Which part of “set up and run your own instance” is unclear you whiny buffoon!?

Wow! Someone who gets “choice” and “freedom of association”!

I’m sorry. Does actually having to put a bit of skin in the game offend you? You’d rather the people spending the actual money and doing the actual work just bow to your whims?

Compassionate fucking BUDDHA are the anti-defederation crowd a bunch of entitled, whiny asses!

Usually it’s just the self-righteousness instinct…

I love¹ telepathic people who can read other people’s minds and post on their behalf.

¹ This is sarcasm. I hate the delusional who think they’re telepaths.

So it’s freedom of association you’re opposed to then?

By “BOFH that happens to run the server” you mean “the volunteer whose money, time, and effort are being expended on your behalf”, right?

This is the single most entitled opinion I’ve ever heard in this. “I, the person who bears none of the pecuniary, temporal, or psychological costs of running the server insist that ‘the free software ethos’ means I get what I want on someone else’s computer.”

Fuck that noise.

If you want a server run your way that federates with the people you want to federate with, put your own skin in the game. Run your own server with your own rules. THAT is the actual free software ethos: DIY if you don’t like the way someone else does it.

The free software ethos is the punk ethos, not the hippy dippy shits ethos.

Replace “communist tankie shit” with “CSAM” or “torture porn” or such and see if that makes any sense to you (keeping in mind that all content from your “whitelisted” stuff is stored on the server owner’s hardware).

Ah. Idiot assumptions over and above idiot collaboration.

sh.itjust.works seems to attract the dullest.

Whatever you say, child. Buh-bye.

Say “I don’t know what a wumao is” without using those words.

I swear, I’m seeing the western equivalent of wumaos servicing Meta here. Only at least the wumaos got paid; it made sense. These idiots are doing the labour for free!

I am mocking cryptobro fantasies and their favoured lines of communication.

And yet has overwhelmingly cryptobros.

Again, when you can show me a cryptobro concentration lower than 99.44%, I’ll take nostr seriously. And when you can show it not turning into a Hellhole worse than Xhitter and Farcebook combined because of the very philosophy underpinning it, then I’ll think it’s actually worth looking at. (Hint: this is not possible.)

Until then I’ll call it what it is: a place for cryptobros to wank to their faux-libertarian fantasies.

You always need key management if you have decentralized authentication.

You always need key management if you have decentralized authentication.

When I see nostr users that number more than, say, six who aren’t also cryptobros, I’ll drop the nostr disrespect. Until then … 🤷‍♂️

I’m pretty sure that 99.44% of nostr is cryptobros.

Matrix […] has a kind of rough UX and, IIRC resource-intensive server software. We should work toward improving that.

Except that I get the vibes from the Matrix community that the shit UX is part of the attraction because it does a wonderful job of gatekeeping.

I don’t hold out much hope for Matrix working out ever, but perhaps someday someone will use it as inspiration for making something that doesn’t suck.