I hope I've done enough to show that it's very, very very clear that the folks calling me "a bad actor" are easily 10x more harmful to marginalized communities and the fediverse as a whole, as some Itty bitty shitty PyQt5 application.
I also hope I've done enough to show that even a little centralization is bad. Mastodon.social got too big for its britches, and Eugene is literally outright refusing to, not just neglecting to, but outright saying he will not, enforce his own Code of Conduct. He had to be wheedled and prodded to even show a little bit of transparency.
I seriously hope that I've made these things perfectly clear. Especially on that first part; At this point, I don't want to hear a god damned thing about someone being "harmed" by a PyQt5 application that downloads public content.
Because holy shit am I bored with this.
Here, I trimmed out the only part of the LoR teaser that's actually worth watching.
Little punk buddy doing what he does best: Building something amazing with a part someone was careless enough to drop into Zaun.
It's okay, you don't miss much after this scene. Just shittier inventors using Ekko's technology with like, no fucking attribution.
This guy just sucks overall and is a cheap ripoff of fedi's very own @djsumdog
how about a tf2 themed instance called scoot-lab?
Mastodon's implementation of blocks is bad. Very, very bad. It's an attempt to emulate Twitter's block "logic", which is also bad.
On almost any other platform/protocol that came before modern social media, Alice blocking Bob means that Alice does not see anything Bob posts, and DMs/whispers from Bob either get silently dropped or rejected with a message. Bob is "blocked" from communicating with Alice.
Twitter and Mastodon (try to) also enforce the inverse; Alice blocking Bob also means Bob cannot see anything Alice posts. To some, this sounds fair and reasonable. The problem is, it can only ever be enforced on a website that requires an account to view content. And Twitter's entire business model is a global public conversation that anybody can tap into and participate in. 80% of visitors are lurkers, lurkers share by pasting links to other platforms. This is incompatible with requiring registration to view content.
But Mastodon is free! It's open! It's run by you! It's by the people! It's for the people! Why on Earth would you want/need to emulate those evil bastards at hellsite dot com?
Because of market pressure. As it turns out, Mastodon's target market, people who were too toxic for twitter, routinely used the blocker-is-invisible-to-blockee logic as a weapon on twitter. Obviously, they expected their full toolkit to be available on Mastodon. But Mastodon is decentralized; you can only reliably perform this sort of restriction on the blocker's server. that's it. that's a very small part of the fediverse.
What's the solution? Understand that this is gaslighting literally everyone involved. It also gives a false sense of security, which I feel is important to mention, because these features are almost always forced upon us for reasons of health and safety.
Developer, comedian, FOSS evangelist, proud truscum, hacker, and Ekko main. Primary developer of fediEngine. My general aversion to double standards angers SJWs and neo-nazis alike.
If you have such a disdain for "foss tech bros", you should put your money where your mouth is, by ceasing all use of their software. You can start by logging off the fediverse. Until then, I will follow, boost, and mention whomever I so please.
I shitpost, and I protect Ekko. This is my purpose.