Mister Monster @mister_monster@social.privacytools.io

Fishing with some old man with one leg. You don't really get to meet interesting people living in a city, even though people are packed on top of each other like sardines, people get desensitized to other people and never really let anyone see who they are. People become like cracks in the sidewalk that you never remember, but when you walk out into nowhere to do nothing and run into someone else doing the same thing you pay attention.

Has anyone here messed with Hometown? It is a mastodon fork with IMO some pretty thoughtful feature additions.

That feeling when you think you've figured out how the world works and then you find out that humans are striped like tigers and bioluminescent.

Ever since I was a little kid all I wanted to do was build a tree house. I never got a chance to and I'm salty about it. But that same excitement about building interesting things has stayed with me my whole life.

I just want to say I love the fediverse. I've tried different social media and have never really liked anything, but I like this. I consider everyone I interact with regularly to be friends in some sense, and I've found it to be a positive environment generally speaking.

So maybe someone knows the answer to this. A few days ago I rage quit Riot.im/matrix.org and lo and behold 2 days later they release an update allowing cross signing to solve the friction with regard to verification. So I tried to test it out. Turns out, if you have no active session you cannot ever verify your sessions again, apparently. Unless there's something that is not so apparent?

Does anyone reading this know how to verify your only session in Riotx or riot desktop?

I spent social capital promoting Matrix and getting users within my social group, for what? So that they could spend more time verifying everyone on every device they own than they do talking to each other? Cross checking fucking emojis? Are you kidding me?

I want to know who that works on Riot/Matrix decided that an interactive key exchange mechanism was smart, then who decided to force a new, still interactive mechanism was better (it is not), because they have doomed Riot as well as Matrix to failure.

Man Rust is the shit! The compiler will build markdown documentation for you from comments in your code if you want it to! I have heard of stuff like this in other languages but never realized how powerful it is, a major problem in development is lack of documentation, and that is usually because the maintainers do not want to sit down and build documents. If you can do it while building though it makes everything so much easier.

Why is Riot such a dumpster fire? The Matrix protocol has so much potential and yet NewVector just manage to build hot garbage and prevent the protocol from gaining a wider user base. Why on earth is key exchange in Riot such a pain in the ass? If you sign out and then sign back in every single person in every single room you're in must manually verify your session. If you use it with any seriousness this absolutely breaks usability. Why did they introduce such a massive point of friction?

My timeline has been awfully slow today. Are you guys finally going outside or what?

@butterfly you're awesome. Keep being you.

Why am I unable to fetch media from social.privacytools.io with third party client applications? This is so strange, I cannot fetch any media at all through this account, not even my own avatar.

@jonah perhaps you're aware or need to be aware of it.

Would you eat this?