Notices by Katherine Cox-Buday (katco@mstdn.social)

@cwebber The federation is a collection of planets who are mutually aligned towards exploration, scientific discovery, and cooperation.

They also have a mismanaged military called "The Star Fleet" with badmirals who love to break the rules.

But it's OK because they have space captains that keep things in check by ignoring the badmirals when it's entertaining.

"Threads" refers to the sometimes (suspicious) episodic escapades that ensue throughout the fediverse.

@josh right. This helps me take this announcement in good faith (unless there's some deep entanglement to Element in operating that instance I don't know about, e.g. there's a CVE disclosed, no one at Matrix to fix it, and Element has forked the spec).

@luis_in_brief @be @shauna @cwebber @root

@josh is matrix.org, the instance of Matrix, owned and governed by the Matrix foundation or Element? Because that seems like significant leverage. If Element attempted to fork/ignore the spec, I think it'd be difficult to fork away from that instance at this point.

@luis_in_brief @be @shauna @cwebber @root

@be @josh @shauna @luis_in_brief @cwebber @root I agree with the spirit of this change, but as @cwebber pointed out, we've seen this movie many times.

Is this situation made less risky in that we're talking about reference servers that implement a protocol, and that there are other servers that do the same, e.g. https://conduit.rs/?

It seems like this is a good example of why protocols are good.