stop inventing new binary serialisation formats.

fields were not supposed to have variable widths.

years of protocols, and yet no real-world use found for schemaless codecs.

wanted to serialise application state anyway, as a laugh? We had a tool for that: it was called C STRUCTS

"reject non-canonical encodings. support mixed endianness" - statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged!

These are REAL parsers implemented by REAL programmers:

Segmentation fault (core dumped)
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@retr0id do you have an idea about why I can't open that post on your home instance? Seems to happen a lot with Pleroma lately.

@Amikke My web interface does not support unauthed access, sorry the error messages aren't better
@Amikke I get a lot of traffic, for example, one of my threads just got boosted by foone (awesome!) but my server is kinda bursting at the seams serving all the requests, along with its other duties.

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I have my own instance (not the one I'm replying from now) on an old G4 MacMini and when I hear its fans spinning up at night, I know that someone must've followed me 😂
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