Poor forgotten Wyll 😔

If it’s any consolation, I rarely use him either. He’s too damn nice!

Something changed culturally between Usenet and the things that came after.

Me, who only started into online communities in the early 2000s:

But the extent to which the fediverse seems to like to do this stuff just seems really extreme to me, and a lot of times what it’s based on is just weird petty bullying nonsense.

Not saying that it isn’t a problem, but as someone who’s been Around™ online, this is pretty par-for-the-course stuff.

Ah, to remember the glory days of Livejournal and Tumblr… and don’t get me started back in the days when every fandom had a dozen sites which all hated each other for vague and extremely personal reasons.

Nice feature!

Why was OP banned?

Underage user.

Adorable

I think there’s another part of this but I’m too lazy to look

Read the whole thing. Everyone involved in this, author included, seems to be batshit insane?

I’m about halfway through.

I didn’t realize Mastodon was big enough for so much fucking drama.

This but also after meeting Karlach

In the long run, whitelisting may become the norm for federation instead of blacklisting.

I was just offered 500$ to be someone’s friend. Of course, I refused - my friendship is worth much more than that!

But it’s… concerning that we’ve got this sudden spike in spam.

When I finally get back to the game, I’m definitely playing full evil-in-leather-pants Durge first, but I want to do sad Durge who just wants to do good after that 😭

BY THE GODS, IT’S KARLACH WITH A STEEL CHAIR! AND THE CROWD GOES WIIILD!

Crypto doesn’t really solve any of the problems that a payment processor wouldn’t also solve, unfortunately.

Real life. The offline world. Grassville.

I know that Federation is exciting, but all these ideas for federated services are really missing the reason why the Fediverse’s current bits are successful - because they have low moral hazard.

When you get into economics and meatspace relationships, moral hazard skyrockets.

Indifference is only the best revenge against someone who thinks about you. Someone who doesn’t think about you will be utterly indifferent to your indifference.

I wouldn’t place any high value on what we’re doing here. At best, you should view this as bitching about the news at the local college-kid frequented coffeeshop. Yes, there is an element of raising awareness and discussion - it’s not useless, but ultimately, it’s not going to play a major role in getting us out of this shitshow. We’re discussing matters because it brings us some relief to do so, first and foremost.

As is .world