tchambers@indieweb.social this, in a nutshell. The fediverse vid AP can support both A and B, and we can wax poetic about how one is superior to the other but both are legitimate UX decisions by their respective software stacks. I prefer B myself, of course. cc tommi@pan.rent j12t@j12t.social

chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca have been using a cheapo $15 data-only Fido plan for nearly a decade now, but maybe it's time I grow up and get a real plan LOL It's nice though, it's $15 for the sim and worldwide PAYG via VoIP.ms so I basically end up paying something like $16 a month. 3GB data is likely a deal breaker if you're not an elder millennial like me.

julian I also need User A to be able to edit User B’s existing posts and chat messages. How can I implement that? Maybe after all there’s a way to directly set permissions for all actions a user can perform? Thanks!

Tell me about it! There are some very cool people (i.e. thisismissem@hachyderm.io) working on content classification and tagging so that the burden of filtering out this kind of content isn't borne by server admins directly.

trwnh@mastodon.social but as:Public is not a dereferenceable URL. Needs to be special cased anyway. End of the day nothing changes, it needs special handling for all the cases anyway. cc silverpill@mitra.social

Does anyone remember way before Google had image recognition technology, the time they built a game that paired up random people on the internet, showed them each an image, and waited for them to both guess the same keyword? It was gamified human powered taxonomy for meaningless internet points and it was hilarious (at the time.)

Very interesting article! I have immense respect for jerry@infosec.exchange, he was one of the first people I found on the fediverse, and it's no wonder why, he's revered quite highly by others as being a generous and kind admin. I do want to point out one thing, and that is that Mastodon has some design decisions that make it rather resource and storage intensive. There are oodles of lighter software out there, some with even more features than Mastodon, and some with less. For example, snac.bsd.cafe (https://snac.bsd.cafe/) runs on Snac, which is fast as hell. I am going to guess that a not insignificant portion of Jerry's bill is caching assets. Mastodon likes to save everything it encounters, videos, images, avatars, everything... forever (though I imagine this is customisable). Most likely the assets are viewed a handful of times in one day and never seen again... but you'll pay to store it forever!