Scarly the Raven @scarly@computerfairi.es

@Guinevere@girlcock.club tbh, i did try and the response was pretty much "why do i want to know about something that i can't even use?"

i was weeping. almost feel like i was being trolled, except she was so sincere

@maple @TheHottestPotato tbh, i think that this is good advice

i'll just be over here pretending to know as little as possible the next time she asks me a question, lol

@TheHottestPotato i think that this is pretty true, especially when it comes to things like this

the astonishing part of the whole thing is that she's convinced that i know nothing about programming. it's amazing.

i even showed her a project that i did, and she was like, "ok" and then continued the strangeness

i... can't... even........

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.

@lynnesbian i feel like it is a required part of the mastodon experience tbh

seize the memes of production

@maple woooo! this is excellent! 👍

i really missed the purple theme here, this Look is art tbh

@Zelli @maple @evie @LaserScheme i feel like i just walked into something so amazing tbh

@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