Notices by NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social), page 10

Promoted to the NEET master race

I'm surprised there are workplaces that require Discord. Are you for real? That sounds beyond unprofessional.

What does it do?

I have a countervailing point to this that might serve as a white pill. Unlike centralized services, federated services are resilient to company shutdowns or annoying policy changes. Email is a great example of this. Even if the top ten email providers shuttered all at once, everybody would scramble to get a new email address on whichever rinky dink email host they could find. Once you're in email, you never leave it.

So too is the case for fedi. Once someone is on fedi, they never leave fedi, not really. There are, of course, exceptions to this, but the overall point is that entrenchment in fedi is more permanent than entrenchment on Twitter or Facebook. It's a lot more intractable. And fedi instances falling won't make fedi users stop using fedi. It will make them just find new instances.

This places these social media companies in a real pickle. Once they alienate users and they eventually find their way onto fedi, that's it. They're not coming back, not really, except maybe as throwaway accounts to come ridicule their retarded users.

Basically, I'm of the view that gradually, it will reach a critical mass, and that will be that.

I'm on the blocklist, too

They're probably going much further by using a whitelist

Is that a basis for not doing real attributions to contributors?

I know I just said that I wouldn't work with them, but as a gesture of good will I will submit fixing their federation: https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/-/merge_requests/4000

It lists where I got the information from, who wrote the original commit, and why it's important per ActivityPub standards. They can click merge or they can let their shit stay broken lol

Very low.

I got accusatory and even rude right off the bat when Lanodan came right out the gate with "um we won't touch this until after you totally rewrite it in this completely arbitrary way" and I'm feeling quite vindicated with that disposition now. These people have a need to be oblique about their actual intentions and I've learned, over the years, how to suss out what things are really about.

Muh standard is a pretext at best. Not only does Pleroma not care about the standard, but I bet if I cherry-picked @alex 's commit and tried to submit it to Pleroma with maybe rewriting the commit message to "better ActivityPub spec conformity" or something like that, it wouldn't get accepted. Even if I directly supported it with the spec's actual exact words.

@hj didn't want to merge my commit that includes the url field for scrobbling based on a misreading of the ActivityPub spec. The url field can be any representation of the Audio document, like a page about the document or an audio file, or, yes, a web page that streams the audio file. He insisted on me putting the user-submitted YouTube/SoundCloud/whatever URLs into externalLink for reasons.

It's farcical. I'm unlikely to try to work with these people again.

False dichotomy.

Using this logic I don't get to choose at all unless I also get to choose what their friends use.

I would never subject a child to fedi

Actually it’s pretty trendy in this neighborhood to do exactly what I describe and tell local kids to just go touch grass, pretty much literally. Forces them to play outside with their actual peers irl, not some tranny trying to get them on HRT

I’m leaning toward not letting them online at all. But I’ve got a couple years to think about this before my first will be born, so. Who knows what my views will be by then.

TERFs are fun because they piss trannies off, but if spinster.xyz is any indication, their politics are otherwise total garbage. In a lot of ways they made their bed with this stuff and now they have to lie in it.

Fuck taxes