@deadsuperhero Mainly it's just that the article's authors tend to be mostly unaware of their US-centric biases, and some of their worldview also leaks slightly when they attempt to categorize others.
@djsundog With minor exceptions for a few people who are still trying to import Twitter culture, I've been quite happy to see that most of the new people are actually respecting the culture instead of trying to colonize it. It makes me optimistic for the healing ability of this whole thing, as a place to be people, to unlearn bad behaviors imprinted by capital, and to detoxify. Two days of ironic shitposting giving way to earnest and wholesome posts as people slowly get settled in, is beautiful.
@mmn@dansup@bob I think there's a difference between letting 3rd parties build tools vs. building them yourself and packaging them in by default.
For example. some vain Instagram users download apps that show graphs of follows, unfollows, etc. But users have to seek those out and developers have to build those. Should the pixelfed project's official stance be to enable or encourage that use case? Implementation and design will matter.
literally anything helps, i've since gotten set up with a computer but would very much appreciate any aid given. i'd like to be able to contribute more to open-source projects and do more creative work again!
@bobjonkman Hmm, but there are plenty of alternative SMS providers like Twilio or those "free SMS" apps you can download from an app store and possibly pay a cheap subscription to. Even Google offers Google Voice. The only difference between SMS and IP chat is having to cross over a carrier at some point (a moot point with RCS, which is also over IP).
Since the Universal Profile specs are available for anyone, it's possible we can see third-party RCS apps like we do for SMS apps.