xXAnimePrincess69XxAnnouncing the public launch of of Open Torment, a FOSS alternative to The Torment Nexus.
I had a funnier wording for this joke in a dream but I forgot it
Seirdy@PearlescentFerret democratizing access to the torment nexus makes it okay
@[email protected] I'm excited about the new accessibility features we have planned
Evpraksia Revmira
@evpraksia @PearlescentFerret I love Perry Bible Fellowship so much. It’s like SMBC but with more subtlety, better art, and a less breakneck schedule.
@Seirdy both are quite good. the essences of both are pretty much always great. with smbc, i appreciate the volume of on-point thoughts from zach &co, and with pbf i adore the perfection of each piece by nicholas &co.
catraxx 
@PearlescentFerret Finally.
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cobweb 2026 edition@PearlescentFerret this is a great step towards decentralizing the Torment!
Ausir@cobweb @PearlescentFerret BitTorment
Steven Reedeager to connect my smartass to the intorment
jiub (old account)@PearlescentFerret what license is it under?
lucretia@PearlescentFerret finally, we can democratise torment, with equal access for everybody!
Andrew Feeney@lucretia @PearlescentFerret It’s the only way to ensure the world is safe from the Torment Nexus.
David Bremner@PearlescentFerret I hope it has permissive licensing to be friendly to our corporate overlords.
Ash_Crow@bremner @PearlescentFerret on the contrary, it's under GFDL 1.2 only and you have to manually add a PDF copy of it as attachment to each and every post
Tyrone Slothrop@PearlescentFerret About time, too.
You don’t need documentation because you’ve got a Discord channel, right?
@slothrop of course
noodle@slothrop @PearlescentFerret The real Torment Nexus was the Discord channels we made along the way
xmlns="Dan"@PearlescentFerret We love Open Torment so much we're going to integrate it in everything: your home, your workplace, your heart, thoughts, soul... Everyone should check out our new Torment Living Standard. Feedback is encouraged!
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial@PearlescentFerret funded by The Linux Foundation
@gsuberland and Mozilla
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Luna Lactea@PearlescentFerret that's just mastodon.social
Noah Cook@PearlescentFerret Of course, if Big Tech reinvents Hell, FOSS has to reinvent Purgatory, it just makes sense...
(Purgatory because I assume that the torment is inconsistent and unreliable and requires significant end-user support, and while there is a wiki, it will be written in three different languages by someone who only speaks a fourth, and that's just from the FOSS part without even getting into the Nexus itself, which is currently down for recompiling)
@UncivilServant
No wiki, all the info you need is on the discord.
YOu're not allowed to ask questions that have already been answered, you have to find thr answer by scrolling up... *FOR ETERNITY!*
No wiki, all the info you need is on the discord.
YOu're not allowed to ask questions that have already been answered, you have to find thr answer by scrolling up... *FOR ETERNITY!*
Jacob@PearlescentFerret ah yes, Free Open Source Suffering.
Site Reliability Enby🏳️⚧️🏁🔦📈🐺👗😷
eviloatmeal, resident Death Stranding 2 apologist (arch, btw)@PearlescentFerret It's AGPL. Any time you suffer, you must inflict that suffering back on the community.
#1 lighttpd fan@PearlescentFerret Open Torment sounds like a banger arena shooter
Daniel M Karlsson@PearlescentFerret [subtle chuckle through nose only]
Luka Rubinjoni@PearlescentFerret Torment Libre fork, doesn't depend in systemd
David Lejeune@PearlescentFerret TormentLabs(c) is based on a fork of Open Torment, but adds a host of requested features like: directly sharing your Torments to X and Threads, Improved Twitch Integration, and GivingFace(tm) facial recognition sign in powered by our proprietary AI facial recognition model.*
*by using GivingFace(tm), you grant TormentLabs, Inc exclusive, irrevocable rights to your face for all time throughout the universe.
Jeremy Nickurak@PearlescentFerret "I would never install OpenTorment" the js dev said, as they added a dependency that depended on a package that depended on a package that depended on OpenTorment. #webdev
Xilokar@PearlescentFerret
Oh, you're forking systemd ?
Oh, you're forking systemd ?
Adam Kent@PearlescentFerret Unfortunately the new name is too close to to the original so we have rebranded as "Open Tempeh Nexus"
Lunaphied@PearlescentFerret I've been using the Open Nexus implementation for so long and it's just nowhere near good enough, looking forward to the new project
Pseudo NymChangelog:
Added new Clippy-based, AI, ChatGPT, help agent. Fixed bug where user could opt out and turn him off. Updated avatar to be like old Clippy merged with the old BSD devil.
Tufty Indigo 🪗@PearlescentFerret Is it federated?
@PearlescentFerret Please torment this puppy to help my instance federate!
Nevkontakte@PearlescentFerret I heard Unreal Torment is a very trendy game among adults.
Diabetic HeihachiSo poorly written documentation full of empty pages and no links to supporting resources except for a ghosted discord server full of bread memes.
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🌸 lily 🏳️⚧️ 
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Glyph@PearlescentFerret @CatherineFlick anxiously awaiting the Debian Torture Aggregator which addresses numerous unresolved trademark issues with the use of ambiguously licensed Torment Nexus assets within OT
Mair@PearlescentFerret Open Torment sounds hot
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Mark T. Tomczak@PearlescentFerret You leave Gnumeric out of this. 😉
Jay@PearlescentFerret Actually, it's not a real alternative unless you host your own torment server powered by your own blood.
katzenbergerThat must be licenses-only - no working code, right?
🇵🇸 Álvaro González@PearlescentFerret Following Open Torment adquisition by Genocide Corp, community contributors launch LibreTorment fork.