I've heard:

1) OStatus is going away in 2.0
2) OStatus isn't going away in 2.0, just follower-only posts to non-activitypub
3) nothing is changing

And whilst I don't think #3 is true, it's still very.. confusing, as an admin, and as someone who has to go tell people, "nothing of substance is changing" every time she sees it... which is a LOT.

It's a very positive thing for the fediverse, despite all the FUD and untrue rumours circulating.

But my God

On the Mastodon side, Gargron and his privileged inner circle should have done a better job at communicating. I would argue the communication is still somewhat lacklustre and confusing.

The GS and related fork side of things are... not much better at the communication aspect.

I grow sick of it all and just want this to be over with.

HINT: just because you skimmed the Communist Manifesto doesn't make you an expert on Socialism or Communism.

In fact, it puts you behind in a lot of ways.

It's 169 years old. It's older than the US civil war. It predates the Great Depression by 71 years. Capitalism has changed considerably since Marx's time, namely, the fundamental problems.

Much like Freud (btw the Manifesto is older than Freud), it's an old tome that should be considered historically important but not definitive anymore.

Nazi furs are unwanted and unnecessary subhuman trash who give furries a bad name.

They are a disgrace to the fandom, to themselves, and to the human race.

They are the reason aliens don't visit.

The vast majority of society hates your guts. The vast majority of the fandom hates your guts.

Other Nazis want to kill you. I sometimes hope they do.

Repent, or stop existing. There is no alternative in my book.

"Pasting n-gate content or generally talking about n-gate on "Hacker" "News" is a violation of the Prime Directive.

If you suspect someone might possess sufficiently advanced technology to consume n-gate content, please make first contact directly. Displaying n-gate directly to a Hackernews is like throwing a loaded gun into a zoo enclosure. It might seem like an obviously hilarious way to spend an afternoon, but it will eventually get us kicked out of the zoo. "

I thought for sure the total eclipse would be photogenic, like the environment, not just the sun.

It wasn't because the light dims but the white balance doesn't change, so everything just looks badly exposed.

In re totality, I wasn't set up to do a panorama, otherwise it just looks like dusk (it's just all around you). You also only have two minutes.

So if you're wondering why there aren't many pics of the environment during an eclipse, now you know.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2017/08/07/engineer-behind-google-anti-diversity-memo-reportedly-fired/547348001/

"However, portions of the engineer's manifesto violate the company’s code of conduct, crossing the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes, Pichai said.

“To suggest a group of our colleagues have traits that make them less biologically suited to that work is offensive and not OK. It is contrary to our basic values and our Code of Conduct,” he said."

lf my cybernetic arm gets ransomware I'm gonna be right pissed

I dread to think what we would do to an AI if it got an artificial disorder like schizophrenia or depression.

I'm sure it'll make our treatment of humans look positively civilised.

Also, I'm seeing the worst of tumblr culture being imported, that stuff is endearing to no one. There's genuinely believing in social justice, and then there's "social justice for brownie points."

@cwebber Thank you for enlightening me!

If you're serious about the whole "libre S3" thing how bout you make an alternative API that isn't controlled by Amazon and subject to their whims? If this exists I haven't seen it 👎

Also when you suspend instances?

Everyone on your instance who was following anyone from them?

*POOF*

Irrevocably gone.

This is why you need to think.

A bit of history about StatusNet/GNU Social: lots of them were founded by people running from very oppressive moderation. So they're obviously unhappy.

At the same time, Mastodon users are mostly people who've been hurt by /the lack of moderation/.

The two cultures are really colliding in bad ways now and the fighting is getting worse.

They're not happy we block instances, and we're not happy they take hands-off approaches.

But is defederating from each other the ideal solution? Prolly not.

So for OStatus, you gotta implement:

* Atom (RFC4287)
* WebFinger (RFC7033)
* ActivityStreams (http://activitystrea.ms/specs/atom/1.0/)
* Salmon (http://www.salmon-protocol.org/salmon-protocol-summary)
* Portable Contacts (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-smarr-vcarddav-portable-contacts-00)
* PubSubHubbub (http://pubsubhubbub.github.io/PubSubHubbub/pubsubhubbub-core-0.4.html)

And this is the glue: https://www.w3.org/community/ostatus/wiki/images/9/93/OStatus_1.0_Draft_2.pdf

I was an IRC daemon developer.

I saw how badly Balkanisation affected IRC. Stupid admin fights the user is forced to take sides on when they didn't ask for it.

It doesn't even matter who "wins." You've torn yourself asunder. You're in pieces now.

Every time that happens you weaken bit by bit by bit.

IRC admins didn't want to get along with each other for bullshit political reasons. Often as stupid as "my server protocol is better than your protocol."

Don't do this. This way lies madness.

TO OTHER ADMINS IN THE UNITED STATES:

If you have ANY users following ANYONE from this instance, at THE MINIMUM, purge your image caches IMMEDIATELY.

You are opening yourself to severe legal liability if you do not.

Safe harbour provisions have been ruled not to apply to moderated forums.

This legal climate is far too hostile not to take precautions.

The day I was hoping would never come has arrived.

I have suspended pawoo.net for users posting child porn, and no admin action has been taken despite repeated requests.

I know some of you oppose suspensions, but I have to take actions to protect us.

Merely having cached images from this instance could be a legal liability in the USA. In this hostile legal climate, I would prefer to err on the side of caution.

I sincerely apologise for needing to perform this drastic step.