Someone on Mastodon just posted a discussion titled: "Right of Reply, or: who should be able to reply to your posts on a social network, and how do we technically enforce that?" I'm going to put it out there that people will one day look back and say, "this is the day Mastodon jumped the shark." The first step was this effort to create defederation lists based on subscription to the defederation list; the second was the assertion by some people that, if you run a node, you have some moral obligation to police your users -- the words used were "this was the job you signed up for." This concept of "right of reply" is absurd. You're posting content *publically.* You want the right to selectively silence people responding in the public sphere? You get to talk, they don't? If they don't reply directly to your comment, but reference the comment in a completely separate thread, do you get the right to silence them there? I can't even begin to wrap my brain around the ethical gymnastics needed to justify this, much less the technical impossibility.

No matter how often I see that new grill on BMWs, it never gets any less ugly.

Is the translation bot for posters, or viewers? How does it work?

It'd be nice to be able to find accounts to follow that talked about something other than crypto, or the platform itself. Mastodon went through this phase during the Great Twitter Migration, but it seems especially difficult to find non-navel-gazing accounts.

How many of you keep a file with lists of software options for different purposes? Or when you need something, do you just test every option, choose one, and then stick with it forever? There is so much software, and so frequently new options, I do not remember, e.g., all of the possible image viewers and why I don't use any given one. I have to keep notes, especially on the infrequently used stuff. And sometimes, when I need a tool for a purpose, I get sucked down a rabbit-hole of installing and testing and making notes. I love the work people put into 'Awesome X', and sometimes Wikipedia comparison pages help, but often there's no good alternative to just trying everything yourself; especially when you have unconventional requirements. Open Source begets information overload, and I'd have it no other way. But, boy, does it often prevent me from being productive.

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