> Presumptuously assuming here that you need Erlang and Elixir for #Pleroma and precisely nothing else,
You do need those to hack on Pleroma because Pleroma is written in Elixir, but there are dependencies that are written in C, too. There's probably other stuff in there.
> cuz I had literally never heard of either of those languages before getting involved in #fedi
I did some Erlang at an old job; I'd never done Elixir but I saw people talking about it.
It gets easier to pick up languages the more you pick up anyway. And then you know, like anyone can pick up awk in 30 minutes, most of the shells anyone uses are scripting languages you can pick up gradually.
Presumptuously assuming here that you need Erlang and Elixir for #Pleroma and precisely nothing else, cuz I had literally never heard of either of those languages before getting involved in #fedi
What's most important is the comfy vibe that keeps my friends and I coming back. :blobfoxcomfy: We don't have shareholders to answer to, so we don't need silly "success metrics". :blobfoxthumbsup:
If you're a #musician who's moved over from #Twitter, here's four things (that lead to more things), that you can check out to help get acquainted with the #Fediverse.
Strap in; I don't usually do threads. But I need help from the angriest, un-White-est, un-eurocentric-ist corners, un-bound-by-gender-norm-ist corners of this place, the folks who play joyfully with their allies and kids because it's not a luxury, it's what we fight for.
(Sealions will be blocked instantly.)
My family---my children---love role playing games, and I have used collusive narratives with some rules, lots of world building, and dice since they were very small. But now that they are old enough to go looking on the internet, to read the rulebooks... we have a serious representation problem.
I guess it's (roughly) comparable to the systematic oppression in the #Fedi, though I really, really don't want to trivialise-by-comparison the appalling violence that Black heroes here are struggling to name and dismantle.
But when we look at the popular play-along videos or the books or whatever - we *are* the exotic at best, the horrors at worst. Everyone in those videos are the people who describe us as "the interesting family", the people who sabotaged our autism support groups with their instinctive racism, gender norms (and layer upon layer of other -isms).
It sure would be nice to have some automated reporting by keywords right about now....you know, the thing I was explicitly told was NOT gonna happen...🤬
For #Fedi#SciArtSeptember Day 29 • chaos • My hoop guts often look like chaos. These are from my vagus nerve #embroidery, the wandering ghost (2024). #SciArt
About to give Saturn another go for a few days hopefully.
The dev has removed the post limit for free users, which is definitely good.
Paying to post on Fediverse where everywhere else is free, is wild.
They also said they fixed the crash bug with notifications. Those two things immediately killed my motivation with wanting to use the app so hopefully it's better this time.🤞