mircoxi

mircoxi, 23 days ago to random

What even are the frontends other than Mastodon? I'm sticking with CI as my main instance for as long as it's up, but I'd been meaning to set up an instance for a project I've been working on anyway - if Masto's future is uncertain it seems unwise to go that route? But it's also the only one I'm familiar with >_>

mircoxi, 25 days ago to random

I'm gonna dig out my old semi-finished spec for an AP alternative. I started it a couple years ago as a portfolio piece before depression hit (and getting mocked for writing it in Python and PHP instead of Rust and Go like the big boys), but I have a sudden urge to finish it

I already have test implementations for full account migration, "lifeboats" for when an instance needs to unexpectedly shut down (so folks can just carry on using it without losing anything on the instance they designated as second choice), and encryption between instances (as well as an E2E DM implementation I'm pretty sure I need to re-work)

mircoxi, 25 days ago to random

The "official" Mastodon instance, whenever I look at it, seems to just be techbros* pretending to nominally care about decentralisation, but only insofar as they can shill their startup by saying it supports ActivityPub. With that in mind I'm not terribly surprised Mastodon has lived long enough to see itself become the villain, since it seems like none of them really interact with other instances either

(* techbros and people dipping their feet in who don't know about other instances yet, but those folks aren't at fault outside of maybe complaining that it's not exactly like Twitter)