@splitshockvirus Time to shill IPv6 and when those run out it's time for equally broken IPv7, because everyone has been giving out /64s basically to anyone.
@dcc@MK2boogaloo@mint There's also no way to search for open regs instance. Who outside of fedi really knows what FediList is? I had open regs with approval for months after a config mistake I made on both servers and literally nobody tried to sign up.
@dcc@MK2boogaloo@mint The effective shutdown of KF cc also started the wave of instances with invites only for frens. There are basically no open regs instances now apart from Club Cyberia, Nyanide, Anni and Ryona Agency.
To some extent I get it, you don't want retards joining your comfy instance with basically you, but even the registration reason is enough of friction to deter most users.
@MK2boogaloo@dcc@mint It's more of an instance discovery issue. Something fedi always had a problem with. Where do you think most of the Twitter refugees will end up. Mastosoc or Poast.
A new influx of users will almost always mean a new influx of Twitter users and I don't see that as a great thing.
@MK2boogaloo@mint Probably the same thing happened with marine. breastmilk.club has been serving an expired cert for like 2 months and now returns a 404.
If you can fetch a post from them via IEx with Pleroma.Object.Fetcher.fetch_object_from_id("<link to object>"), then I think it's a Sharkey bug, or they don't have enabled signed fetch and blocked you. The latter seems improbable.
I've have this exact problem with the crashing pigeon for months now and netzsphäre has this issue with transfem social.
@ins0mniak@coolboymew@sun This is what happens when basically every introductory programming course teaches Python as the first language.
Like it's not even a garbage language, the syntax isn't bad, if I ignore its insistence on whitespace. But it's almost always misused, the amount of garbage in the ecosystem is truly amazing and the core devs lost their path years ago.
@anemone@evelyn@arcana@sun Culturally fedi is already probably the closest to old forums. Minus the heavy-handed moderation and stupid amounts of thread locking that killed many forums. You just have to follow the right people that still sort of use it as a form of discussion around a topic and not like Twitter, ie. hellthreads that don't evolve into complete shitposting.
Sure, it's not ideal especially when you get flooded with notifs and there's no search function to search for topics as if they were threads like forums have, but it's somewhat close.
The reason why forums die quickly these days is because micro-blogging replaced them and without a general and large topic for the forum, they quickly run out of topics. When you look at the surviving forums, it's either a forum for a software project (Discourse), KF as a gossip forum and Vogons for vintage computing.
@meso@RustyCrab The nigga emoji pack isn't downloadable from Cyberia (easily). However the filenames for those emojis are public. All you have to do is get those filenames and politely hammer the correct endpoint for it to return the emojis for you.
@meso@RustyCrab Or ask Cassidy to make it downloadble. Then you are one request away from getting it as a zip archive you can then extract in your pleroma static emoji folder.
@arcana@evelyn@sun It is already "ruined". The network is already almost split in half and those two halves barely speak to each other.
One wants a mainstream replacement for media like Twitter and Instagram. The other one just wants to talk about technology and random stuff with frens while keeping a lot of the mentality that made the bigger social media sites bad and unpleasant to use away.
The first wants something a lot of people would use. The second one wants a niche community of like minded people talking to each other. Something resembling a large federated forum split across multiple sites.
This is my opinion on this, but I think not a small amount of people would agree with some parts of it.
The gist of it is that the Pixelfed add will now by default assume you want to register on the main Pixelfed server and logging in to a different server will require the user to go through a menu.
Tbh I wouldn't be surprised if he wasn't planning to quit fedi. As most as he can anyway. Initially Loops source code wasn't public at all while already deployed and advertised and the current way he handles the development resembles closed-source development a lot. (1) The FediDB source wasn't updated in years and the code running the website is different. (2,3)