Notices by NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social), page 28

And what are the consequences of them doing this, aside from me not seeing their dumb remarks? I put in a PR to fix it and I bitched about it for about half a day but this isn’t exactly a hill to die on and I’m not sure why you’re making it into one.

Why do we need to sanitize FSE’s malformed HTML to make sure that it doesn’t say “POO POO PEE” or hide the entire message or whatever other stupid shit Pete comes up with? It’s not 1995 anymore so he can’t make my CD-ROM drive open and close anymore because I don’t have one, so this is the shit he’s resorting to.

I mean why is he marking the entire post as hidden in the first place? Maybe don’t do that.

Well, my personal fork of Soapbox still accounts for this exact scenario but the PR got rejected, Pete lifted the stupid exploit, and now none of it matters. Any further malding about this amounts to Asperger’s.

It’s like an exploit or something, and Pete turned it off.

Especially if you not only don’t fix it, but refuse to let somebody else fix it for you.

You should do what you can to ensure that your FE works no matter what gets thrown at it. I’m not sure why this is a controversial take.

Yeah but this bug is so mild. It’s in the “all fun and games” level. It’s easy to fix, causes no permanent damage, and really, isn’t any kind of massive own unless you do shit like refusing to let other people patch it to fix it. It’s the equivalent of someone throwing a pie in your face on YouTube.

https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/soapbox/-/merge_requests/2657

Alex actively shut me down for trying to fix the bug. He closed the PR.

The retards it’s filtering are FSE users. It literally makes what you say go away.

So again, what’s the own? “My instance doesn’t work on Soapbox and Akkoma”?

@alex Are you convinced at this point that ActivityPub and other similar federation systems are irreparably inferior to things Nostr?

Yeah I feel all of that. I think another thing is the fact that culturally, the fediverse has been completely swallowed up by instance and federation drama. Who defederates who and why and when and this and that. It dominates both sides of fedi, the Mastodong troon side where they have these massive lists of wrongthink instances, and the Balormo rightoid side of fedi where instance admins each have their own style on how they handle it, and everybody needs to have an opinion on how every instance admin moderates every instance.

My complaints about it actually aren’t the technicals. Really, it works. The technicals are fine and I think that complaints about them are misguided for this reason. Email works. It functions, in spite of its flaws. But the truth is, the culture is garbage. I see the technical argument for Nostr over ActivityPub trivially.

The bigger problem I see in both Nostr and Fedi is cultural. Both have a very limited window of topics you can discuss and get any traction in. Fedi is dominated by idpol (left and right, depending on which side of it you’re on), anime tits, and tech sperging. Nostr is dominated by crypto wank, cybersecurity wank, and actually I can’t even think of a third topic that gets discussed on it much. I can’t say I’m entirely above it, but every time I try to get into the weeds on anything outside of these topics I get nowhere.

I think the limited scope issue – a cultural, not technical, issue – is the true Achilles heel of these decentralized services. And I think the solution to that is to, somehow, get people who have something to say other than “it’s da jooz” or “pump my bags uwu” to actually use them. I don’t have an answer to this problem, but I know it’s there and I know it’s real.

I actually still think that instances built around specific projects is the way to go. Psychologically, I think having more or less closed instances that are there to announce things about your project on your domain name over fedi is an extremely effective way to structure this, and I’m not sure that the key-based Nostr can really replicate that. There’s something about @announce@edgyname.band publishing a link to where to get tickets that @0119673ab393069144b8d91ff5f143ece90bf315d6ca3f08976157d6c9ac7a39 just ain’t going to be able to compete with.

Are Arch/Gentoo spergs still a thing or have they given up that battle?

In that case you need to start a podcast where you deny the Holocaust and then get deeply invested in gay purity spirals about non-issues and e-drama about nothing.