Notices by Alex Schroeder 🐝 (kensanata@octodon.social), page 45

@NicolasPetton I sometimes run into this when reading from the WOZ (German language) to my wife: instead of candidat·e·s they use KandidatIn (capital I in the middle of the word). But when reading, I need to say Kandidat or Kandidatin... Oh well, a small price to pay. After all, many words don't sound like what they look.

@halcy Thanks for Mastodon.py. I used it for my mastodon-backup tool.
https://github.com/kensanata/mastodon-backup

@ink_slinger If you have more specific questions about Switzerland, direct democracy, and capitalism, feel free to tag me. I live in Zurich.

@CobaltVelvet Assaulting!? Lucky me I haven't met /that/ maintainer, yet!

@deshipu Anyway, I followed your advice and changed the README as well.

@deshipu Undead maintainers?

@deshipu Finding that nobody is responding to issues and pull requests is such a sad waste of time.

What is the accepted way of indicating "this GitHub repo is abandoned"? Add the suffix "(abandoned)" to the repo name?

It seems that turning my #mastodon implementation for #bitlbee into a plugin was easy to do: https://github.com/kensanata/bitlbee-mastodon

@dredmorbius @woozle I see. Well, I was interested in these questions of your first post: "What's wrong with email?" and application integration.

@woozle @dredmorbius You mentioned spam, security, privacy, reliability, consistency, data sharing, privacy, authentication, integrity, trust—all of this is taken care of by instant messaging except for workflow. From my work experience, I think the calendar integration is the email killer feature.

@dredmorbius @woozle It doesn't really matter. Very few of my friends send me emails. Nobody in my family sends me emails anymore. Texts, holiday greetings, pictures: no email. In my circles, we've all moved to WhatsApp and Threema. I have Signal installed but don't use it. As far as I can tell, this means that the fight for email encryption using GPG for communicating with people is over. Writing better email clients is irrelevant. De facto, we no longer care about email.

@ckeen Yeah, now I'm a bit deflated regarding that plugin writing. In theory, it should be easy as Facebook and Discord already exist and I've used them myself.

@woozle @dredmorbius I guess you could implement a reputation system based on the number of followers you have (trust you) or likes you're getting—and all these ideas lead me to places I don't want to go. I fear reputation systems will always be gamed, abused, result in power asymmetries, be creepy in some way.

@woozle @dredmorbius I think for personal communication, text messaging has replaced email. Benefit: simpler UI, often with end-to-end encryption. Email is going to way of snail mail: used for bills and ads.