trying to get changes adopted by mastodon at a software or protocol level reminds me of the general frustrations of electoral politics. it's only slightly less ineffectual

question mainly to proponents of quote posts, but anyone can respond: what would you say is the semantic relationship between a “quote post” and “the post being quoted”? Are there any semantics at all, or is it a generic link/reference? What’s the difference between a “quote” and a “link preview”? By semantic, I mean “meaning”. What does it mean to “quote” something? If “quote posts” never existed, how would you design an equivalent? boosts welcome, i’m trying to get a wide range of answers

the web was not made to be federated imo because the web is not a messaging platform, it's a publishing platform. in messaging, you federate between systems; in publishing, you *syndicate* to other sites. there is a difference, and the difference matters.

i want to Kill

idk where to really put this (might turn into a blog post later or something). it's what you might call a "hot take", certainly a heterodox one to some parts of the broader #fediverse community. this is in response to recent discussion on "what do you want to see from AP/AS2 specs" (in context of wg rechartering) mostly devolving into people complaining about JSON-LD and extensibility, some even about namespacing in general (there was a suggestion to use UUID vocab terms. i'm not joking) 1/?

welcome to the fediverse! it's easy to get started, just pick one of these 30,000 nation-states you want to swear absolute allegiance and fealty to. you WILL be judged for this decision later. good luck!

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