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@angostura @lambadalambda @gargron @dredmorbius
Ok. I guess the text seems more clear when you know in advance what you want it to say. :-D
And in comparison with Wired, Verge, Motherboard etc it's a wonder of informativeness.
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@dredmorbius @lambadalambda @angostura Literally every other client on the network. @gargron adds his own extensions to a near-decade-old relatively stable protocol without conferring with other software authors whether it's a good idea, in particular ignoring the custodians of the dominant software, GNU Social and its derivatives.
There are instances out there that didn't update their software for years.
There is little reason to expect everybody else to follow someone going their own way. A model that used existing mechanisms, like the nsfw tag, and just added conventions to them, would have allowed users on non-Masto instances to adhere to the mastodon.social community's wishes, if they wanted to. Now it's simply impossible for them to make the choice, because it requires adding functionality to the software.
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@clacke otoh, >getting gnu to do anything they don't already want to do
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@reality People are open to evolving the network. The nsfw tag appeared as a convention only in the last few months, through discussion between various developers and admins.
In the meantime, Masto received its own, brand new mechanism. The tag may have been in response to this, I haven't cared enough to know any details.
/cc @moonman @maiyannah
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@clacke beware advocating the cathedral
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@reality The bazaar still allows us to talk to each other.
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@lambadalambda @gargron @dredmorbius @angostura Frontend support still needs to be implemented. Everybody is busy enough making these things more usable and everyone have their priorities.
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@angostura @lambadalambda @gargron @dredmorbius Sure thing! We've had several waves of newcomers lately and we're getting a bit exhausted. I'm sorry if we come off as a bit abrasive.
The main issue is that the shallow news coverage and the way that Masto is presented as its own thing isn't exactly educating people on how things work. There are several people working on or already having written pieces on the real background and how things fit together, but it's difficult to get the word out. I have written a thing on another network, but I'm not satisfied with it. I'm hoping to be able to push myself to put a better piece out the coming couple of weeks, but I'm currently super busy procrastinating other things. :-)
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@angostura Thanks for the offer. I'm just at a life-logistical stress point right now, I'll get around to it. I'll keep in mind to maybe bounce it off you when I do.
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@dredmorbius @lambadalambda @gargron @angostura Here's the best piece I've seen so far. Even though it's written by a newcomer, and I happen to disagree with much of the conclusion, it gets the background mostly right and hits on the right pain points.
https://hackernoon.com/mastodon-is-dead-in-the-water-888c10e8abb1
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@angostura I wrote a long comment on http://viewer.scuttlebot.io/%257dM2WU45jYchvv9royGNx%2FM0kECsBqhYYpa3STvIHPc%3D.sha256 that is mostly about #patchwork, but it puts #mastodon, #gnusocial and #ostatus in perspective, and those parts represent a fragment of what I would like to say in a longer post.
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@kodo I think you can search for them. Possibly you would need to unescape them.
In Patchwork Classic you just take your browser to http://localhost:7777/<the_urlescaped_thing> .
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*informativity