Please, if you respect and love the availability of ad-free and spy-free services, don't bring your sysops to their knees to ask for donations to keep your favorite services online.
@graf had to remind people that his network of services wouldn't make it unless he got a day job, and he caught a lot of heat - and love - as a result. But I hate to watch him come to that point, because it could just as easily be me.
Well, actually, it kinda is us. NHTB survives because of the love we have for our little community, and our fallen brother (no, he's not dead) Illuminazi paid for it out of his pocket for years, and @thomaslewis before that as well.
While on the other hand, misskey.io is rumored to have raked in $10k recently. A Japanese instance, and since I can't read moonrunes anymore, I don't know what they're talking about. But they really got quite the boost from whatever caused their instance to get flooded suddenly.
Friends, this isn't about me, or graf, or japs, this is about the preservation of our communications infrastructure. This is about the love for our White brothers and sisters. This is about preserving your mind and sanity - such as it is - by providing services that aren't there to specifically target your hormones and make you the product. This is about excising the ghosts of Edward Bernays and Sigmund Freud from our technology, so that we can have a healthy future, hand-in-hand with these technologies.
Please, if you can, donate gladfully to the sysops running the services you use. If you can't, try to encourage others who can to do the same. I would even appreciate your fervent prayers in our case, for the strength and resolve to keep this wagon going, however we can. Please, I beg of you, don't make me, my friends or compatriots beg for donations.
@af2@thomaslewis@graf The fediverse doesn't have that kind of business model. And truly, that business model is utterly destructive to the consumers. It kills my brothers and sisters.
We have to change this. People spend upwards of $100/month on individual streaming services making media that intentionally targets us to force our hand into their favor. Get rid of Disney+, and pay your Sysop with it instead. graf and I host peertube instances, for example, and there's an incredible amount of content available out there.
@silverpill I'd say to stick to the run external program bit, rather than implementing a WASM handler to handle it. Gives users the option to use anything implemented by anyone, and it's already working really well for the nostr relay strfry, paired with @alex's strfry policy.
@coin@parker@parker doesn't block uploading them, just blocks downloading them (blocking uploading them would require hacking the frontend, edit: or finding a way to block the backend from allowing them to be uploaded at all, since you could upload it without using a frontend at all)
@parker@SpaceElf@parker@graf I think for our installations, we can simply drop the access-control-allow-origins and access-control-allow-credentials headers?
@PinochetsCommieCopter fuck, thank you for letting me know pinochet, just called my family up there (that I never call because they all hate me) to make sure they're nowhere near there
@WashedOutGundamPilot@professionalbigot69 I will tell you personally, from a decade and a half of experience: No, you can not, will not, must not play Captain Save-A-Ho with these broads. They are so utterly broken, that they will turn around and break you, with your own compassion and sympathy.
No, with these types, you MUST write them off entirely. She acts just like every woman I dated from a broken home (jk, they were all fatherless, because I was a fucking dumbass). Thanks to all of them, my childhood dream of living an unexciting and uneventful life with a wife, kids and property, were utterly destroyed. As a result, I had to remake myself.
I'm much happier outside of romantic entanglements now. "I miss having sex, but at least I don't want to die anymore, and I think that's pretty cool."
@alex@PhenomX6@triodug Move it into docs ASAP, Alex. I ran a pg_repack on my Akkoma install, and it completely eliminated the gross seq scans in my objects table.
I do have a question about indexes, but I'm just not bothered enough to remember to ask it.
@silverpill Let's not get ahead of ourselves. ActivityPub has a boatload of problems, man. It's a multimedia interface, which brings with it the complexity of dealing with that. Nostr seems very specifically a microblogging platform. It's a glorified, web3 partyline. With that level of simplicity, I'm pretty sure trying to make it a standard would get in the way of its adoption.
The ActivityPub network, such as it is, is dominated in this space by Mastodon, a gigantic silo of 1.8 million registered users. Look, the fact is, these things follow a pattern of 80% of the users being handled by the top 20% of the sites.
I'm rooting for it, personally. It's rapid, reckless progress, but it's gotta be done.
Although, the "cryptobro culture" of nostr is fucking :blobvomiting:
@WashedOutGundamPilot@Nou@Sugizo >You were acting like I’m parroting a media narrative, I’m saying I routinely, consistently hear women 18-45 whining about how guys aren’t flirting, asking them out on “real dates”, and aren’t even hanging out after work anymore.
It's dangerous to do so. Not that their opinions or ideas matter, but it matters enough that it's been put into law. It's simply illegal to be attracted to a woman that isn't attracted to you. And it may even become illegal at some point to refuse a woman attracted to you. If you call that hyperbole, give it 6 years. If we're not a National Socialist country by then, that will be next.