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Your periodic reminder that government petitions are absolutely useless. Yes, even the ones that promise it'll be discussed in parliament or whatever. It'll be superficially "discussed" for 5 minutes and then discarded, to tick the box.

The real purpose of government petitions is to redirect people's anger about harmful policies to an "accountability sink" - something that *looks* like accountability, but really only serves to satisfy people emotionally and sweep the issue under the carpet.

TL;DR: You'll feel like you've "done something", so you won't be an actual threat to the government's position anymore.

You create change by organizing and *demanding* it, with whichever degree of severity is necessary to get there. Not by asking for it.

And calling it externalities as though it's just a little minor quirk of an otherwise logical system is part of the gaslighting. It **is** the system, because racialized and economic power and privilege gets to determine what "counts" and what (or who) doesn't.

Yields per acre are so much higher and thus production costs so much lower with synthetic nitrogen fertilizer. Except for the dead zones in the oceans. Except for the loss of fishing livelihoods in the dead zones. Except for the reliance on distance sources of fertilizer.

You can make anything look efficient and profitable if there is a social compact to not count some of the costs.

Ah yes this fossil fuel stuff is so energy dense & so cheap. Except for the undrinkable water. Except for the acid rain. Except for the air pollution (and thus the asthma, premature birth and dementia). Except for the wars over it. Except for the climate change. Except for the roads needed to use it to move around. Except for the parking needed for the stuff needed to use the roads

GoToSocial (so far) has been trying to maintain compatibility with the Mastodon API, to maximize the number of clients compatible with our ActivityPub server implementation. The Mastodon "base" API implementation is still underway (e.g. we're missing lists), but we have been aware of the fact that maintaining API compatibility with all future features would forever have us in a state of "catch-up".

Given recent announcements about the direction that Mastodon development is being taken, and our own fears about the future of the Mastodon project, we are declaring a cut-off point. GoToSocial will only be attempting to maintain Mastodon API compatibility up to the current stable version, that is, v4.1.2.

Now this does not mean that we will never implement future features of Mastodon, it just gives us more flexibility in exactly what and how we implement things, especially when it comes to the more ethically complex ones (looking at you, search!).

@deadsuperhero he shouldn't need to be forced and people harmed in order for these changes, somebody with that power in the architecture of a theoretically infinite social space should pre-empt or listen to people pre-empting these situations before they become situations. This is definitely the "too little too late" network for so long as it's one guy at the top is calling all the shots based on whatever works for him. None of this is new problems

Quote posts and broader search capabilities here without more effective privacy and moderation tools being delivered first will be insufferable very quickly. You can search for this toot and quote me on that later.

You know what *really* pisses me off about Eugen's announcement?

That he *knows* that this is a sensitive topic, and yet he couldn't be fucked to include any details about whether it will, for instance, respect consent.