Yeah I agree. They’ve been quite open about everything so far and their main issue was the modding implications of open sign up. The tools just don’t exist yet to manage it effectively and keep the kind of community they want, so it’s just easier to defederate for now until they do. They have a dialogue open with shit just works and said that the admin of lemmy.world hasn’t replied to their message, but that it’s fine if they don’t want to talk too.

I am a bit disappointed that inter-instance sniping has started so early though. I personally am on both instances and am going to try and treat both in good faith for now

Not just them either. Netflix has an ad based tier now and I wouldn’t be surprised if other platforms have them too as they realise there’s a limit to how much they can realistically charge people. It seems like we’ve circled back to the start of cable

I usually get a bottle of whatever spirit he’s low on. Slightly ironic in that he has almost every spirit but the personal kind.

I find Jerboa times out quite a lot, never quite sure if my posts go through

It’s a chatroom

I was going to say that I wish there was a decentralised way of sending messages… And then I remembered text messaging is a thing.

Incredible how quickly these things become embedded in everyday life

Performing Carmina Burana with my choir this evening which should be fun. I am knackered though after an overnight jaunt to London so hoping I can sleep most of Sunday

It’s the humidity that I hate the most. It makes everything more difficult.

I love the wording of this, as if the cows were plotting their escape

Thanks! Hoping it cools down a bit before the performance, melting already