fun how the gargron library for blurhashes broke mastodon going from ruby 3.0.5 to 3.0.6
Well. I've just learned a couple of things about the #Matrix spec and its process that are giving me serious concerns about the long term.
I'm refraining from sharing details here right now, because they would be extremely easy to misinterpret, and it's not an immediate problem to worry about.
However, I do think that it's time to start seriously thinking about forking the protocol, and I've created a room for talking about this: #fork:pixie.town
If you're interested in working on this (as a developer, as a technical writer, as a spec designer, or something else), then please join the room!
However, it's important to recognize that such a spec fork will impact many existing communities and developers, and so breaking compatibility is not to be taken lightly. If possible, it should be avoided.
So if you feel like burning everything down and starting over, this is probably not the project for you. Also, I do expect everybody *not* to harass Matrix core folks over this.
If those things are not an issue for you, then please join!
Instance admins are often targeted by the instances they block, with the admins of the toxic instances emailing them straw man arguments and sealioning questions meant to have them question their decisions and trick them into thinking they're being unfair.
As I'm often asked for advice with how .art deals with these shitheels, in the next toot I'm going to provide a simple guide that anyone can use the next time the disingenuous admin of Another Toxic Instance emails them.
I've been an admin here since 2017
And I've been banging the "defederate from bad instances" drum the whole damn time
And all you fuckers over at handwringing dot social or pearlclutchers dot online have been telling me that I'm bad for blocking them because I'm being alarmist or a HOA or whatever
Well now there's a whole academic paper about the CSAM (child abuse sexual material) on instances that we already knew were shitty
Anyway, block the bad instances, they're not that hard to spot
@mxdragon some self-promo, think we got some nice kits that also offer a very pretty end result https://www.tindie.com/stores/tilde/
might be slow to ship with holidays (hacker camps) rn
I would never get Fyre-fested, because I have enough shit with me to last an entire month
like, if there were some kind of industry that was being run by real demons from hell it wouldn't be a sexy night club or a bar or something, it would be a uhaul car rental agency
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if i don't know you from elsewhere (under same nick), shoot me an introductory DM first (following back is fine)
I do anarchist tech stuff and run free services at https://pixie.town
I program, solder rgb led thingies, and fly fpv quadcopters
en: they/them
nl: die/dies (langzaldieleven.nl)
“i don't trust like that”
not a furry, actually
Extreme coffee-out-of-a-wineglass Energy
something something trans list stop scraping bios
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