NodeBB-ActivityPub Bridge Test Instance

a gentle reminder that it is compulsory to kick out the jams, motherfuckers. you have to kick them out. it is not optional.

@sungo totally agree.

the sub-500 active user, community focused, often (but not always) topically themed instances of the fediverse are absolutely the sweet spot in my opinion for using this as a place for getting to know people over the long term. huge noisy instances just have no local community generally because they're too dang big and they have no mechanism for sub-communities (local neighborhoods?) to grow and thrive, in no small part because we flatten interactions into weird all-or-nothing relationships in this following-follower modality so building community through instance choice and heavy use of the local timeline is the only real play.

@trwnh I'm with ya, yeah

@trwnh mmm, feel like "it is been" is as wrong as "it has be" personally, but not a hill I'd even fight on haha

it has only become possible to be aware of the real-time happenings of humanity around the world during my lifetime. the phrase that comes to mind is "information overload". you live in unprecedented times. give yourself a break from the firehoses, and give yourself a break from the self-criticism for not knowing how to deal with the information overload.

like something? share it with your friends. not supposed to? who says? who cares? share it with your friends anyway.

hate something? do not share it with your friends. not to mock it. not to shame it. just don't share it. it's way simpler and is more effective at making the thing you hate not a thing as much.

all of this, everything we deal with, is about people interacting with people, sometimes by choice, sometimes out of necessity, sometimes under threat of violence. you're your best advocate in deciding how your side of that interaction is going to go, not the person on the other side.

it used to be a scene on the internet where if an institution or group of institutions, say e-commerce sites, started doing something users hated, say requiring an account to browse and see prices, the users responded by building something to make the hated functionality go away, like a database filled with throwaway accounts for websites requiring accounts.

it still is a scene. bypass shit. share the bypasses. push back en masse. constantly.

@mikedev@fediversity.site god you're annoying as fuck sometimes, you realize that yeah? like, your attitude just sucks.

an activitypub server with fixed resource requirements per account as its top-level goal would be an interesting experiment to see happen.

activitypub server that "freezes" posts made locally after a configurable interval (say, six months by default, or some such), removing them from the database and making the posts non-interactive, but rendering the frozen posts in html and json as flat files on disk, with a small script to check for authorization on a get request that passes the flat file through if authorization is successful, but not recording new favs, replies, boosts, etc, and returning a well-specified error response whenever a remote actor attempts to do so.