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Can you do things that will get the other team killed, even if indirectly? Like get a particularly mean dinosaur to wander into their area.

My own personal interest was beyond running a server. It was getting features / policies into the software. I’m actually starting to think that developer’s politics aren’t the real issue. Might be open source dynamics are the real issue. Saw a lot of things in the bug tracker of someone saying, “Oh yeah that’s a good idea” and I thought whatever feature it was, might pull people into more chaos in various ways. Chaos meaning, people don’t stick with communities they want to continue to be in. It may be an inherent problem with writing software that uses the Fediverse. People may have rather different ideas about what the Fediverse is “for”. Like I’m not trying to look at thousands of GIFs a day. I think that’s what’s basically wrong with social media. Big groups, big volumes of shallow posts, that mainly works towards advertizing business models and reducing the “user’s” participation mainly to the act of “watching the new TV”.

What feature is missing from KBin or Lemmy to make them forums? KBin superficially looks like a forum, but I only just got here. My next step is to find out whether Lemmy devs are tenable people to work with on forum software development. They are Marxist-Leninists and run a M-L instance or two, it seems. I’m a socialist but not M-L and I’ve got run out of plenty of “tankie” subs on Reddit, so I’m worried about that. I don’t enjoy being called liberal or a bootlicker.

That’ll be a good problem to have though, because it means this platform will have been a massive success.

I dunno, could be a repeat of Eternal September.

How does the federation work from a high level?

Well, Captain Kirk goes out on the flagship and kicks some serious alien ass. Contrary to popular belief, he doesn’t usually screw it, but he is almost contractually obligated to have his shirt torn. Spock bails him out with derisions of Something Something Diplomacy, I forget exactly what. And that’s how the federation works. At a high level.

At a really high level, they all get zapped by plant spores and turn into hippies.

I wonder how much sleep early network people lost about communicating through the ether. Or late 19th century physicists for that matter.

And you can’t language the way people use police either!

without having to use another awful ‘-verse’ word.

They will stop using prefixes. They will just say verse.

Burkina Faso?

“The Fediverse is stupid.”
“The Fediverse is stupid.”
Negativeland said Christianity is stupid.
Christianity is stupid.
Communism is good!
[then a lot of chanting and noisemaking]

Until they try to find it on Reddit and they cry. Cry!

Call it Verse. You’ll win the branding wars.

Now that gets me thinking, what the hell was Wally World anyways? Was that a Chevy Chase thing?

Well Kermit the Frog said it’s a myth. But every time he said it, a miss showed up.

“Hey, Soviet SSR! In Russia you don’t federate. Federation does you!”

Didn’t mean to be so accurate…

That sounds a lot like Pier 1 Imports!

You could go all The Orville and call it the Zipperverse.

“forum”. It’s correct. Short for web forum. Social media forum if you really want to get picky.

I dunno, the Ferengis are neighbors and they’re damn greedy.

The Centauris I hear are pretty nice.

What if I want to call it Freddy?