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This is what doesn't get discussed enough around htmx, in my opinion. So much of the difficult steps are left for the templating system, and template systems aren't great in genera…

I like a lot of things about Elixir but I struggled with what felt like clumsy IDE capabilities. Stuff like 'go to definition' that I use all the time in other languages didn't wor…

Has this changed recently? When I was on Twitter a few years ago I often missed posts from my friends because the algorithm didn't show them to me. Same when I posted, often my fri…

So tired of this take. There are so many frontends, besides just the built-in interfaces for Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma there's also web-based frontends like Elk and Enafore, and t…

It's fairly easy, it could be better but it's like three steps. Switching away from any other social media in comparison is monumental.

> I don't really think until today I had anyone say to me, "Look, don't worry too much about which server you choose to start out with -- just pick one, because it's super-easy to …

I'm having trouble following, because the biggest instance would be the 'One Obvious Choice', but that choice seems lame to you? What could federated services do that would make th…

Partially true, but vanilla Mastodon does hardcode it at 500. Some forks make it configurable (I believe glitch-soc does), and some admins have edited the hardcoded value manually.…

Bluesky has a 300 character limit, Mastodon has 500, non-Mastodon ActivityPub servers have a configurable limit. Mastodon can render markdown, has subject lines which are commonly …

I think fediverse offers a decent compromise here which is that people can self-host an instance for other people to use. Some of the longest running instances have a few hundred u…

This point is confusing to me because there are so many clients available. Not only in different projects (Misskey/Firefish/Sharkey, Akkoma/Pleroma, glitch-soc), but also from the …

We can tell an argument is rational when it upholds existing power structures and diminishes people who are already marginalized. They're probably just complaining because being ma…

Sabine seems to believe any intellectual darkweb-esque argument she hears as long as it makes her feel heterodox. Her coverage of autism, transgender issues and capitalism were emb…

This is well-established in peer reviewed research, it's not just something I read.

I had always heard that part of the problem with tobacco smoke is that it's radioactive. Whereas marijuana smoke isn't. So it's still smoke but not nearly as carcinogenic?

That doesn't match the way people use the term though. Pleroma and Akkoma implement the Mastodon API but wouldn't be called Mastodon instances since they aren't running Mastodon.

I'm not buying it. - Allows hate speech to hide in plain sight. - Allows plausible deniability that you aren't the nazi bar. - May allow moderation labeling to be used as a form of…

So far that's been the case, but the spectacular failure of Twitter as a centralized service has definitely taught some people a lesson. It remains to be seen if wariness of centra…

I'm no expert, but piecing together what I've read, content moderation will not really be a thing. Instead there will be content labeling services which can be provided by third pa…

Calckey is working on account migration and backup that does transfer posts to the new server.

I like some concepts from HTMX but I don't understand how it tracks the relationship between these addresses and the identifiers in the markup. It seems to be just that the identif…

That's fair, I've heard complaints that mastodon's moderation tools also leave something to be desired but it might still be the best. I haven't been an admin so I can't comment fi…

Where is the canonical location to access an email, or read an XMPP message? It's not just that it 'might show up' in my timeline, seeing it on my home server is where I want it to…

This works from a Calckey instance, just confirmed. https://calckey.social/notes/9ebxxsy83i

ugh I wish I had tried to generate these through a non-mastodon instance, could have saved a lot of confusion. It works fine through Calckey: https://calckey.social/notes/9ebxxsy83…