amy tech (bones)Aug 12, 2025
Everyone who's been using github for over a decade who didn't listen when I said you were gonna get fucked: I'm sorry. I wish you hadn't.

But also: sourceforge did it a generation before. The future is not big centralized hosting. It's distributed. It's federated.
Show threadamy tech (bones)
I'm not trying to be smug it's just that I remember the big sourceforge-enfuckening and deliberately chose to host my own shit from there on out.

What we need is a way for everyone to actually control their fate collectively which does not involve us collectively running a non-profit forgejo.

Strangely the idea of "infrastructure as code" actually provides a good path here, if the UX of such an endeavor can be raised by an order of magnitude.

I'm not advocating self-hosting here. Think "group hosting" I don't know what's involved yet but there has to be a middle ground between "central point of failure for open source" and "a million tiny islands run variously on toasters and aws."
Aug 12, 2025 at 1:30amWeb
Show threadFather EnochAug 12, 2025

@amy

Between the time the muskrat "bought" twitter but didn't actually take charge, I, like other people, was looking around for somewhere to jump to.

I chose Mastodon not because it was "federated" (I didn't and probably still don't understand what that means), but because I saw a twitter thread from someone high up (I thought) in mastodon explaining they didn't host #rightwingers because "Nazis are bad."

Show threadamy tech (bones)Aug 12, 2025
@FatherEnoch who is "muskrat" ? I'm pretty sure it was Elon Musk who bought twitter.
Show threadFather EnochAug 12, 2025

@amy

That's him, the muskrat.

Show threadamy tech (bones)Aug 12, 2025
@FatherEnoch I call people by their names. I dislike cutesy names for evil people.
Show threadFather EnochAug 12, 2025

@amy

Well, I dislike giving narcissists the satisfaction of using their names, even to curse them.

So if the muskrat is "too cute," then my options are #AparthiedClyde or "Forty Five's Apprentice."