Chel @Chel@computerfairi.es

@Chel is the single most patient and forgiving person that i've ever met, lol

gargron is now on record as saying that the mastodon api is only for mastodon

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/101489738840502100

what this basically means is that the mastodon ecosystem of apps, helpful tools, etc will only ever be reliably compatible with mastodon with the rest of us jumping through hoops to try to reverse engineer it

so, in summary, a community that is allegedly federated actually does have an avenue through which one platform can control it. just fact.

makes u think?

as a random side note, while i was busy building stuff all day, i was still subjected to chels nonstop keyboard banging and occasional whimpers of terror, intermixed with various other sounds of torment as she "enjoyed" resident evil 2.

at this rate, if an actual zombie crisis occurs, ill be ready to act due to being thoroughly desensitized to the sounds of horror.

capitalism is the disease.

anarchy is the treatment.

socialism is the cure.

dr. scarly is now in office and ready to prescribe.

i'm going to be moving to my home instance at:

https://computerfairi.es/@scarly

if you're interested in following me, then you can follow me there

basically, i really don't have the spoons for running my own instance atm and i do miss having an active local timeline (solo instances are Lonely)

hi, this is actually the same scarly crow that used to reside at soc.scarly.pink

i'm going to be lazy now and go back to my original home instance while i continue to plan on how to overthrow the world and bring about a socialist revolution

tried to help a cis-in-law with coding homework. this. was. a. mistake.

i told her you can change variables after you make them. she didn't believe me. "what's the point of a variable if you can change it after you create it!? shouldn't it mean something?"

i was like, "it's.... variable......."

she ended up going to some random guy for help and he gave her an answer that is not going to pass the homework assignment but... and he told her that variables never change

someone. please.. help me.

so, the reason that i had originally created my own instance was so that i could watch and learn how activitypub worked. instead, i think that i learned a lot more about how gargron thinks and how the project's internal politics ended up influencing its structure.

that's really interesting to me. also, activitypub as a protocol is simple it turns out. the downside is that implementing it is more of an art than a science. it tells you what to do but not how to do it.

like a reverse cookbook.

*imports following list*

now, to wait. and... like a newly watered plant, my home timeline shall grow once more, mwuahahaha

should it be a 'bug report' or a 'feature request' for adding import options for lists and domain blocks?

because looking at it from an end user perspective, there are imports options for half of the export options so why shouldn't i be able to import ALL the things i can export???