Maciej Stachowiak 🇺🇸🇵🇱❤️🇺🇦 @othermaciej@qoto.org

@counternotions Do I only get to pick one?

@donmelton It is indeed, unfortunately the Apple omertà prevents me from pointing out just how full of shit some people are.

@paulhmason Lots of variation in exactly how and why and to what extent companies are a shit show though!

Sometimes I see people making confident claims about the decision-making process inside companies I’ve never worked at, and I have no way to know better so I assume they are right.

Then I see them making confident and totally wrong assertions about how Apple works and make decisions. And I wonder if I should put any stock in the rest of it.

@aparrish I was almost going to blame the standard (which tried to legalize <b> and <i> while pretending they are semantic, not presentational) but MDN has somehow made it seem more weird than the HTML spec itself.

@donmelton Yeah your post back then pretty much called it. Things seem a little less hectic now than in the immediate wake of the acquisition, but I think there is still a lot of slow burn disaster happening. Also continuing ad-hoc moderation decisions.

@donmelton What put me over: Musk's totally arbitrary moderation policies (I foolishly thought he might be serious about fostering more of a free speech culture).

Plus a few times when I read threads on Mastodon that seemed more thoughtful and engaging than threads about the same topic on Twitter.

It took me a while though because I overthought which server to join.

@donmelton Yeah it’s not so bad. I get to play with my cats now and then.

@donmelton Hey there! Long time no see. I’m enjoying the reminiscences about 20 years of Safari and hoping I’m not doomed to 20 more!

@deirdresm finally made the plunge!

@itohsnap Thank you! Fixed!

(I'm now stuck on transferring follows from Twitter before I start using this account more)

The World Wide Web Consortium (#w3c) is now a real legal entity. https://www.w3.org/blog/2023/01/2023-a-new-era-for-w3c/

Hello, Mastodon!