So, I was probably (one of) the first to post that āPixelfed leaks private postsā thing on here? I first wrote a long reply to this, but it sort if got away from me. The short version would be,
A) sure, the fediverse has a bullying problem in the sense that people do, and that that is usually exacerbated in any online comment field. People are awful, and that includes me, you, Dansup, and anybody reading this. We're also usually pretty brilliant when nobody's looking.
B) despite what I write above, I don't take bullying lightly. I am really uncomfortable with how you use the generally phrased headline to address this specific case. You're not writing about the fediverse as such, you're casting Dansup as a victim.
C) Dan's up, Dan's down, Dan's a victim, Dan's throwing a fit online and then deleting the tweets. As you cite in OP, some people attribute all sorts of unrelated evil to him. Most of all, my impression is Dansup has as a hard time separating from his role as main developer on Pixelfed, Loops, etc, as online commenters has separating his work from (perceived) personal faults.
D) let's imagine those projects were fully open sourced and developed by the community already. Would we be in the same situation here? Again, resorting to ad hominem bullying in online discussion is unacceptable, but I do question that Dansup is an unequivocable victim. Nor is he an evil mastermind who has engineered this situation to garner pity. He just seems to be extremely hard working, with a generous pinch of need for control of his projects.
I've seen Japanese artist deleted their account because they mistaken a joke towards their art as hate comment.
Yikes! I wanted to comment that it would be clear that you're using a translation service of some kind if you reply in a different language from the post, and the other part might take that into consideration ā but clearly that isn't a given.
Edited to add: I got this around the wrong foot, see the reply to this. /edit
Not necessarily, as clearly stated in the linked article:
But sure enough, the toot was followers only and the person that had liked it was not following her Mastodon account. When I took a look at the other persons profile on pixelfed.social, I noticed that the instance was nevertheless claiming the account was following her.
When pixelfed assumes that an account is not locked, it immediately treats a follow attempt as completed. For the server on the other end it looks like a normal follow request. It could be rejected, and pixelfed would still be convinced that a follow relation exists.
If I understand it correctly, it's kind of both. Sounds like Pixelfed didn't follow best practice setting privacy guardrails in follow request approval, and it exacerbates the inherent lack of privacy on the fediverse.
You're right of course, anyone (with the coding chops) could've intentionally set up an instance that does the same for malicious purposes. That should be a wake-up call for anyone who thinks ActivityPub is a great sexting medium.
The European public sector could choose any stable Linux distro, with any DE. Now, somebody proposed a branded "EU OS" so you know what the non-techies in charge are going to go for.
Pardon my cynicism, but to me that branding seems opportunist and suspicious in itself. Let the suits at least ask their sysadmins what would be the better setup.
The title is a bit of a leap, and not really supported in the image. Without any context, you're just posting two columns of job ad jargon š¤· And the column headings are iffy at best. Being "process-oriented" would be rule bending in some fields, whereas "tactical and persuasive" communication might be completely within expectations in others.
As for the narcissistic element, that's only referenced in your title as (apparently) synonymous with the "rule-bending" column that you say you identify more with š¤ Sorry, that's the kind of speculation you open up for when you leave interpretation up to a reader.
This is key to a calm timeline on Mastodon (as it was on Twitter): Mute accounts liberally ā and mute hashtags as well. There will be a maddening amount of noise, and since there is no algorithm on Mastodon, it's up to yourself to focus in the important stuff.
FWIW, you can setup IndieAuth ā on its own or as part of the IndieWeb plugin suite for Wordpress. It may not be quite what you're looking for, but it's a step in the right direction?
I think I understand the self hosted identity server part, and authenticating with it on different sites. But what is the federated element you're talking about? What would that instance federate, and with whom?
If we're moving into a single sign-on for several federated accounts, that's cool. People have been asking for that for ages! But the identity provider itself wouldn't (need to) be federated for that to work, right?
Plume isn't currently actively maintained, unfortunately. It's right below the fold of the page you linked š
As for customisability, I think writefreely has some different themes to choose from, they're just hidden away in the docs or on github.