Notices by ocdtrekkie (ocdtrekkie@mastodon.social), page 5

@Gargron It boggles the mind this wasn't optional. Why not let people keep their # if they want to?

@feditips Clearly the official app setting a default server was a huge threat to the fediverse!

@atomicpoet @Gargron Which, wouldn't be a condemnation of federation as a whole, just an indication that maybe large public servers are good and small personal servers are good, but the model in the middle may have more problems.

I don't know if I agree but I also don't think it's as radical as some people have taken it.

@atomicpoet @Gargron I read this as "either people expect 100% uptime and a full moderation team" or "they want to run their own and control everything", but servers somewhere in the middle size are likely to grant neither the professional operation nor the personal control users tend to want. Somewhere in the middle is often "seems cool until the admin gets in an argument and quits and deletes the server".

@atomicpoet I am quite comfortable with my home here, but I voted Yes because you seem to be pretty enthusiastic about it, and I think a diverse fediverse software environment is healthy for the network.

@atomicpoet It's actually been there for a while, I'm friends with the developer. But the model and approach of Yarn is a bit different, so there's both technical and social differences in the connection.

For example, Twtxt users tend to practice "slow social", Yarn doesn't implement notifications, by choice.

@atomicpoet @evan @fediversenews Indeed, it's silly to create your own standard unless you're trying to accomplish something significantly different or significantly improved from the existing one. Right now a single app has chosen an incompatible federation protocol they wrote themselves.

@zens @clacke This is one of those movies I will always remember because it is so incredibly what the heck once you've seen.

Like, you correctly guessed the villain, but you'd never expect it's literally just everyone in the movie.

Somewhere someone drew the timeline out for this movie and it's an absolute roller coaster.

@atomicpoet I think fundamentally the people behind these positions lack the technical understanding of how their position isn't practical. They see something in front of them they dislike, often run by a small enough entity (one person) they can successfully bully into shutting it down. The fact it doesn't solve the problem they can't see is immaterial.

@adamconover Being nerdy is just so much cooler now.

@dredmorbius @evan I would say I am also definitely interested in the topic but didn't find the poll clear enough to vote.

@lxo I definitely don't object to copylefts! My statement in support of SSPL, which is merely, a stronger copyleft, should indicate that somewhat. ;)

I will probably visit the possibility of using a copyleft license if I build something of substantial value. The vast majority of my code is either trivial, connective tissue barey worth its own license, or objectively bad code that I happen to be fond of using.

@Suiseiseki There's so much wrong in this comment I'm just going to pass on addressing it, tbh.

@lightweight I prefer permissive licensing but I think we need solutions to enable open source authors to charge large corporations heavily for usage. I think the failure of the OSI to accept SSPL or a similar variant thereof is a massive failure of the people we let dictate the definition of the term "open source".

@lightweight I permissively license all of my code because I'm not interested in holding any conditions over it. I have no intention of monetizing it, and have no real desire to track usage (or misusage) of it.

@lightweight I might worry about that if I wrote code I expected valuable derivatives of. =) If I wrote something I expected to get ripped off by Amazon, I would probably copyleft it.

@Gargron @cassidyjames Not according to a lot of server admins, it seems. ?

Is the staff@ address monitored though? I never got a response to either unrelated email I sent.

@Gargron Are you still growing the moderation team at this time?

@Gargron I didn't even know they weren't called toots anymore.

...Still gonna think of them as toots though.

@Gargron @zeitschlag I really hope the "no way to recover a draft that failed to publish" issue is high on his list. It was particularly painful during the 8 core database server days of late. ;)