[-] ticho@social.fossware.space 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mastodon does not need to scale well. Even if the userbase shrinks to what it was before the Big Twitter Exodus (or whatever you want to call it) of last year, it will be perfectly alright.

Mastodon was fun and enjoyable before. It does not need more users to remain so.

[-] ticho@social.fossware.space 3 points 1 year ago

It's very similar to how Twitter felt in its early years. You had to know exactly what you wanted to see (topics, people), otherwise you'd feel lost.

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I have several pairs of old running shoes gathering dust in my closet, because I am hesitant to just throw them away in the trash.

Years ago, I read something about one of the shoe manufacturing companies having some shoe recycling program, so I'm hoping that it caught on - but I can't find anything like that anywhere today.

What do you guys do with your old, worn-down running shoes?

[-] ticho@social.fossware.space 5 points 1 year ago

"Multimillion-dollar fines" is just another term for "pocket change" in this context. Pump those numbers up!

[-] ticho@social.fossware.space 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As someone who has written and maintained an RSS aggregator for years, I can tell you that this jankiness is in big part because of how vague and under-defined the feed formats (RDF, RSS2, Atom) are, and how "creative" various websites are in producing feeds which are just barely standard-compliant, but also just enough screwed up to cause problems when parsing them.

It was a headache after a headache trying to get all the weird corner cases handled.

[-] ticho@social.fossware.space 4 points 1 year ago

I've been using Matrix for several years now, and am very happy with it, and with the progress that it made.

I have one instance just for me, which I use for general chatting, as well as for some light experiments (I'm toying with some client development and trying new plugins or appservices now and then).

I have another, private and undfederated instance for family comms. I set it up at the very beginning of the Covid-19 era, when nobody knew how long and how severe will the travel restrictions be, and we've been using it heavily ever since.

[-] ticho@social.fossware.space 7 points 1 year ago

Something about books, covers and judging...

[-] ticho@social.fossware.space 1 points 1 year ago

It's been in beta for a while now. Here's the blog post introducing video rooms: https://element.io/blog/drop-in-drop-out-chats-with-video-rooms-and-a-new-search-experience/

[-] ticho@social.fossware.space -2 points 1 year ago

It's more surprising that the public source access lasted this long. I see this as a natural defense against the parasites like Rocky or Alma Linux, which only take, take and take.

[-] ticho@social.fossware.space 1 points 1 year ago

Yep, I also tend to get around 1000km from my shoes. Usually my signal to retire a pair is pain in the left toe ball (is that the right term?) after a run.

[-] ticho@social.fossware.space 4 points 1 year ago

I'm not that optimistic. I think MANY people are fed up with this particular case of a centralized site being annoying, but do not really care about anything other than getting their dopamine fix, and will happily jump into sack with next big social media site, centralized or not. Most people just don't care.

[-] ticho@social.fossware.space 7 points 1 year ago

Your own, obviously! Especially if you're asking in a "Selfhosted" community. :)

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