There was an unflattering picture of Caitlyn Jenner on the cover of one, with the claim that she's detransitioning. A quick search brings up all sorts of articles debunking this, but in a way the damage is already being done. People just browse the headlines, and that misinformation slips into the subconscious of the nation.
@kaniini please fucking make openwebauth work with fediverse platforms. It's a great concept and doesn't rely on federating a million things everywhere.
The big aha moment for me was several years ago, when I switched from Diaspora. Diaspora as an app relies on federating everything, from status updates to photos to likes to profile data. This is all fine and dandy, except that the way it is implemented makes it very difficult for Diaspora to adequately approximate the feature set of Facebook.
Photo albums, for example, cannot exist with proper hierarchy. What are you going to do, federate every album and every photo in it? Embed reference data to point to a top level "photo album" object? Then send references to those albums to all of your contacts?
One thing that Hubzilla does super well is that it only sends just enough data to build a stream and accept interactions. All the fancier higher-order feature components and their data live on the remote instance you're looking at, instead of pulling those resources into your own instance.
I've been doing it all on my own for quite a while, it's hard to do everything yourself, and there are probably domain experts out there that know way more than I do about specific platforms!
I grew up in the smack dab middle of Illinois. I'm literally a boy from a village. It's a farming town that's basically a town square and a few churches plus some suburbs.
The whole thing looks like something out of the 50's, it's kind of both old-fashioned and modern at the same time. It's upper-middle class, but also somehow blue-collar, rural, and backwoods.
This paradox applies not only to the landscape, but the culture as well. The population is liberal and conservative, Christian beliefs are dominant but fragmented, homes are often extravagant but cheap. Everybody in town waves hello at you.
The football players could be kind of crude, homophobic, and sexist, but also kinda gay. Most of the football team was also in choir and theater, and exploring drugs and sexuality on a curve way ahead of the rest of the class body.
I remember that town as being small, beautiful, and with a peaceful remoteness that I haven't found anywhere else. I miss it sometimes. The irony is that I could probably afford to buy a house there.