but imagine you’ve just gotten use to living on a moss planet over the past 40 million years, and now all of a sudden you walk outside and all the moss is gone
Yep. They all pretty much just jack with the flag.
Especially if it is at someone else’s expense so they can get a rush off of subjugating defenseless civilians and leading off sadistically with the enslaved, risking nothing in their hidden-bunker cowardice.
"guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism"
George Washington (led insurrection against tyrant empire) farewelladdress.org
I don’t think ActivityPub is hard to implement, actually. It’s fairly specific JSON with a weird structure, but that structure isn’t hard to implement.
It does come with an oversight, though; the protocol doesn’t define how to ensure activities propagate to every server. That’s why following a Lemmy community from Mastodon will spam your feed with boosts, and why Mastodon instances all have different amounts of comments and likes on them. Some other things are also underspecified (like how to propagate creates through boosts, are those two events of is boosting a create enough?). These can use some fleshing out.
One thing that’s definitely underspecced is the client-server API. It’s practically impossible to take the spec and write a client for a C2S server that’s also built around the spec, because crucial things like “authentication” simply aren’t specified. Very few servers bother to implement C2S and even fewer of those cover more than the bare basics.
At some point I tried setting up a sort-of-tumblr clone by combining Fedibox with a C2S client, but I found it impossible to set everything up properly, and no other backends seemed to provide more than a basic C2S implementation. There’s potential there, but it’s hard to do it without an opinionated take on the spec that I feel shouldn’t be necessary.
They do describe well how “I post something on your timeline” works, but details on “someone else boosted a like on my timeline and I want to inform your server” isn’t as clear.
Lemmy posting boosts of every single activity to every following server is one way to get every server synchronised, but it feels a little like abusing side effects rather than using the protocol as designed.
Unless two instances had the exact same set of servers they’re federated with then I wouldn’t expect any given content to have the same number of likes/comments/etc when viewed from different instances.
You know what, the high arctic probably looks similar to that prehistoric moss-covered landscape. Because moss is pretty much the only thing that can survive there (and some very small plants).
Indie game studios still make them. So does Nintendo. They didn’t die. It’s just AAA game studios turned their budget to making blockbuster level games with shit tonnes of micro transactions in order to make more money because unfortunately they make more money and are generally more popular.
Validation for beliefs like all human beings are the same by asking a question where that is included as some kind of truth? That kind of validation? Is this question sarcastic?
Deer hunting season begins in less than two weeks. Depending on exactly where you found it, it could very likely be a poached deer’s discarded guts. This is common in rural areas. And, people tend to hide human bodies a bit better than in a bag on the side of the road.
I’m usually on mobile and don’t check what instance a given post is from, I usually only find out it was ml by getting hateful DMs from teenagers and/or getting banned several days later
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