I’m not sure how widely this is understood. It’s not that the chance of getting sick is actually low now, it’s that our leaders have decided that it’s time for us to just be cool with getting sick a lot now, and we’re all being socially pressured to act like it’s weird not to be.
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so if you're wondering why black twitter found bluesky more accommodating, the bluesky reps are (at least making an appearance of) actively listening to their concerns, while providing some of the tools they need (e.g. quote posts) from the very outset.
at the same time, mainstream mastodon:
* has no quote toots and not even a timeline to implement, despite existing implementations of the functionality being deployed elsewhere,
* has abysmal search functionality and nixed complete improved search implementation out of pure spite, because gargron is a spoiled manchild,
* has no way to share moderation burden across the instances,
* has no ability to set up an instance with blocklist/allowlists by default,
* the moderation interface is terrible, the tools are of abysmal quality, giving no way to communicate back to the original reporter using the very same interface,
* onboarding is a russian roulette,
* and to make it even worse, there's no way to move your content betwen servers, so every single time you choose your server wrongly, you lose all the work you put into it
…and in the general case mastodon admin and/or moderator is very, very white and very entitled.
(and every single time you say any of this, your voice is being drowned by the hooting of the fucking sea lions.)
while gargron's current priority is to provide dedicated mastodon ios apps. which should be, frankly, the least of his priorities.
FOSS licenses come in two approaches. The distinction is _who_ is granted the most freedom:
- in "copyleft" licenses the emphasis is on the end-user, ensuring that they are _always_ passed the four freedoms;
- in "permissive" licenses, the emphasis is on other developers/programmers, including allowing them to _not_ pass on the four freedoms.
Is disappointing people still mistake this as being a difference between #FreeSoftware and #OpenSource because each has always supported both types.
TL;DR: I'm going to leave Meta's social networking platforms (Facebook, Instagram) on June 16th, 2023. This website, byJP.me, will always show good ways to reach me and find out what I'm up to — please say hello if we haven't chatted in a while!
I'm pretty fed up of Facebook and Instagram. I barely use them, but when I do I binge, and end up feeling terrible afterwards. I'm familiar with how sites like these use data analytics to group humans into buckets according to the best ways to maximise dopamine release, and the percent of our day we spent on their sites/apps, and it makes me itch.
Jamie Tanna
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