This of the core of the problem. Github energy.

Fine for a hobby. Not good enough for a public-facing product.

It’s owned by facebook, it’s irrelevant.

It will, but it still has that countdown timer over its head.

The future is the fediverse, some yet-to-be-invented non-corporate equivalent, or offline.

The actual center, which never moves even as extremists come and go, would be a little to the right of Elizabeth Warren, though not by much.

If the internet has a future, it’s on the Fediverse. We work around capitalism to avoid enshittification, or we let it defer our future further.

In the meantime, the Fediverse needs to get shiny and intuitive. The sign that something is cumbersome and hard to use is people saying “it’s not that bad”.

They were a mistake.

Take the week off, work for two days on the weekends.

Even if you’d get a vengeance kick out of it, the suffering won’t produce the good results you want.

This is dumb.

It’s not benign. Long covid can be and often is permanent. You get that shit, and everything you care about in your life is now a distant second place.

What you’re calling “benign” is everybody consciously choosing to ignore it, and act like anyone smart enough not to is somehow weird and wrong.

Some lost their ability to regulate from everybody else being critically stupid, some see everybody still being dumb about it and aren’t gonna play such a transparently stupid game. Some got long covid, the worst outcome of all, the thing you wear a mask to stop.

Multiple causes.

Yeah in the old world where a little elbow grease was all you needed to afford a house, this would have been a coward’s move and creepy as hell.

Now, it beats the pants off of most jobs. Which is all the evidence you need of how much of a failure society has become. This situation should be awful, but it’s pretty nifty by comparison.

No, we don’t know. It makes less sense than it ever did seeing it play out in real time.

And it’s still, for the moment, a screw-up. Something that slipped through the cracks. Deregulation means not even trying to stop it anymore, so it’ll be normal. Or, one layer of protection will be gone.

Stomach pain can be easily some of the worst pain.

Yeah if a bug or a hardware failure can make me see nightmare spiders everywhere or send a signal to my pain centers, that’s a permanent no.

It probably helps in one way and harms in another to say: it feels that way because it is that way.

It’s at least nice to know you’re onto something. You’re seeing what’s there. Your head is screwed on straight! Yay!

The situation still sucks, but a partial victory is a partial victory.

Somebody definitely needs to make a frontend that makes it smooth.

Bad idea. Bluesky’s just gonna end up like Twitter.

The Fediverse could get shitty in new ways too, but it can’t get Elon’d. Bluesky eventually will. The future is on the Fediverse. All we’re doing is delaying that future by swapping one corporation for another.

Though maybe that future needs to be delayed, because the Fediverse needs to lose its “yeah our app can do that thing you want, just edit a few variables in the source code”-style github energy.

Mastodon is ultimately usable, because I figured it out, but it should have been easier, and needs to get easier. Maybe it has the rise and fall of bluesky to figure that out.

New is the old new ❤️

Formerly known as? It’s still twitter.