just a 2d boy living in a 3d world

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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Yes it is. While I’d heard of Mastodon in the context of Elon’s Twitter dumpster fire, I had no idea it was federated or what the fediverse was. I like it so far, with the obvious caveats that there’s plenty of room for improvement. I’m hoping to learn more about how the platform works technically so that I can contribute a bit.


  • Current place:

    • Work is done on a feature branch on a personal fork of the repo
    • Codebase requires 100% functional coverage, and you’re responsible for writing the tests for your code and including that in the same PR
    • Run pre-commit hooks for style auto-formatters before you can commit and push your code to your origin fork
    • Ideally run local tests as well
    • Create a PR to pull feature branch into the upstream repo’s main branch, which triggers the CI pipeline for style and tests
    • At least 1 other person must review the code before a PR can be approved and merged into upstream main
    • There’s a separate CI pipeline for testing of publishing the packages to TestPyPI
    • Releases to PyPI are currently done manually

  • I agree that Lemmy could end up filling the same negative voids that reddit does. I suppose my hope is that by restricting the conversation and limiting bad-faith arguments, there will be less toxicity here relative to reddit.

    In the end, addicting us with anger and outrage in order to drive participation and clicks is the end-stage of all social media, and that cat is out of the bag. But perhaps there’s a little temperance that can be found if we don’t see social media foremost as an opportunity to harvest data but as a way to interact and share ideas.


  • I feel like reddit dying could be a positive thing for me. For years now I have felt the negative influence that its toxic environment - fueled by impersonal, discordant interactions - had on me. Not to mention the complete destruction of my ability to concentrate caused by the micro dopamine hit targeting of social media UX. I’m hoping that moving to a smaller platform will help with some of that pervasive anger I feel as a result of constant reddit usage.