Moved: -> @People saying "Mastodon needs to include more marginalized people" to me just betrays a total lack of effort to even learn about who is working on the project. They assume if they say it's all cishet white men that they'll be right and saying to include marginalized voices is a generally agreeable thing to say to collect social capital and establish yourself as good when actually you're just being a jerk to unpaid trans women
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@offby1 Hypothetical question.
Let's say Alice follows me, and Bob follows Alice. When I toot, only Alice will see it (because she follows me). However, if she retoots my post, Bob _will_ see it. Correct?
@[email protected] I don't want feeds from anything except the people I follow though. I think for my restricted use case, that doesn't matter?
@sonya `fork` and `exec` are the two main commands that the OS gives you to manage which programs are running. Kind of
@sonya Everyone always wants to talk to the `exec`s. Nobody ever wants to talk to the `fork`s
Hypothetically, let's say I spun up my own Mastodon instance, and then I registered my own account on it, and then I froze registrations at just me. This way, I'd be hosting my own account but nobody elses'
Is this a really stupid idea? Does it break a bunch of mastodon features? Would it be a giant pain in the ass to run?
@sonya sup dawg i herd u like sincerity
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Look on these works, ye mighty, and despair https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/
Look on these works, ye mighty, and despair https://www.reddit.com/r/talesfromtechsupport/
@sonya It's ok though. If time flowed in reverse, morning sonya would do the same thing. So in one sense, you're even
@gled Using the blockchain still requires individual node operators to respect the blockchain. What mechanism do you have to deal with it when someone decides to just ignore it?
Bitcoin solves this problem by making the financial incentive strong enough that people don't ignore it (fork the chain). Where is the incentive here?