Melmi

People posting blobfish always makes me sad. Poor things don’t actually look like that…

It’s like it aliens took humans into space and our corpses got all bloated from the lack of pressure and then the aliens laugh at our corpses and assume that’s what humans always look like…

I kinda of lean towards the idea of “private accounts” being a bad idea as a result, just because it creates a false sense of security. But I’m not in the target demographic so idk

The issue is that if you don’t default to federation, it becomes essentially impossible for new instances to join the fediverse. A potential new instance would have to go around to every single existing instance and ask to be allowlisted, which is onerous for both the new instances and for the large server admins who would be getting tons of requests. It would also essentially kill small-scale selfhosting as a result.

I’ve noticed this too and it’s so sad because I love em dashes, but whenever anyone uses them it puts me on guard. I still use them from time to time, but I’m more self-conscious about it now

A big part of IPv4’s persistence I think is that people insist that IPv6 is complicated, but then refuse to learn it or think outside their IPv4-brain. It’s just different enough that it’s easier to stay in v4, even if it requires a million hackjob fixes to keep around.

If anything is to blame for that, it’s the lack of momentum behind IPv6. We’re out of IPv4, so NAT is inevitable, and IPv6 doesn’t have enough inertia for single-stack to be viable (certainly wouldn’t be described as “no drama” at least).