Please, if you respect and love the availability of ad-free and spy-free services, don't bring your sysops to their knees to ask for donations to keep your favorite services online.
@graf had to remind people that his network of services wouldn't make it unless he got a day job, and he caught a lot of heat - and love - as a result. But I hate to watch him come to that point, because it could just as easily be me.
Well, actually, it kinda is us. NHTB survives because of the love we have for our little community, and our fallen brother (no, he's not dead) Illuminazi paid for it out of his pocket for years, and @thomaslewis before that as well.
While on the other hand, misskey.io is rumored to have raked in $10k recently. A Japanese instance, and since I can't read moonrunes anymore, I don't know what they're talking about. But they really got quite the boost from whatever caused their instance to get flooded suddenly.
Friends, this isn't about me, or graf, or japs, this is about the preservation of our communications infrastructure. This is about the love for our White brothers and sisters. This is about preserving your mind and sanity - such as it is - by providing services that aren't there to specifically target your hormones and make you the product. This is about excising the ghosts of Edward Bernays and Sigmund Freud from our technology, so that we can have a healthy future, hand-in-hand with these technologies.
Please, if you can, donate gladfully to the sysops running the services you use. If you can't, try to encourage others who can to do the same. I would even appreciate your fervent prayers in our case, for the strength and resolve to keep this wagon going, however we can. Please, I beg of you, don't make me, my friends or compatriots beg for donations.
@victor I like helping people. If I owned my own MSP, I would be very content.
Although I would diversify. Not just an MSP, but also have my own datacenter, and repair shop capable of handling microsoldering. If I made too much money, I would dump some of it into a LAN center/cafe/gaming store, and shill @NEETzsche's stuff for free.
While at the same time subtly promoting Christianity and National Socialism.
@silverpill I'd say to stick to the run external program bit, rather than implementing a WASM handler to handle it. Gives users the option to use anything implemented by anyone, and it's already working really well for the nostr relay strfry, paired with @alex's strfry policy.
@Moon@meso@i@alex@meso I will probably be working on testing migration from akkoma to soapbox soon, but it may be a couple of weeks before I begin that process. i'll start doing homework on it sometime this weekend, to see if I can diff out the migrations akkoma made
@verita84@dcc@manjaruntu@splitshockvirus@spitfire pleroma, akkoma, and misskey is all trannyware. Rebased is the heterosexual fork of pleroma, but it's still got the telltale signature of tranny software development, and has to continue to deal with a lot of technical debt as a result. Please join me in intermittently appealing to @alex to develop his own fediverse backend so that we can finally break away from the trannyware occupation of open source software development.
@alex@graf The whole MRF concept is pretty dirty, it's like making a kernel module.
We still need our own backend that isn't written by trannies. I should consider implementing more of the strfry writepolicy plugin style with my backend that i'm writing in fits and spurts.
@graf yeah it just needed the rest of the stuff from the rebased commit for the AntiDuplicationPolicy MRF
@alex could we add a {:error, :no_cache} case in the MRF in case someone thinks they can run off with just the MRF alone and slap it into his Akkoma install without paying attention? :DDD:
@graf@Tony@burner@freddie_the_fed i'm gonna try to get to the coal chamber concert in dallas in august I think it is, it's time I find a way to get a final answer to this
@graf@Tony@burner@freddie_the_fed oh man i don't know if i've ever had a chance to regret going to a concert, even my first concert - Garbage, for their tour backing Version 2.0 - was pretty good. I think one of my worst concerts was a Korn concert, but not because of them, but because KeyArena in Seattle is a shitty place to play music in.