Olives @olives@qoto.org

Social networks like Twitter had (I'm not commenting on X) something like that where someone would find these really super random posts from a year ago and they'd comment on them.

With the implementation of search in Mastodon, I assume a bunch of people are going to start responding to really random posts from three months ago? Lol.

Black God / Kurokami / 黒神. Even though there is an #anime of it, and a manga was published in Japan, it was actually created by a Korean. Surprising, huh?

It's a strange story about people with superpowers, fights, and doppelgangers.

The 黒 means black (kuro /くろ).

The 神 means god (kami / かみ).

Looking at the code of one fediverse implementation, I find it funny how there is a flag on a user for whether they are "deleted", when that is very much not what deleted means (unless, it's there for tombstoning*).

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tombstone_(data_store)
Tombstoning is where you have an "empty record" which exists for the purpose of propagating the delete across a distributed system.

Lol, I was actually surprised I didn't get one voting for "No" sooner.

While I can see the appeal in full free speech (and that's pertinent when dealing with the government), I can also kind of see the appeal in aiming for less meanness (and leaving free expression otherwise intact).

I'm not really sure how to solve that first one, although it could probably be improved.

The only thing I can think of is maybe to get the client to send a request to the original server (or a mirror?) for the content, if the profile is stale / incomplete (how to check this?).

I don't think that one is a good idea though.

The first one probably comes down to lazy federation. This shouldn't be confused with a lazy developer, that is a different concept.

The second one might be something being unreachable for a while...? I dunno.

I saw a few people on the fedi confusing federation bugs for user behavior.

One thought there were lots of users with empty profiles who go around posting on things and they were mad about them. In reality, you can guess.

Another was confused about someone who keeps following and unfollowing and following and got mad at them.

Maybe, this could be communicated better...? Or better yet, fix the bugs, lol.

More anime is even further ahead now, lol.

A really strange idea passed through my mind, lol. Modifying the Gitlab, Gitea, or something, and getting it to federate the issues and commits.

Let's see what Github alternatives there are out there.

There's Gitlab but the UI is a bit busy. Hmm... Well, let's keep looking.

It's funny how quite a few of these look just like Github (i.e. Gitea). Well, I guess someone will already be familiar with how they work.

Is there a really good one I'm missing here?