Blake Runnoe

@aberrate_junior_beatnik the headstart I was referring to was in developing the technology. As you pointed out it would be hypocritical to cite the fediverse user base as a draw to using ActivityPub while simultaneously downplaying the size of the user base as insignificant. Sorry I wasn’t clear what I was referring to.

@aberrate_junior_beatnik @niartenyaw how do you know that? Isn’t it entirely possible that they just decided to build a Twitter knock off and realized that building off ActivityPub gave them a headstart and some good PR? Meta is a giant compared to the fediverse and it’s trying to compete with other giants, not ants. Declaring we won’t eat crumbs dropped from the giant’s table isn’t going to even be noticed by the giant. We get more out of federation than they do by a mile.

@MrFrobozz this a good take. Do people want the web to be more open generally or just have an ideologically pure corner of it? For the time being, the only reason to defederate with Threads is because you want to gatekeep open standards, but to me open standards are supposed to be agnostic. I think it’s totally possible that very legitimate reasons to defederate show up- but just wanting to defederate because of the company that created it isn’t something I agree with.

@llama @InevitableWaffles freshwater is apparently pretty important. Never going to be a Mad Max scenario over here.

@seahorse it’s just spinning for an unusually long time, with no specific error. Got to be 5 minutes by now. I’ve been bouncing between failing the Captcha and getting a “too many requests” error yesterday and earlier today. If it turns out I’m failing the Captcha because I’m a robot, please let me down gently 😉

@seahorse I haven’t been able to submit my application to join the instance yet (or maybe I have repeatedly, sorry if that’s the case!) is the sign up issue I’m having related to this? Commenting from mastodon, which is kind of amazing that it works.

@krolden @cynetri are your comments left up if you’re banned?