Notices by Oblomov (oblomov@sociale.network)

@fribbledom

The KISS principle, where KISS stands for "Kubernetes Is Simple" Superstition

@paolabonacini da sempre il problema di queste situazioni non è che avvengano, è che vengano documentate (esempi classici si trovano ovunque nella storia recente; documenti le torture in carcere? finisci nei pasticci, e i torturatori a piede libero o anche promossi; e via cosí)

@mekkaokereke and funny how nobody has issues accepting that when Rome conquered Greece they imported a lot of culture and traditions from there. It's almost as if the idea of the colonized influencing the culture of the colonizer is only problematic when the colonized skin is darker.

Apparently mastodon.social is undergoing a massive #DDoS that brought it down, which may or may not be related to the disservice experienced by #BlueSky last week. Of course, this being the #Fediverse, the only measurable effect for the majority of Fedizens will be some reduction of traffic on their timelines, depending on which fraction of their followings are on that instance.

And this is why #ActivityPub, with all its deficiencies, is still better than #ATProto.

Everybody's doing a brand-new thing now
(Come on baby, do the slop-o-motion)
I know you'll get to like it if you give it a chance now
(Come on baby, do the slop-o-motion)

My little baby sister can do it with ease
It's easier than learning your A-B-Cs
So come on, come on, do the slop-o-motion with me.

#parody #slop #genAI #locomotion

@benroyce @lxo @Jirikiha @macacator @MyWoolyMastadon @john @engel @everton137

Yes, you already pointed out that the Mastodon developers not give a flying fuck about interop is a “fact of life”. And we already pointed out the ethical implications of that. Calling us names because you're uncomfortable with the ethical implications of your remarks only tells on you.

@benroyce @lxo @Jirikiha @macacator @MyWoolyMastadon @john @engel @everton137

And you keep ignoring how OStatus is only one example in a string of examples, but hey, again, whatever you need to protect yoursel.

@benroyce @lxo @Jirikiha @macacator @MyWoolyMastadon @john @engel @everton137

and still you insist on ignoring the point, which is that they could have kept OStatus support and only use the improvements for AP only. They could, they chose not to.

@benroyce @lxo @Jirikiha @macacator @MyWoolyMastadon @john @engel @everton137 I'm sorry, but that's bullshit AND toxic. You can absolutely have progress AND interop. Whether you choose to do it the ethical way or not tells everything you need to know about the developers.

Every other project has to bend over backwards to be compatible with Mastodon, but Mastodon doesn't even do the bare minimum to be compatible with other platforms. This is basically the definition of abuse of power.

@benroyce @lxo @Jirikiha @macacator @MyWoolyMastadon @john @engel @everton137

You should really look at e.g. Friendica on how things can be done WAY better than the way Mastodon has been handling interop since forever.

@benroyce @lxo @Jirikiha @macacator @MyWoolyMastadon @john @engel @everton137 and that's the thing that you're missing here: they don't, which gives Mastodon overarching power within the Fediverse ecosystem, which they abuse with very little care for interoperability with the rest of the ecosystem. Even where there are signs of improvement, interoperability with other platforms remains an extremely low priority over other features, and this is not healthy for the ecosystem.

@benroyce @lxo @Jirikiha @macacator @MyWoolyMastadon @john @engel @everton137

Power dynamics exist even outside of capitalism.

@selzero wife will have the whole weekend off (she usually works either Sat or Sun, but not this time)

@larsmb oh well, time to reset the sign «it has been 0 days since a self-proclaimed libertarian turned out to be OK with Nazis.»

I've had a thought about the whole #Discord thing. One of the reasons why it has become so popular even as a “#forum” thing, despite being *utterly unusable* in that sense, is that is provided single sign-on. Once logged into Discord, you could trivially join any community with zero to no effort. Compare this with the sign-up process in *any* other context and it becomes pretty clear.

The only other place that offered a comparable experience was basically reddit, with its own sets of problems.

The migration from #Discord to anything else will not be a problem *only* because e.g. other chat systems to not provide a comparable UX, but *also* because each community going each separate way for *anything* (be it #chat or #forum) is that the first-time login/sign-up will have more friction than the funneling to Discord had.

One of the posts I saw in my timeline recently about the whole thing was pointing out that whatever is going to be proposed as a Discord alternative should focus on the UX, not on the kind of features that us nerds love, such as federation (or even security).

I'll add to that this kind of seamless joining UX *is* something whose absence will reduce community participation.

And while we're at it, I'll repeat something I've already mentioned: we need something like for the #Fediverse too.

One of the frustrating aspects of the #Fediverse remains the web-based cross-instance interaction. If I follow a link to a post anywhere on the Fediverse, and I want to interact with it in any way, the “flow” is still too cumbersome, especially when I want to interact with multiple different posts from the same instance.

The effort that has gone into #Mastodon to improve the UX from this side *has* improved the situation since 2022 (when I joined), but even on Mastodon it's still suboptimal.

Ideally, #Fediverse platforms should be able to interoperate at a deeper level. I should be able to browse a #Lemmy #PeerTube or #PixelFed instance with my #Mastodon account, or vice versa.

My understanding is that (some of) the platforms ideated by Mike Macgirvin (#HubZilla and #streams in particular, not sure about #Friendica) have this kind of integration (as well as other nifty features such as nomadic identities). Can we expand support for this to all Fedi platforms, I wonder?

@Eh__tweet @selzero speaking of US songs sung in other languages, Giorgio Gaber made an Italian version of «Snoopy vs the Red Baron»

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiM5MpoiNaI

and also one in Spanish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipn1Z8TeAYM