Notices by Brian David (bcdavid@hachyderm.io)

@mekkaokereke This is also the problem with the "we shouldn't abandon spaces to the bad people" line of reasoning, which I sometimes hear from well meaning people who will say this is what causes bubbles and polarization. And maybe to some extent it does. But also, if the ground rules of remaining include "you must accept being abused and unsafe", then it's unreasonable to expect anyone to deal with that.

@mekkaokereke Anyone who has watched 80s documentary Revenge Of The Nerds is well aware of this.

@mekkaokereke I think one part of it is that getting something right in a way that lasts does take an incredibly long time. Time which we may legitimately not have. The other part is what you said: getting people out of Twitter is in itself a crucially important goal.

So while BS isn't for me, I'm fine with it. And if Mastodon keeps improving and keeps the embers burning, then it will still be there if BS burns out (which I think BS will based on just the complete lack of a monetization plan).

@inthehands They not only did this for a month straight to Biden, they did it during a month where the Supreme Court said presidents are kings and where there was literally an assassination attempt against the other candidate!

@tchambers @dangillmor Is that new? I checked this just a day or two ago and did not see any non-Threads replies on Threads itself

@inthehands one of the biggest bummers about this is that back/forward caching in browsers has been around forever and really helps with this kind of thing, but then the JS thought leaders decided to ignore all that because using native browser features is apparently for chumps. Thus ruining web UI forever after.

@janl @mattly @polotek Yes, it's mostly the org chart vomiting onto the screen. And also, I have found that all backend devs and engineering VPs I've talked to about this seriously believe this is a better user experience than waiting longer with a splash screen but getting a more complete final render. A lot of people don't realize that multiple shimmers resolving at different times is usually perceived as slower to the user and introduces tons of jank.

@thomasfuchs What a terrible day to be able to read.

@GossiTheDog @malwaretech "Poll taken after the beginning of the war." Way to cherry pick.

Oh look, I can do that too!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_the_Iraq_War

@GossiTheDog @malwaretech Do you think Bush got re-elected because there was general consensus about Iraq?

@GossiTheDog @malwaretech "Lots of people." Do you hear yourself?

Nobody in the US bought into Iraq. Literally the largest anti-war protests in history. Do not use Iraq as a rubric for basically anything.

@GossiTheDog @malwaretech The response to 9/11 is widely considered the greatest foreign policy failure in the history of the United States. By basically everyone, including everyone in the US.

@thomasfuchs Goodness that thread was wild.

Anybody who has ever thought to themselves "I haven't experienced that here" should spend some time looking through the responses to any mildly viral thread.

@thomasfuchs @hbuchel Absolutely. I'm willing to bet a not insignificant amount of money (by which I mean, no more than $10) that React Server Components will never get used anywhere on Facebook.

@thomasfuchs @hbuchel I think there's also a story in here somewhere about how big companies flooded FOSS with solutions that were created specifically to solve their incredibly unique problems.

@thomasfuchs If the world burns but we get Half Life 3, will it have been worth it?

@mekkaokereke It's striking that this is one of the few "fedi is open and therefore you can't stop us from making it safe" takes I've read, but I've seen about a million "fedi is open, therefore you can't stop Meta" takes.

@atomicpoet I love HTML 5 and web technologies in general, but it was very much Apple that destroyed Flash by refusing to support it in iOS.