Joe DeanDec 4, 2022
A riff on #XKCD 1269, relevant to the #selfhosted #Mastodon #fediverse.
Show threadIvan Sagalaev Dec 4, 2022
@joe it's always funny how people who only got here in the last month make sweeping generalization about what life here is like :-)
Show threadJohn LuskDec 5, 2022
@isagalaev @joe
Well... based on my feed....
Show threadIvan Sagalaev Dec 5, 2022
@tarheel @joe it does take time to populate your feed with interesting people, true!
Show threadJohn LuskDec 5, 2022

@isagalaev @joe
I've seen a tremendous amount of meta-discussion, about the masto migration and performance issues, and CWs and ActivityPub and various rewrites and improvements, and performance tuning.

And politics and racism.

With a sprinkling of cat pics, programming-language and math and sci-fi tidbits and nature photos. Etc.

(Looking forward to the Great Rewrite, honestly.)

Show threadIvan Sagalaev 
@tarheel @joe I agree, those topics dominated for some time. But looks like it's subsiding. BTW, what's "the Great Rewrite"? :-)
Dec 5, 2022 at 6:34pmTusky
Show threadJohn LuskDec 5, 2022

@isagalaev @joe
The inevitable (I hope) move away from Ruby on Rails, along with the inevitable (I hope) improvements to ActivityPub, so that, for instance, pushing the same status update to 1,000 users on a remote instance doesn't require 1,000 network requests (as I understand it).

But, who knows, maybe a Twitter clone isn't what I (we?) want, so maybe it won't be a *rewrite*.