Björn Lindström @bkhl@mastodon.sdf.org

I feel like instance blocking is resulting in the Fediverse becoming more fragmented, and it's sad that the only workaround is hosting single-user/extremely tiny instances.
Not everyone has the ability to host their own instance (most Fedi instance software is a huge pain to work with for small instances), and new users shouldn't be forced into a filter bubble.

Instance blocking was designed as a last-resort kind of thing to protect against spam, but it seems like every Mastodon instance is using instance blocking to keep away everyone they don't like. You can get your instance blocked simply for federating with an instance with federates with Gab or Spinster.
Instance blocks are also shared between instance admins, so if one instance blocks your instance for a dumb reason, many more will follow.

New users are going to eventually end up with two very bad choices: Either join an instance which blocks half the Fediverse, or join an instance which is blocked by half the Fediverse. We're building the filter bubble that we were originally trying to avoid.

Note: I'm fine with individual users being able to block instances if they want to, it's just that admins shouldn't force instance blocks on all their users.

I don't understand rpm-ostree. What is it like comparing to Nix and Docker?

I think if I got to ride Athens public transport just a few more days I would have gotten the hang of reading capital-letter Greek and I'm a bit sad I didn't get to

Okay, forget the other criteria for now. What is an FP lang you like with a small and ergonomic syntax/grammar, and why do you like it?

What are some modern functional programming languages which are fast (compiled), with a nice syntax and good contact with the surrounding system? Are there any?

If Mozilla used Slack because it is practical, They'd use Chrome because it is practical too? 🤔

Developer-driven software distribution is a bad idea, which is why I dislike things like Flatpak.

Having distro maintainers involved in the process and installing your software from a free software distribution like Debian or FreeBSD is a much better distribution of power. The packages can be tuned to suit their environment without the developer having to repackage it for every distro, and the distro maintainers can keep out anti-features like telemetry and advertising.

The middleman may seem annoying to developers, but embrace the model and it'll work for you. Landing packages in your favorite distro isn't actually that hard, and the rest of the distros will follow. If you're an end-user who wants to see some software available for your distro, look into packaging and volunteer - it's easy.

Hey y'all earlier today I posted about Racket-MUD, my MUD engine written in Racket, talking about how it's cool and stuff. Unfortunately, all y'all's boosts killed the server it was on, and that's not the first time that's happened.

So, I moved the repo to Gitlab for now:

https://gitlab.com/emsenn/racket-mud/

This is my favourite genre of web design: simultaneously advocating for a style and demonstrating why you should/shouldn't use it!

https://alisdair.mcdiarmid.org/kill-sticky-headers/

celebrating 32 years of community around #unix #bsd #music and #art

#hello #introduction #new #mastodon #fediverse

Happy to see that @sir's https://useplaintext.email is now the top search result for "plaintext email"!

(At least on . It probably varies more on Google)

(and special shoutout to the graphic by Fosstodon's own @ohyran :) )