@openrisk @Steve_Bate @rakoo

Yes, totally. The tech is only supportive and facilitating. I think there's a proper uptick in the general social engagement of people and politics in society, driven and motivated to counter the multitude of dire challenges we face today that can no longer be ignored.

As for the angst on the atmosphere, in my perception this is more a worry about mass adoption and 'scale for the sake of scale', the way traditionally tech is pushed, with growth-hackers mentality and all that. It has the higher commercial attention and is most likely to face corporate takeover. Serves as a lightning rod to keep fedi in the shade for longer time so it can mature healthily :)

Fediverse evolves on more natural ebbs and flows, not exponential engagement metrics, and that is a good thing. It will help resilience and give 'staying power'.

OTOH a threat for fediverse is its dominant focus on the microblog at the core of the social network. Course correction is imho needed here.

polyrhythmic Euro house

@paul been legit contemplating this for months. Was going to build out a stupid v100 rig but decided against it in favor of Macs and then just haven’t pulled the trigger yet. Would heavily follow your posts if you were given a review unit 🙌❤️

@Edent @abeorch

You two made me curious what you both were talking about. 😄

https://openactive.io/modelling-opportunity-data

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@elvecio But the post is not about that. The details you're referring to are not particularly relevant.

@fesshole

RIP your farts.

I've been extra gassy these days due to something I ate that disagreed with me, so I'll make sure to dedicate all of them to you from now on.

This shit cost 2 trillion dollars btw.

if you're using pleroma-fe on SPW, probably just hard-refresh, I gave a bunch of your bugs to the slop machine, told it to isolate the commit that caused it, then audit every commit around those commits, and it fixed a bunch of bugs before they happen.

@stefano This is the problem when engineers have been given the keys to the castle..

Engineers only think about what a technology DOES, not about to WHO does it do it for.

And these new engineer-kings have reduced any sense of morality to game-theoretic utilitarian equations, for which they hold a religious creed.

But being engineers, they never see their humanity, not one bit. And their models don’t count it in you or me either.

@Drarok @TimWardCam Writing them down in a notebook is not a horrible idea, and IMHO it's one of the least risky approaches.

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@lowqualityfacts
I really want to curse him out, but Mastodon wouldn't like that.

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In that case, have at it!

And thank you so much, what a kind comment to find :)

@passthejoe
I don't understand. They're building it like a local thing?

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