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Yeah, the irony is not lost on me!

Early on in the life of software I think a faster pace of development makes sense, when the software is less complex and there are fewer affected users. I think most Piefed users accept that they are very much using software that is still in active development.

Mastodon, on the other hand, is used by people who consider it to already be mature. A large number of people and organizations depend on it. Personally I trust it with the only actively maintained social media account I have in my real name. Moving too fast and making mistakes could have pretty fatal consequences there.

There are features I would like to see implemented as well - I think proper quote posts will be nothing but a huge improvement - but I appreciate that the developers are taking their sweet time making sure to get it right. And if Piefed reaches a million active users I expect its developer(s) to do the same.

I’ve been using Linux half my life, I have my own Email server, I avoid centralized social media and I hate Outlook with a passion.

I have two active accounts there.

If I recall correctly it just doesn’t scale well, and starts performing poorly as the user count goes up.

Personally I prefer Mastodon. In the end there’s only three dimensions: Security, performance, and personal preference.

I’m happy with how Mastodon is being run. Move fast and break things kan kiss my ass. Move slowly and don’t suck.

I’d consider Bolzano. You’d get by with German, and you get to live in a beautiful part of the arguably most beautiful country of Europe.

In Germany? You’ll be fine, they’re very aware of the threat of antisemitism but it’s not any worse than elsewhere.

Now, whether German culture is enjoyable is another question.

Israeli politics have been fucked for a long time. Netanyahu has always been a dangerous extremist, and the fact that people repeatedly voted for him speaks volumes for the political culture.

If by Eastern Europe you mean Belarus and Hungary, maybe.

You’ll never be anything less than what you are, but that’s a strength. Just speaking two languages well already puts you at an advantage. The experiences you have of seeing the cultures in relation to each other also gives you an edge.

Sometimes it’s nice to be able to just blend in, but life is all about learning and gathering experiences and impressions, and you have a head start. It might not always be easy, but you’ll learn to appreciate it.

And as long as Poland is in the EU I’d much rather have a Polish passport than an English one.

But at the receiving end you’ll have a talented backend developer who has created something impressive, and who instead of being recognised and motivated for her work just receives a bunch of shit about the UX being awful. Which is not great either.

It’s a tricky thing to get right.

Open source culture remains the biggest problem with open source software, sadly.

At least he seems to be enjoying it, embracing the creative process and developing whatever he’s interested in. Seems like a pretty healthy approach.

I’m pretty sure Dansup is at least 40 senior developers in a trench coat. It makes no sense how many quality projects this guy manages to develop and maintain.

Off the top of my head:

• PixlFed
• FediDB
• PubKit
• Loops
• Sup

Absolutely. There’s a small handful of sites full of insufferable stalinists. Thank god I didn’t discover Lemmy when I was 14, I might have been swallowed right up.

Just block those instances, your experience will be better immediately. And don’t hesitate to block individual users, even if they’re not breaking any rules or anything. Finding something to be annoying is plenty of reason not to want it as part of your internet experience.

Fair point, would be an incredibly easy vector for abuse in any other way. Good thing I’m not a software engineer.

Curious - would boosts from users on non-blocked servers bypass the block here? In other words, does traffic for boosts go via the original instance, or is it direct between the boosting and the receiving servers?

Obviously they won’t give too much of a shit and they’re not going to send any mail, they’ll just block the server like they would anyway. They are, however, going to be annoyed to be treated as insignificant nobodies. So all in all not a bad idea.

Courts, traditionally.

Let’s see how the lawsuits work out.

I think this is a great idea, and something that should probably be incorporated in a wide variety of ActivityPub integrations.

I know at least Funkwhale already includes license information - maybe it could be integrated in a way that is compatible with how it’s solved there?

The advent of AI has illustrated quite clearly that nobody cares, but that doesn’t make it less legally binding at least in theory.

If you post content clearly marked as CC BY-NC, you can at least be damn sure any use by commercial actors would be illegal.