Vegetable Gremlin ⍼👻Madness period mastodon had people absolutely livid about how they had better definitely never include this feature or that feature because folks got convinced that it was software options that made people insufferable rather than for example "being people" made people insufferable
St Woke of Pronouns@vegetablegremlin i'm sure we'll have a resurgence of that stuff once eugen opens the quootgates
@glencoe is that like on deck or in the cards at all it seems like its been years since that was even floated and everyone wailed, gnashed teeth etc
@vegetablegremlin yeah they got quoots a couple weeks ago on dot social and dot online.
Looks alright but it's only on servers that have the latest mainline masto and have enabled it, so uptake is slow afaict.
@vegetablegremlin seems like they addressed most of the issues people had with the idea tbh, but ofc eugen is still getting yelled at by everybody lol
anna, a criticality incident at the gender accelerator@glencoe @vegetablegremlin one of the lesser volleys in the "pleroma is nazi software" wars was that it (well, akkoma anyway) has had quoteposts for years now lol
@anna @vegetablegremlin i remember seeing that as a reason, just straight up 'pleroma' no explanation on some of the fediHOA shitlists we're all on lol
@glencoe @vegetablegremlin i see how it happened because i was a stupid asshole for a couple days that saw some bad pleromas but then i listened to the people yelling at me and realized i was being a stupid asshole. more people should do that when they're yelled at for being a stupid asshole imo
@glencoe @vegetablegremlin i had a lot of worries about KF stalking and activitypub being leaky that well, yeah, it is, do not post anything you're not ok with being public forever on the fedi, but it didn't pan out quite like i feared because i didn't realize the chud/"free speech" corners of the fediverse, while they suck and will be gross if they can reach you, won't go out of their way to fuck with you if you defed. they've been here longer than mastodon--and activitypub--has even existed and have their own thing going on. even the KF instances seem to mostly be into posting questionable anime porn and nazi memes and tfw no gf crap at each other. to use the parlance du juor, they are drinking at their nazi bars and are more or less staying there