Notices by Erin 💽✨ (erincandescent@akko.erincandescent.net), page 4

someone who is good at ram please help me budget this. my computer is dying.

@trwnh @darius @julian @evan I will be the first to admit that I’m not a massive fan of the “context” property name but given it is baked into likely billions of posts at this point I mostly feel it’s the lesser of two evils. If this were an misuse of the property that was blocking some preferable use (e.g. Mastodon’s abuse of the “summary” property for CWs) then I would agree that it would be worth dealing with the pain, but in this case I feel pretty much any use of the property would be better off picking a more specific name so we may as well grandfather the use of “context” for “conversational context” (which is a valid use, per the definition)

Truthfully the Original Sin here is the inclusion of such vaguely defined terms in the original AS2 specification

@trwnh @darius @evan @julian (I have converted these thoughts and a few more into an issue. It’s a bit strange to see discussion for a FEP moved to an issue tracker - for pretty much all of them historically a SocialHub thread has been made, and that has worked quite well)

@evan @julian @darius That doesn’t really cover the why other than “context is vaguely defined” (maybe, but its’ been used in this exact way for… 7 years now? And is being used in this way by multiple interoperating implementations)

@evan @julian @darius How does the “thread” property differ from the “context” property which basically every implementer is already using and has been doing so for 6+ years?

@mekkaokereke What would you class “a dog pile ostensibly in the name of social justice, by people who are perhaps not part of ‘your community’ but are adjacent to it”? Especially when its based upon either something that you said but entirely decontextualised, or based upon something you didn’t say at all?

There are groups of people, both here and elsewhere, which enjoy employing this exact strategy - ostracising people on the basis of slights imagined or exaggerated. I have seen them referred to as “context collapse cults”, a term I think is quite apt.

They are often full of well meaning people who do not realise what their group has become, but they are very insidious.

Honestly, from my own experience, I sorta-kinda recommend being on the receiving end of a cancellation mob.

It both gives you a visceral understanding of why you should resist any urges to ever join one again, and also just how… impotent they are. It’s harrowing, yes; but you come out of it a week later and by and large nothing has changed.

You might lose a few friends, but friends who abandon you at the first sign of trouble didn’t really respect you as a person anyway.

I presume there’s some sizable sampling bias here, but these numbers are quite a bit higher than I expected.

And yet, simultaneously, not high enough to end the outrage cycle that perpeptuates this.

RE: https://akko.erincandescent.net/objects/8c3c9a25-ae63-44c0-9c8e-322a986da9d9

To be fair to the flying experience, perhaps mine would be substantially less crap if my local airport weren’t the one who’s construction process was so incompetent there’s a board game about not building it

My flight is one hour delayed because BER only has one wheelchair ramp for disembarking and it was busy when the plane arrived. Incredible.