@evan 100% yes but no but yes but no but

@evan
Very strong yes.

@evan no, you have to ask the president of the fediverse.

@evan
Please🥹🥹🥹

@evan Where's "Yes, and"?

@evan of course.

@prahou @evan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Lauwiner?wprov=sfla1

@evan

I really want to read the arguments against.

@evan I plan to do so next year.

I will try to prove that #ActivityPub can be way more useful that it already is by implementing it in a different system, in a new social case.

@jmeowmeow In this kind of poll, it's probably just YES. You can always qualify your answer! Except if it is a veiled "yes, but" like "yes, and at the same time ..." or "yes, and I also think there are cases where it is not ok". @evan

@evan That entirely depends on which new things you're thinking of, so neither "yes but" nor "no but" fits the question as asked.

I don't see the point of this. its gpl. you can fork or see about working for an existing project or make your own thing. its like saying is doing art in a different way is ok.

@HubertManne It is not GPL.

@malte @evan Yes, and to be in the spirit of community, the new thing should have the nature of not adding burdens to the network, but options. (Yes, and don't subtract; add, or at least be a zero)

@malte @evan Yes, AND is encouragement to raise the game or the scene for the current and future participants; Yes, BUT has the wrong sense, even if well-intended (yes, but don't break things)

@evan

a "Yes but…don't be a jerk" vote here

@spraoi

My biggest "yes, but…" exception involves being a jerk. Should I create an ActivityPub slurper that ingests & archives everyone's feeds, indexing them to be searched into the future? There's a lot of anti-norms around that. Or a bot to find topics I find disagreeable and auto-harass any post/user on the topic? Or a scheme of circumnavigating server/user blocks/bans?

I love the idea of open innovation but that can come with social costs from folks who aren't aligned with the fediverse norms.

@evan

@gumnos why?

@evan

provided more detail in my other reply here:

https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@gumnos/117106624159507186