Looks more like he's juggling projects while riding a unicycle, and doing insult comedy at the same time. I think it's fair to question the sustainability of this, and if/when he'll publically self destruct.
I don't want to say either way because I'm just observing from the sideline, but I'm trying to find context for what bubbles to the surface.
I don't think anyone can argue that he works harder than most, maybe juggles a few too many projects for one man? Then he goes online and checks his better judgement at the door 🤷
Yeah, that would be the New Year's meltdown referenced, I guess. So is there bottled up crazy behind every deleted toot of his? Should we be apprehensive about using his projects?
ClassicPress is a start, I guess. My thought is more of slashing off all the extraneous bloat that has been added to WP over the last 15 years (but keeping the security updates) and make it a lean little blogging software again. But if course I don't have the skills to do that myself.
TBF, there is theme support in writefreely, though mostly limited to some colour changes within the very text based aesthetic.
Ideally IMHO, somebody would take the consequence of recent Wordpress drama and just use the code base for a very light install — perhaps with the activitypub plugin baked in, to make it fediverse native.
In that case, sorry to break it to you: It's hard to swallow (no pun intended), but sometimes you just have to accept that people of your immediate acquaintance or relation are utterly unkinky.
I guess OP means it sounds like "fetish", but this looks like a retread of the "what if people think the fediverse logo looks like a pentagram?" hypothetical that didn't have any root in reality either.
I'm not a developer either, so take this as an observer's speculation.
My impression is that venture capitalists took a long look at the fediverse and chucked their money at Bluesky instead, because it actually works more similar to "ye olde" social networks — specifically with a business plan, road map and traditional organisational structure.
The parts of the fediverse that I am most inclined toward is too unruly, recalcitrant and noncommercial to attract deeper interest from VC investors. They are deliberately built and organised to resist expectancy of capital return on investments.
So my conclusion is the reverse of what you'd rather not discuss — in my eyes, the fediverse isn't very good for investors, because until now it's largely been grassrootsy. It will be interesting to see what VC-friendly platforms emerges in the vein of Bluesky or even Threads, and to what degree they will overlap with the current fediverse.
You know what, yes. Let's build a power efficient AI simulation where all the tech bros can play their little pyramid games with digital Monopoly money — and keep that rubbish in that simulation. Just siphon every emerging grift into the bubble and ensure the bullshit doesn't have real world ramifications like
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using most of Kazakhstan's energy production to run Bitcoin mining server parks.
Probably onboarding one cryptocurrency scam or other. Gala even peddles NFTs which by now have been so utterly, publicly ridiculed that it's a wonder the term still makes it into product descriptions.
For a second there I thought you'd genuinely connected all your devices to a service you didn't know the first thing about 😄
TIL Taildrop is a new(ish?) Tailscale feature that adds airdrop-alike transfer to your tailnet.