@julian long live blobmoji and welcome to the emojoverse!

@alive @julian dig it!

@julian @laurenshof @ChrisWere @trwnh architecting for extensibility is always a win for community in my book because of the benefits you mention. I'd far rather see project leads take on the cons than becoming the bottleneck that prevents progress (a much bigger con in my book, particularly in the social software sphere)

@trwnh totally legit approach in my book! I'm most hopeful that if there's enough external pressure applied to the more reticent parties around more reasonable approaches to interop that eventually they'll cave rather than continue to deal with the barrage, but only time will tell ha

@trwnh it's not a decision I've made yet but I tend to think I'd lean towards acting on the Activities (I didn't go into it in the blog post, but I really think I want the client to actually implement AP C2S) and then catching them before delivery to nodes that are text mungers and make sure to send them the munged form that they need to make it easier for users not to think about? that's the balance beam I think I'd prefer to straddle, anyways, lol

@trwnh absolutely suspect there will/would end up being a number of "and now we need to handle this weirdness that these other folks insist on" scenarios, and some that I'd probably choose to push on and not support in more than the most cursory ways. I have a feeling that said looming pachyderm is going to have to start innovating in the space again or get left behind as folk build things that are closer to what people actually want.

@trwnh agreed! I figure if enough folk start walking these paths we might see more flourishing in the space. Thank!

@stefan agreed - a plugin architecture for mastodon would go a long way in empowering masto admins, operators, and users to shape their own experiences!

good morning fediverse.

I went and did it. I blogged.

"What Would MyActivityRouterKit and MyActivityClientKit Be?"

What Would MyActivityRouterKit and MyActivityClientKit Be? – Sundog's Blog

(blog.reclaim.technology)

cc @trwnh @j12i

@mdhughes horrendous

@quantumg because they're not being used in a secure context nor an adversarial environment.

@quantumg most programs should never need security fixes.

@brennen I think this is where the Divergent movie came from

@mdhughes we put up a forum tho

@brennen programs, not pets

if your ROM isn't filling your needs at some point, you look around and see if someone else has published a ROM that does what you now want. maybe you luck out and find a nice 2.2 ROM for whatever. if not, you start working on newROM 1.0. it's all good. it'll never go past 2.2.

all software should get 2.2 versions or so.

a couple major releases - the first one, and the one that adds all the stuff you didn't realize you'd really want when you were making the first one, and a couple bug fix passes to take off the cutting edges, and then you burn it to ROM and move on with your life.

@t54r4n1 we'll get there

@aschmitz I'm not sure the squirrels deserve that haha

@aschmitz I'm all for us collectively de-lawning as much as possible tbqh