Save us Abobo!

Yeah, let’s have the blackbox next word guessing machine making decisions, why not?

On the one hand you’re getting someone else to make full payments on your mortgage. On the other hand, it’s your sole property and the only way you could maintain ownership of it. You weren’t profiting over cost, or collecting money from the renters that would go to maintenance (the only actual service/labor that landlords perform). Your choices were practical, not profitable. At least less profitable than you might think. Profitable to the minimum that the system required for you to keep your one home. Short of a revolution where all mortgages are zeroed out, it sounds like you did the best you could.

Devs using Discord instead of forums perplexes me as much as it annoys me. It’s just the wrong tool for the job.

How does one even get on a private server these days? (Feel free to DM)

Keep it off the Internet and don’t update the firmware

Co-ops and collectives can help bridge the gap between management interest and worker interest.

I’d also suggest authentication by key file.

Does Grayjay get around region restrictions?

He can’t chudpost every time, but I’ve listened to him talk with an open mind before and in my opinion his occasional insights are overshadowed by his self-important whinging.

Your rant is 100% sensible and/or valid and/or based or whatever one says these days.

If a user wants their own echo chamber, let them cultivate it themselves. The hosts should not decide for them, and the choice to defederate should be based on practical/material/legal concerns only.

To me the biggest issue with federated platforms is defederation: deliberately breaking interoperability.

Like, imagine if email servers (the original federated network) blocked whole domains as aggressively Mastodon or even Lemmy servers do? It never would have worked.

I mean, I hate BlueSky too, but I think the reason it’s more popular than Mastodon is that it’s more centralized and in practical terms that means it’s easier to adopt and engage with.

The biggest headache I have with Mastodon (and Lemmy, to a lesser extent) is defederation. I understand it’s the most practical thing to do sometimes, but it’s waaay overdone. Like, there needs to be a culture of only defederating as a last resort due to pratical concerns (e.g. bots I guess). Unfortunately the current culture is one where many instance admins treat defederation as a personal blocklist. I wish more admins would leave it to individual users to decide who to allow or not.

It still needs polish, but the biggest deficit is lack of adoption.

Platforms like Twitter encourage casual breaks between public and private space, but Facebook-like platforms are better for passively extending existing friendship circles. Or so it seems to me.

Yep.

I get the reasoning behind the photographer having the rights to photos, but it just doesn’t sit right that the human subject of those photos has no rights at all.

Yeah I feel like there needs to be a huge asterisk by name declarations that, while formal/official in the barest sense, are blatantly arbitrary.

Literally no one ever called it “Gulf of America” until January. I appreciate the generally thoughtful conversation on OSM, but there’s no reason that declaration should be taken seriously.

It’s come (cum?) true: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErgXG--UcAE0pGw?format=jpg&name=small

I agree that defederation is vastly overused, and simple account migration should be a priority.