.bandcamp.com\/album\/villain .  There is a chiptunes album there, too.Revolver is coming:   https:\/\/blog.freespeechextremist.com\/blog\/revolver-kickoff.htmlWar has changed:  https:\/\/blog.freespeechextremist.com\/blog\/update-and-roadmap.htmlThe usual alt if FSE is down: @p@bae.st or @p@shitposter.world.","profile_image_url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/theme\/gnusocialjp\/default-avatar-stream.png","profile_image_url_https":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/theme\/gnusocialjp\/default-avatar-stream.png","profile_image_url_profile_size":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/theme\/gnusocialjp\/default-avatar-profile.png","profile_image_url_original":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/theme\/gnusocialjp\/default-avatar-profile.png","groups_count":0,"linkcolor":false,"backgroundcolor":false,"url":null,"protected":false,"followers_count":1,"friends_count":1,"created_at":"Wed Apr 24 21:23:10 +0900 2024","utc_offset":"0","time_zone":"UTC","statuses_count":35403,"following":false,"statusnet_blocking":false,"notifications":false,"statusnet_profile_url":"https:\/\/fsebugoutzone.org\/users\/p","cover_photo":false,"background_image":false,"profile_link_color":false,"profile_background_color":false,"profile_banner_url":false,"is_local":false,"is_silenced":false,"rights":{"delete_user":false,"delete_others_notice":false,"silence":false,"sandbox":false},"is_sandboxed":false,"favourites_count":58249},"statusnet_html":"<a class=\"u-url mention\" href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.nzoss.nz\/@strypey\">@strypey<\/a> <br \/><br \/>&gt; Some people follow the consensus and prevent it emerged spontaneously from their own unique, individual brilliance. No judgment, whatever gets you through the day :neckbeard:<br \/><br \/>fixd<br \/><br \/>A thing doesn't require consensus to be created.  Consensus does not create a thing.  A protocol requires consensus, but this does not.  And FediList, which did not require consensus to be created, but just someone willing to do the work, enabled people to observe the changes to the network in real-time.<br \/><br \/>Sure, ideas spread through communication (do have a look at the domain name) but if a person is standing a machine up and joining a network, the consensus can't have involved them:  a person starting an instance needs to know who to ask so they don't have to guess, and \"who\" has to be \"people, specific people that you can specifically address\" instead of \"a wiki\" or \"file a ticket so we can tell you it's a dup\" or \"a bunch of stuff in the doc directory that does not account for a bug that started happening *today*\".","statusnet_conversation_id":5650655,"statusnet_in_groups":false,"external_url":"https:\/\/gnusocial.jp\/notice\/11100230","in_reply_to_profileurl":"https:\/\/mastodon.nzoss.nz\/@strypey","in_reply_to_ostatus_uri":"https:\/\/mastodon.nzoss.nz\/users\/strypey","attentions":[{"id":4086,"screen_name":"strypey","fullname":"Strypey","profileurl":"https:\/\/mastodon.nzoss.nz\/@strypey","ostatus_uri":"https:\/\/mastodon.nzoss.nz\/users\/strypey"}],"fave_num":0,"repeat_num":0,"is_post_verb":true,"is_local":false,"favorited":false,"repeated":false}