CIRCLE WITH A DOT

Guys, stop telling me Discord is janky. Maybe it is, I don't know, but surely not in the "different people only see different subsets of posts" kind of way like we got going here

Federation isn't a solution because it adds the requirement to know how to host an instance. Delegating the hosting to providers defeats the purpose of decentralization. True federation like here is janky. Bluesky-style federation suffers centralization of power.

I don't think it's possible to get "mainstream communities" away from Discord to any open alternative. Not after they got a taste of maximal convenience.

For forums to make a comeback, they'd have to reach the same level of convenience. People would like to have a single account which allows them to browse forums and use them without having to register over and over again. People who want to run a community shouldn't be required to have technical knowledge about how to host a forum software. And of course, things generally shouldn't be janky.

Those are the minimal requirements which are only viable if a single huge provider runs the show.

AAAAA - Volpeon ​​

RE: infosec.exchange/users/astrid/statuses/116043809090680535

I don't think I'd use Alpine.js for projects as complex as those we do at my job, but it's really great for things like the lightbox on my website

@grimmy I love weird projects like this

I'm posting because I don't feel like ending the day yet ​​

People tell me about XMPP and IRC, but what they forget is that my original post includes the impossible task to get people you know to move there.

Can't we just go back to AIM or ICQ or whatever when software wasn't gamified to hell yet

@catsalad How about [ Unable to decrypt message]