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@mattly @laurenshof but I think they goes back to Lauren's point. Asking for a gift link is constructive and engages with the OP. "pw;dr" is entitled and dismissive

Incidentally, the combined population of those counties is about 11.5 million people. Compare to the total population of Texas at 29 million.

So, you know, when Ken Paxton sues Harris and Bexar counties for *checks notes* letting people register to vote, that's something like 12% of the entire state.

But things are totally fine here, nothing to worry about.
https://newrepublic.com/post/185585/ken-paxton-threatens-sue-democrats-voter-registration

For some reason, national news about election shenanigans in Texas mostly identify the county name, as though anyone outside Texas knows what that means? Anyway, Ken Paxton is up to his usual shit, so you might need this little translation:

Harris county -> Houston
Bexar county -> San Antonio
Travis county -> Austin
Tarrant county -> Fort Worth
Dallas county -> Dallas, but I feel like most people can connect the dots on that one.

@inthehands @JessTheUnstill That's possible. But, so much of the tescreal, uh, philosphy and the techno supremacy that feeds it reads exactly like the deepest satire in hitchhiker's guide. It seems at least as possible that he would lament having written the torment nexus.

Does anyone else get rate limited from just using mastodon normally from the mastodon website? Like, doing absolutely nothing exotic. Just scrolling the timeline, sometimes hitting like or boost, checking notifications when they come in, very occasionally replying to something. And then there's a wall of toast messages saying to try again in 1 to 5 minutes.

Is this a me thing? Or a hachyderm thing? Or is mastodon just like this?

I don't accept the premise that there is a harmful class bias in opposing gen AI. This argument presumes both that the writing of working class and marginalized people is less valuable unless it matches the style of wealthy people, and that they cannot do so on their own, so a computer must do it for them.

Tbh, that sounds like the classist position to me. 🤷🏻♀️

#NaNoWriMo

@seachanger @scott so, this is a social problem, but it's rooted in the influence that Eugen has due to how widely deployed mastodon is. And that is addressable from a technical angle. I'm building alternative software, and there's a couple other serious projects also doing that. Contributing to one of those would help. Another option would be to build migration tooling to let existing servers go from mastodon to something else.

@seachanger @scott it seems like Eugen responds to competitive pressure. He's really focused on first party mobile apps right now. Supporting servers with features you want seems like the best way to shift his focus to that. And if it doesn't work, you still have more developed servers with features you want

@seachanger @scott I more meant alternatives to mastodon, but I'm a little biased towards that path. I think there are technical limits to what can be done with forks, and I don't expect Eugen to respond to that. But I could be wrong

A lot of people are seeing that the fediverse is not viewed as an attractive alternative to Twitter, and concluding is because people don't know about it. But I'm pretty sure people don't see it as an attractive alternative because they do know about it.

I guess I'm just muting this now, because holy shit is this thread going to be a top tier example of what makes this place unappealing.

Not that anyone asked, but it actually doesn't surprise me that Twitter likely getting shut down in Brazil is not dominating fediverse discussions. I would have a really hard time recommending that Brazilians move here en masse. The culture around here is—let's say—unwelcoming, and the moderation and safety tools are extremely not adequate to offset that.

The fediverse is not well connected to Brazilian social networks, and this doesn't seem likely to change that. Which sucks, for the record.

@inthehands Computer, enhance

@erincandescent @darius @thisismissem @mauve @trwnh undo is also a problem.

@darius @trwnh @thisismissem @mauve Because of Announce, as the obvious case. But more generally, when an object was created doesn't have any real connection to when it should be presented to people. Mastodon is doing more or less the right thing, here.

I wish mastodon would be more prompt in backfilling from the outbox, so that this wouldn't even seem necessary. But even that is basically the right behavior.

@trwnh @darius @thisismissem @mauve objects have dereferenceable URIs. Why wouldn't I make that a first class entity in my data model?

@trwnh @darius @thisismissem @mauve
Unless the activity is intentionally transient. The spec says this twice in two paragraphs. I don't know what it means for an activity to *not* be transient. Activities are actions, not ongoing persistent state. The objects the refer to are the persistent state.

@erincandescent @darius @thisismissem @mauve @trwnh I would argue that about non-transient activities.

@inthehands @jdp23 yes, yes, real programmers use quantum string vibrations etc

@inthehands hm, except that it turns out to matter what kind of thing things are, and also what other things they're related to, and in what way.