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Cake day: July 14th, 2023

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  • under normal circumstances, posts, comments, and, yes, even edits should propagate through federated instances within seconds, minutes at the most.

    however

    due to several factors, chief among which are version skew, network lag, server load, software bugs, and a couple of other problems, data propagation has not always been so smooth or working as expected. sometimes there’s a backlog of federation data or some data needs to be migrated during an upgrade… or something else…

    it depends on the post/comment and the instance it’s on and where you’re viewing it from, and a lot of factors that are getting worked out. long story short: it should work, sometimes it doesn’t, but it’s getting better.

    ¯\_(ツ)_/¯










  • Again, your comment stated that the authors are kooks.

    Again, if you have specific evidence or quotes as to why you think this man is crazy, I’m all ears.

    ah, I’ve identified the problem-- either you’re illiterate, or you think I’m stupid enough to be distracted by your obvious trolling to notice you’re trying to put words in my mouth.

    enough with the Sealioning

    Sealioning (also sea-lioning and sea lioning) is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity (“I’m just trying to have a debate”), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter. It may take the form of “incessant, bad-faith invitations to engage in debate”, and has been likened to a denial-of-service attack targeted at human beings. The term originated with a 2014 strip of the webcomic Wondermark by David Malki, which The Independent called “the most apt description of Twitter you’ll ever see”.









  • espousing capitalist principles to fight capitalism while criticizing someone for engaging in capitalism simply because you dislike/disapprove of their choice of smartphone rings a bit disingenuous to me.

    a single choice by a single person isn’t really “fighting capitalism” in any meaningful way, certainly not by doing anything more than making a symbolic gesture. Fairphones do much more to support user privacy, open-source software, the right to repair, and consumer choice than anything else.

    edit: spelling