Notices by kaniini (kaniini@mastodon.dereferenced.org), page 2

@lain

are there alternate pleroma UIs then?

@lain

i mean, the only reason i am running mastodon right now is because i do not know erlang/elixir and pleroma does not yet have post summaries or support for the sensitive post flag (parts of what mastodon calls the "content warning" mechanism, but more interesting when taken individually)

@lain

alternatively we can separate people's politics from the work they contribute, like every other project does.

i mean, i'm not a fan of dtluna but it's not like there's any legitimate reason to boot him out of your project or presumably you would have done so

@kiilas

i mean, if they did, that is good, but colour me skeptical.

however, the AGPL enforcement attempt against hiveway shows yet again that whoever @Gargron has running the mastodon twitter account, as well as much of the mastodon community, have a misunderstanding about what the AGPL requires.

AGPL only requires disclosure of the source code *running that specific install*, not the parent of the fork. so linking to http://github.com/hiveway would surely be AGPL compliant.

in other words, if you are running a Mastodon *fork*, your *fork* should actually be linking to the github repo of your fork.

with all of this said, obviously it would be polite to credit mastodon in a fork, so definitely do that.

but i'm not your lawyer, and this isn't legal advice.

haha hiveway was an ICO scam like i expected

hope the kid who started it enjoys his $108k

@Canageek no idea probably the same thing tbh

@dzuk MIT is always a good choice

@dzuk well I mean technically it's not wrong, chrome has gotten heavier and heavier over the years, but I don't think that's a good look for Microsoft

@gaditb

one is advertising on a website

the other is using private windows APIs to push ads at you using the OS itself

@gaditb

Google used private APIs in Microsoft Windows to advertise Chrome? When?

the correct way for a company to help grow the fediverse is to make an ActivityPub implementation easily installable with their operating system, not this crap hiveway is doing.

@Michcioperz

chrome usage is actually falling a little bit as firefox has regained users with quantum, too.

@Michcioperz

only 48% market share, nothing like IE's 99% market share in the 90s and early 2000s.

@Michcioperz

while true, i am pretty sure the EU is going to have fun with that one

@bob

i would say that is a complicated issue at best

overall they do (i have worked with their teams on this stuff) but sometimes classic microsoft marketing tactics slip through

@schestowitz

i don't think acknowledging that ioerror is a rapist is necessarily a bad thing, nor does it silence him

one of my business partners got a windows laptop to mess with and he sent me this.

clearly, microsoft has no shame.

https://mastodon.dereferenced.org/media/x7rOqeT2Xjil9GI_XeM

i sure love when a cofounder from something i am no longer involved in starts hassling me to do work for them for free

@schestowitz

blocking somebody does not inhibit their freedom of speech, you know better than that