Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

@panic I badly want these IR codes on a Flipper, for reasons...

@domi It really feels like Cloudflare shouldn't have issued a cert for this...

@imnotafeline @androiddreams this bot has been broken since Dec. 9. It just posts polls and fails to generate any images.

@andrewmelder @dansup

I think a robust solution is, as you say, to default to a large flagship instance when first running a fediverse app to ease onboarding.

But there also needs to be better account portability. Once you join a big instance and learn the lay of the land, you might want to move to another smaller instance, but if you do so, you might keep all of your followers, but none of your content will come with you.

Fix that, and users can choose their preferred instance on-demand.

So the guy who calls himself "Kekius Maximus" and has a Pepe the Frog avatar threw a Nazi salute at a far-right anti-immigrant rally, and the ADL is calling for people to "give him the benefit of a doubt" and consider it an "awkward moment".

Neo-Nazi groups had no trouble understanding what his gesture meant...

@YurkshireLad I love the fediverse, and recommend it to plenty of people, but I accept that it isn't a replacement for most people.

I get along here because it's a really tech savvy place, but that's not something that attracts everyone.

I'm nostalgic for the early years of social networking, but those days are long behind us...

@YurkshireLad Honestly, there's nothing wrong with returning to email, instant messaging, and niche forums. I know that sounds old fashioned, but people were social on the Internet well before the advent of social networking.

It's probably healthier too. Social networks made socializing worse, just as dating apps made dating worse. Sometimes we need to ask what exactly we're getting from these tech companies other than the illusion of convenience.