Forest @forestjohnson@pixie.town

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2dogs nap time at https://layerze.ro/

@aynish @pixouls @lucas

It would be fairly ez to add media purging to it. I imagined this thing could be made into a more general synapse admin panel but for now I'm happy to slowly add to it incrementally

Story about a problem we had with the cyberia.club matrix server and how I went.... just a *little* bit overboard on solving it :

https://sequentialread.com/matrix-synapse-out-of-disk-space-state_groups_state/

thank you matrix synapse for creating another 500 million rows in the state_groups_state table 🙏

Rude Dolf "the rednosed reindeer" Lundgren

@firewally this reminded me of the famous "bowl cut maintenance episode" ❤️ 🤙 ( different author )

@j3s

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@joepie91

This power imbalance used to exist with the written word. There was a scribal class who worked for the king / oligarchs / church and no one else could read and write. I see the programmers of today as a sort of modern-day scribal class.

But in the past, we did eventually reach mass literacy. It didn't mean that everyone became a linguist or studied calligraphy, but it did change the world dramatically. A lot of stuff had to change for that to happen. There was a sort of "meeting in the middle:"

On one hand, the written languages were dramatically simplified so they were easier to teach, easier & cheaper writing tools were developed,.

On the other hand, a lot of effort was put into education so young people would be trained enough to achieve a passable/legible fluency.

I don't know if the same thing can exactly happen with software, considering how much more complex computers are compared to written language, but I believe that something similar *can* happen, and just like with the history of mass literacy, it's going to require work on both sides: both education and simplification.

And like you mentioned, a good architecture for trust/transparency is going to help a ton when trying to apply this idea to computers and software.

@ariadne@treehouse.systems

> why bother with this network?

Because the pattern of allowing folks to participate without operating their own server is what has made fedi/matrix/etc an actual viable alternative to the twitters/discords/facebooks of the world. At least that's my take. It reduced the friction to the point where folks were actually willing to participate & as a result, real network effects were kick-started.

I wish software could fix systemic racism but I don't think any network software really can, it's up to the people using that network to make the most of it.

If I boost a post from treehouse.systems, can someone from whitefragility.net see my boost? Maybe I could change the software so that the boost button simply copy-pastes the post and posts it under my account with a "this is a boost of someone elses post" header and a link back to the original? That would allow important content, if not accounts themselves, to at least slightly "route around" things like this.

But folks usually see "route around" type of features as ban evasion / abuse vector? IDK.

This situation sucks, but I hope that it's not a representative sample of the whole picture. At least on my small little corner of the fediverse I see tons of people who are committed to platforming marginalized voices and more and more "mainstream" people, like those who recently came from twitter, who are beginning to listen or at least become aware that there's something they are missing. At least for me, that's slightly encouraging and I'm hopeful for the future. But also, I'm not an instance admin / I'm just white reply guy #759845. 🤷