Hello everyone!

Evelyn, who Just. Can't. Even.

@alyx @cwebber Isn’t that the purchase that made John Mastodon the richest man in the universe?

Mark Levison

@Raccoon
and @chawopro You might have missed the joke.

Check @cwebber account bio.

Odds are Christine knows more about it than anyone else on the planet.

wlo

@cwebber how do you keep getting away with this

Christine Lemmer-Webber

thank you @evan do you know anyone who worked on it

Christine Lemmer-Webber

@wizard getting away with what I'm new here I just made this account

Sam Whited

@Gorfram @alyx @cwebber only in this universe though; I hear there's a richer version of him with a goatee in the evil mirror universe.

Ben Ramsey

@mlevison @chawopro @cwebber At least @Raccoon is being super-friendly about it! Great post! A++++ would ask for your help again!!

Raccoon at TechHub :mastodon:

@ramsey @mlevison @chawopro @cwebber
Yeah, as I said, I didn't realize anything more than the account age when I copy-pasted that: I send that to every new account I see.

Raccoon at TechHub :mastodon:

@cwebber
Yeah, I copy-paste the welcome with hashtag advice to every new account I see. Somehow I saw the account age and something about being a software person when I glanced at the bio, but not the parts about actually knowing the answer to this, lol.

Raccoon at TechHub :mastodon:

@badumtss
Yes, I was baited. lol

I'm gonna leave it up because I think it's a good answer.

Asta [AMP]

@[email protected] ActivityPub is like a sort of casual bar where you're screaming about what you're doing all the time and a bunch of randos in the bar that you don't know are like "what the fuck is wrong with you, why would you do that?" and then you smash pints over each other's heads and desperately wish you could somehow block the other person out of your vision. All while the bartender pretends not to notice.

Asta [AMP]

@[email protected] but then there's also a corner where people are doing like, a James Joyce book club. The bartender immediately kicks them out.

Raccoon at TechHub :mastodon:

@jami @cwebber
In my defense, I wouldn't call it "Mansplaining" when it's a woman in software responding to another woman in software's seemingly genuine question about a software she works with.

I think we overuse that term: "Mansplaining", to me, is typically when a man assumes a woman doesn't know things, because she's a woman, and explains, poorly, the thing.

Either way, I didn't see who it was and treated her as a new user: I think it's important that the first "I am new and what is this?" gets a welcoming and informative response.

Rocketman

@cwebber I really don’t understand why everyone is always going on about this activity pub.

Myself, I much prefer my passivity sofa.

Joakim Fors

@cwebber It's actually Felineverse and CativityPub; created to spread cat images across the world on caturdays. However, when the final draft was saved a cat walked across the keyboard which introduced some spelling errors so here we are.

GunChleoc

@cwebber Boosted to help your server federate

Quantium 40

@cwebber Imagine a crazy business model where someone puts a lot of effort to provide a platform "for free" and then people use it and think themselves as absolutely clever because they just take and never pay a cent. But, they are not aware that actually the business guys take all their private information and make tons of money from targeted advertising. Fediverse is exactly that but without the money and the advertising and much more crazy business guys who don't actually have a business!

GunChleoc

@faoluin @cwebber And delivered by IP over Avian Carriers

Emelia 👸🏻

@cwebber ActivityPub? Don't you mean ActivityPug?

Mikalai

@PastaThief @cwebber
normal people don't read specs, and respond to questions immediatelly. I want to live in the world where emotional impulse to help is never mocked. I also don't want to force everyone to read all context, like nerd's brain tells, feels kinda selfish.