lumpen 🍉 III (@scrum)

@jdp23 wow what a shit-show, yeah all that blocklist drama sounds very familiar, i bet KF took a lot of the things they learned playing fedi instances against each other and applied it to BS, and that goes to show if you do not remove the cancer of fascism immediately it will spread until it kills the host.

and yeah Eugene is just a problem, Mastodon team for years were promoting this idea that post controls were "impossible" with ActiviyPub which is obviously wrong, and there's a number of ways one can do it, just because something isn't in the spec doesn't mean anything, the spec is just a guideline, then there are things that are in the spec like Groups which Mastodon refuses to even talk about. I'm a big fan of the Zot protocol developed by Hubzilla as it both works with Activipub and handles things that are outside of the AP spec, like identity migration, privacy controls etc. It seems to answer a lot of the problems that AT claims to fix but is actually a decentralized foss project and not just vc vaporware. Problem is there isn't a formal Zot specification, and they seem to have very little funding, and a lot of young developers have a weird disdain for Php 😒