Well, they use a for loop that whatever group of bureaucrats has to enter a limit into, but basically yes.

Yep, 1990-2010 was kind of the golden age for learning computers on the fly. They were too rare and inaccessible before, and they’re too polished and sandboxed now.

Yes, it’s just buried under crap and and redundant copies of itself. And possibly still written in Fortran.

There’s been a definite tinge of ideology or at least gatekeeping to some of these responses, but that’s to be expected. FOSS has always had a streak of it.

It’s a bit ironic to use ActivityPub to say ActivityPub has no real applications, though.

It’s a good blog post, thanks. I made a quick summery elsewhere in the thread.

It’s really unfortunate that we’ve ended up with two populated protocols for federation, both of which have a major flaw. In our case, it’s no established support for moving accounts. In theirs, its a component that’s so bulky the federatability is questionable (and no federated DMs).

How can you guys tell? It seems like exactly the kind of thing you’d stage for your gross-out memes insta.

I’m pretty sure breaking your website with no cookies is against the rules, actually. It’s either serve the EU with GDPR-compliance or GTFO entirely.

Yeah, you could still just break the law, but as usual there’s a cost to that one way or the other.