Pretty sure I’m right about:
RFC 3339 dates
ISO 216 paper sizes
Fahrenheit weather temperatures
Dot-grid paper
End-to-end encryption
Software engineering being about collaboration costs
There are dumber hills to die on.
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Rob Shearer
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@colinpurrington No; it's not some setting you have wrong. Mastodon's architecture is NOT to go and consult a "source of truth" to see someone's posts; it shows you the posts that happen to have propagated to your local server's cache. So if someone on your own server follows an account, then you will see (some?) of that account's posts.
It's a system built entirely from side-effects of technical choices, not user-focused product design.
@lashman @jplebreton @dangero I suppose the positive side is that it's a rare example of a service that fails at full decentralization but was never *completely* centralized by a single company. Gmail is a behemoth but the vast vast majority of traffic does not flow entirely within gmail. Enterprise systems that are closer to "internal traffic only" were never any threat to email as a whole.
@faraiwe None of that's on the About Me page. I can tell you're a very careful thinker.
@dangero @lashman @jplebreton Email has worked for 25 years because it got massive continuous investment for the 25 years before that, with a crazy array of protocol extensions to patch up the myriad problems with an architecture totally unsuited to the modern internet and lots of modern front-ends to try to make it usable for non-specialists.
Yet people still mostly hate email and nobody under 30 uses it for anything but work and maybe grudgingly keeping in touch with elderly family.
@light It won't. But.
@faraiwe Which part of the About Me page is most revealing of my imbecility?
@hal8999 It's fine. This was never a "side hustle"; just a lark. One that I have also received a bunch of very nice messages about. After certain disastrous political events, I receive a handful of "sometimes it means a lot to be reminded the sun will rise tomorrow" messages. And I feel a little guilty abandoning those people. But why on earth would I want to put up with the headache of injecting myself into a "community" that doesn't want me? A community whose identity is based on exclusion?
@hal8999 If you notice I'm called out by name in the issue I linked. Because that guy sent me an anonymous email—not just no Mastodon handle but not even a name, signature, or greeting—calling me an asshole and demanding that I change my bots immediately. I traded a half-dozen emails with this guy and he refused to give a name or explain what his interest was in this at all.
@hal8999 I know mastodon peeps get defensive about all this, and all I can tell you is that I don't harbor any real animosity. I picked an instance with an *explicit* policy of allowing bots, with *very* clear rules about how often they can post. I set up all the metadata, including making sure the *same* agent url was used on every post to allow filtering across all accounts. And then "we hate bots here, but we've avoided implementing even the simplest features for SEVEN YEARS, so f*** you"