Ralph Waldo Pickle ChipsAug 8, 2019

Pleroma seems to just keep getting more bloated and every time I see something new I become more and more tempted to just write my own minimal AP server à la Honk.

“ephemeral posts… so we can build Stories”

“video and voice calling are on the horizon”

like, seriously?

Show threadmichcioperzAug 8, 2019
@shadowfacts i think people want ephemeral posts for just being ephemeral actually
Show threadRalph Waldo Pickle ChipsAug 8, 2019

@314 I can at least see the reasoning for ephemeral posts, but then there’s stuff like LDAP, and stickers, and other stuff that I’m forgetting

and I just miss when software was simple and it was enough for it to do one thing well

Show threadmichcioperz
@shadowfacts i don't suppose i ever thought of pleroma as the simple or the unixy, but rather as the speedy and the bending spoon
Aug 8, 2019 at 6:03pmWeb
Show threadmichcioperzAug 8, 2019
@shadowfacts as for software being simple and doing one thing well, i also fail to remember those times
Show threadRalph Waldo Pickle ChipsAug 8, 2019

@314 maybe

but it still feels like pleroma’s doing way more than it needs to

like, are there people who really want video chat over AP but won’t build a separate thing?

which is more important, video chat in pleroma or letting people view posts when JS is disabled?

it feels like the priorities are way out of whack

Show threadmichcioperzAug 8, 2019
@shadowfacts this reminds me of my today's visit to #revolutionirc on freenode where someone was subtly annoyed that @MrARM was focusing on other projects instead of adding more features to Revo
like, Revo has a working viable product, from my point of view the things that are left to do are nice-to-haves
Show threadmichcioperzAug 8, 2019
@shadowfacts maybe ideally a socnet server would be speaking only s2s apub and c2s apub, and would have pluggable frontends that would speak c2s apub and whatever they want
maybe
but maybe that's not a viable way to develop
Show threadRalph Waldo Pickle ChipsAug 8, 2019

@314 that would work, but honestly, if I were just building something for myself, it would be hyper-specific to my needs

like with my blog, the trade-off of specificity saves me a lot of architectural complexity

Show threadmichcioperzAug 8, 2019
@shadowfacts yeah I did a lot of working around Hugo static site generator's inner design recently