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@ShadowJonathan@tech.lgbt the petition to end all petitions (literally)

The fediverse is a dark forest. Every instance is an armed hunter stalking through the trees like a ghost, gently pushing aside branches that block the path and trying to tread without sound. Even breathing is done with care. The hunter has to be careful, because everywhere in the forest are stealthy hunters like him. If he finds other life—another hunter, a shitposter or a sincereposter, a delicate liberal or a Hans from Stuttgart, a fairy or a dragn—there’s only one thing he can do: open fire and eliminate them. In this forest, hell is other people. An eternal threat that any life that exposes its own existence will be swiftly wiped out. 🧵​ (4/3)

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yeah i read The Dark Forest and you should too. also the 🧵​formatting was done purely for comedic effect

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Any federating instance would view any other as an inevitable threat, and thus destroy any nascent life that makes its presence known.

As a result, the fediverse would be relatively silent, without evidence of any intelligent alien life, as in a "dark forest" filled with "armed hunter(s) stalking through the trees like a ghost" 🧵​(3/3)

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Consider the following axioms:
- All instances desire to stay alive.
- There is no way to know if other instances can or will destroy you if given a chance.
- Lacking assurances, the safest option for any instance is to annihilate others before they have a chance to do the same. 🧵​(2/3)

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Suppose a vast number of instances distributed throughout the internet, on the order of the number of observable domains. Lots and lots of them. Those instances make up the body of a federated society. Federated Sociology is the study of the nature of this super-society🧵​(1/3)

maybe i should split that big toot up into a (1/3) thread, as a bit

uni 

this course, and the assignment focus on improving diversity/inclusivity is great, but the more general lectures about design methods are abysmally boring and very superfluous

@maloki yeah, maybe it also helps with staying/spreading awareness without getting totally hopeless

@ghost_bird right, I think NL and the EU have that too, at least they're forced to shortly bring it up during some meeting

@maloki maybe? personally i wouldn't be inclined to give a petition more reach than general info about the topic, and I feel like petitions can lay the trap of "i signed, so i helped, so i don't have to do anything else"

has a petition ever changed anything? all the examples i see just coincide with wider attention to the issue, signed or not

uni 

there's some irony in a course that partly focuses on neurodiverse inclusivity having boring lectures at 8:45am...

We gave our docs pages a lick of paint (and a material theme). What do you think?

https://docs.gotosocial.org

ORANGE :go_to_social: 🍊 :gtspat:

anyone with cashmoney wanna fund gotosocial enough to hire me fulltime? 👀

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