All good, no hard feelings like I said.
Dont confuse what I stand for, or how strongly I stand for it with what I stand for and impose on others.
I beleive very strongly that you should have control over your data. Not that it shouldnt be scrapped or that it should, but only that you should have the power to enable your data to be used how you please.
Any over arching statement about data I make as a default will impose my views about data on others. I only want to empower them.
My views mostly revolve around choice and empowerment but I go real strong into not having my views being forced on anyone else.
If your main task is not improving people direction and more into the Tech or AI
I dont see these two as separate. You having access to powerful tools, if done right, should give you the means to improve yourself and others through better social interaction. The key here is empowerment rather than enforcing an ideology.
Your past appreciation you also might forget so in general it’s just a bunch of forgetfulness in total itself… like I haven’t been grateful or should remain grateful for increasingly empty words I’ve had to push replies for (you could have updated us).
I dont need the appreciation so much… Its more about the tone and insistence on getting your way. Feel free to talk about it and im not suggesting you should stop. But remember this is a free service done as a hobby. This server was only ever opened to others out of generosity and no gain to me.
It’s not negative to say things you said months ago and even recently the searchable post would be done and frankly even free bad promises is also bad work like I said - nobody likes when the washing machine guy doesn’t turn up again.
You stating facts werent really the issue, I quoted the part i mostly took issue with.
Eat it and expect it from no power on my side or ability to align people out of what you demonstrate you clearly have or have not the time for sometimes.
If you managed to align the community to rally around a particular idea id be much more likely to adopt it. Generally I try to listen to anythign the community has consensus on.
If you could help “pity the fool” who is data trapped here since Mastodon cleverly doesn’t even have an import function or offline viewer of my data - somewhat great for these situations - so helping me export my data outbox,json to something human readable offline with pictures together means I’d quite happily “save” you all the money on me,.. and shows further you just don’t get it and on some other mission.
If I wanted to save the money on you then I just wouldnt provide you the service. I wouldnt need to offer you something in exchange. I’m not obligated to keep footing the bill if I dont want to obviously. That said if I ever did decide such a thing I’d give plenty of notice. But still, this is kinda what I mean, your statement/tone here seems to suggest I have obligation to you like I owe you something. I dont, what I do I do out of a sense of consideration, not obligation.