Discourse Machine (sm) @rachel@vulpine.club

bringing up these mastodon instances is important.

Open source software, especially those using the [A]GPL, does not give you the ability to stop people using your software. You cannot stop people using your software based on your moral code using it. all you can do is discourage them using other methodology.

There is nothing to stop them from forking you, there is nothing to stop them from using your software, there is literally /nothing/ you can do.

hey everyone,

especially those of you who've only used mastodon and twitter.

I want to remind you that other software, such as pleroma, is not bad to use. It shows no moral leaning or anything. It's up to the admin of the instance, their rules, and their moderators.

If all you see from pleroma is places like Gab, You seem to have missed all the mastodon instances dedicated to "free speech" and the mastodon instances that let literal nazis sit on their instance because they "hadn't done anything wrong"

Please stop spreading FUD about how Pleroma admins and instances are all free speech assholes, when its literally untrue.

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so uh, yeah i am fennec.

i am very much fennec.

it worries me sometimes the concept that maybe people don't know i'm fennec ... and that makes me feel all kinds of dysphoria...

I'm Rachel, a very silly fae fennec fox, very purple too.

I'm otherkin, autistic, and a survivor. I'm also the admin of otherkin.club and has.foxiepa.ws and a netadmin on EntropyNet.

You have probably me around on the fediverse before, you might even follow me, but this account is going to be for my spirituality and other otherkin ponderances.

My system-mates may also use this account, and if they do they will sign the end of the message to try to make it obvious who's talking.

#introductions

And we're live!

okay

https://relay.otherkin.club/ is up as well now.

i'm going to flop into bed now and start working on the more, social/squishy stuff now the tech stuff is mostly figured out

I've still got a bunch of stuff to do, such as writing a ToS and community info stuff, blocking a few instances, doing some frontend edits, etc.

right now, people who sign up, please use common sense... Please don't make me have to remove you.

Okay so

https://relay.scalie.xyz/

I'm running a relay for the goals of being a portable Otherkin relay, vs the many others that only work for mastodon.

We're using https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/relay to run this and it'd be cool if some Otherkin folks signed up their instances.

Thanks~

going to be setting up a relay.


should i do relay.scalie.xyz or relay.foxiepa.ws

anyway yeah i'm pretty fucking tired of webshits.

you people are so fucking out of touch with the world i don't even know what to say.

you write clunky crap, expect every single person to want to keep your shit open 24/7, and expect everyone to basically be constantly interacting with your shit.

you write shit code, expect people to just deal with the fact that the code you write ends up using tons of fucking ram or doesn't have any accessibility help.

And yet you think your closed, only running on one single browser, not inter-operating with the users choices and needs, etc is the future... so long as the source code is uploaded to github or gitlab.

what a fucking joke.

i'm pondering streaming Another World (aka Out of this World)

anyone wanna watch me die 100,00 times?

i wonder what portion of the fediverse is otherkin...

This isn't going to be a discord beatdown because IRC is superior post.

I want to instead talk about a problem that keeps really affecting me that i ONLY have with HTTP based protocols and websocket streaming.

I do actually use discord, quite a lot, for me it's replaced my TS3 and mumble servers with something that sounds better for general chitchat.

I have a bot, it relays my IRC channels with my discord guilds [like hell am i going to call them servers, we're gonna use the API name], It is based on discord's nodejs API because at the time it was one of the only choices for officially vetted APIs. It rarely falls off of IRC but it often falls off of discord.

The reason is that the websocket things are not really designed for extremely long connections it seems, I'm not the only person in my area that seems to have this problem either...

bots just... don't seem to stay connected.

I think the solution will be easy, just having it watch and reconnect... but the thing is, while reconnection is needed, it shouldn't be needed to keep a session alive.

With protocols like IRC, as long as you and the server can talk properly, your client is responding with the right responses... it won't die or time out.

HTTP streaming protocols seem to have this happen a lot, I /THINK/ its because of whatever frontend server [due to how these things often work] is proxying to the websocket capable app. I've seen it time and time again.


Tell me, why is using HTTP so "good" when you have problems like this? ones that I didn't have until HTTP based protocols because mainstream?

I don't really care if the answer isn't IRC, so long as the answer IS something that is better. and it has to be objectively better under the hood too because if it isn't, when you start doing more interesting things, the prettyness of the UX just disappears away.

The 90s, the peak of technological innovation... on the cassette tape.