@bamfic I have a distinct memory of coming home from strangeloop excited about pump.io, doing this exact thing, and then missing the boat on the fediverse for another five years
not that I regret it, but I wonder how much of a head start we could have gotten if they hadn't picked such a poor foundation
@DarioZanette@gaghyogi49 it's not "why do some bolians look different from others" as much as "why does this specific bolian, who is the highest-ranked we've ever seen, look different from every other bolian"
but the answer is probably similar to if an alien saw Sisko and asked why he looked so different from every other captain we've seen so far (it's racism of course!)
@a it wasn't until I saw private profile notes on fedi that I started putting comments/receipts in the config file that contains my IRC ignore list, and you know what? it's a really good idea!
@halcy@ieure@researchfairy@mike yeah, I was hoping to see our instance on the list but alas; they have a form for appealing being blocked but they don't have a form for appealing not being blocked, for some reason
@apLundell Star Trek diverges from our timeline either with the eugenics wars in the 1990s or the Toronto bridge attack in 2022, depending on which Trek timeline you mean, but in theory Fallout could diverge from a post-eugenics-wars timeline instead of ours?
@alienghic oh nice; didn't realize octodon was on glitch
I didn't realize what a big improvement it was over plain text until I'd had it for a while and gotten used to it but now it makes stock mastodon feel pretty clunky
it also looks like allowing limited replies is on the roadmap for gts 0.17.0 which I'm really looking forward to
@alienghic oh, I mean you can use postgres if you want to, but I can't comment on how easy it is to use because I haven't tried that
I've been slowly shifting over from this account to my gts one, and I've noticed that being on a single-user instance makes you a much lower-profile target for reply guys and spam
I copied the instance blocklist from icosahedron.website into my own instance and that has served me well so far; subscribing to shared blocklists is on the roadmap for the next release but currently all it has is import/export of blocklist CSVs
I really hate the default mastodon UI so I've been using pinafore/tusky since 2018 or so, so to me mastodon and gts feel almost indistinguishable except for the fact that mastodon lacks markdown support, which sucks
@alienghic as far as "how annoying is it" I don't have to do anything except run `make upgrade VERSION=0.16.0` once every few months, and ctrl-c up-arrow in the tmux session
it's ridiculously easy if you set it to use sqlite; basically dynamic DNS and NAT are the only complicated parts and those have nothing to do with gts and everything to do with "residential ISPs suck"
@vladh good post but awfully weird at the end that he posits his definition of AGI-as-domination as a thing that could happen in the future instead of a thing that has obviously already occurred
(I guess one big reason is that I was less than a year old the first time I went to Bandung but STILL, you're never too young to learn about anti-colonialism)