Scarly the Raven @scarly@computerfairi.es

@maple i know this feel, batteries for old electronics are a glorious thing

\o/

the facts are in - calling someone a "bird brain" is no longer an insult

birds are smart. pass it along!

@Guinevere@girlcock.club ultimately, as long as things stay fragmented then they'll be safe from corporate dominance bc no one instance will have all that much power

also, getting mastodon compatible alternatives is good. im working on one now actually, and it aims to try to push some of the limits on what the activitypub spec can do

@Guinevere@girlcock.club thankfully, the fediverse is super fragmented right now. i actually created a spreadsheet using the data on fediverse.network bc i wanted to look at exactly this. mastodon.social and the other larger instances combined still don't quite hit 50% of the current mastodon instance network.

pleroma is the next active, but actually a lot of its activity is concentrated in some of those alt right instances that we all mute

@Guinevere@girlcock.club agreed. as an alternative to this, however, there are also some protocols for easy account migration between disparate systems.

adopting one of those would be a bit more transparent than a chain and just as effective, because you would retain all of your data in a way that makes sense

downside? this would require coordination between the activitypub serve developers.

and, i have noticed that mastodon is dominant enough that it tends to dictate these things

@multiple_creatures tbh, i like this flow, since it makes it easier to avoid authoritarian structures of governance.

@Guinevere@girlcock.club oh no worries, yet

the culture of the project isn't going to impact the culture of fediverse, because each instance admin has their own power to influence things

because the project isn't centralized, there is no one person that can influence the culture of the fediverse instantly

with that said, as long as mastodon is the only instance server used by most instances, then things are a bit more fragile than they seem. since, admins can't control the project.

@Guinevere@girlcock.club oh goodness, i don't wanna gossip, haha, and i also don't want to scare people away

but, if you really want to know - i'd say that the reality is that projects ran by cishet white guys are probably not going to have the frame of reference that lends themselves towards becoming safe spaces

less generally, gargron can sometimes be really narrow minded and reject community suggestions based on Programmer Logic without considering from a people based point of view

@Kaffe this should be a thing!

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

also, there's something to be said about having an active local timeline. it's nice to have neighbors. i'm too attached to people to just go solo again, tbh

it was too quiet

in a way, it's kinda nice to start over without anyone following me

takes some pressure off

i've never been much for clout

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

@zac this is brilliant! i will take you up on this when i get a bit further in my current project tbh

@zac lmfao, i wondered how many folks caught on to that!

probably, i'm going to go and try to refollow everyone that i followed, and half the people will be like, "who dis?!" even tho the name matches

also, my instance is just too ponderous atm to keep up with. i failed at upgrading mastodon, and it ate my db Somehow. i tried doing some basic cleanup and that didn't work. finally, i thought about pleroma, but i really don't like its interface

i am defeated, but at least i still have a home