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> damn I had no idea you experienced that in person that sucks, I would think they’d try to be nicer in person idk.

it's fine, i'm a grown man who can handle people. i just wouldn't sit down with them for a can of old beans or anything.

> I noticed this esp on mastodon. I also found it ironic they chose to use mastodon because of how resource intensive it is, then I learned that someone else is operating or maintaining the server. Pleroma would be a lot better but I bet the politics or reputation turned them off. They use a fork of masto.

i found it odd that they use something so resource intensive as well. mastodon can be detuned and decoupled to be more efficient, but not by much.

re: politics, this is a meme on fediverse. personally i don't care if someone uses pleroma, akkoma, mastodon, etc as long as they're having fun. but for some reason the fediverse has a turf war. there's some very interesting people on mastodon instances, but you almost have to standup a secondary instance on mastodon to connect with them.

> idk why your pull request would be rejected when some of the sites on the webring break the rules, or are bare clones.

likely because i was not able to fully fit into their world. i even mentioned when we met. oh well, i have other repos to pull against.

> I’ve definitely learned a lot from their projects but there’s still a lot I side eye. Either way I think a collapseOS -like scenario proves how dire the situation is down to hardware manufacturers. I don’t think something like pinebooks, open specifications, or FOSS will do anything, because the rot comes from within the systems in place, and everything is going as intended. It sucks but it’s true, the internet was always a platform controlled, owned, and built by the U$ gov.

you have a lot of good points here, fren. my motto is, `fvck the system, build your own`. even if said system requires being coupled tightly to xyz-service.

.gov sips everything. there's no way around this besides encryption and keeping low-orbit