When something that big barely turns a profit, I immediately suspect Hollywood accounting.

But if true, they made a game, covered their costs, left the company with an asset that can keep making sales, and probably developed their in-house talent and tooling along the way. That’s a lot of points in the “win” column.

Wise leaders understand that, in business, victory means getting to try another project with the same team, next year. Failure means disolution of the business. Earn enough years and projects with the same team in a row, and maybe you take one of the big wins one of those years.

This is terrific. Thank you for starting this discussion.

I don’t think we can or should wait for individual users to make these decisions. Server admins are the ones who understand the risks and so should make this call. Guidance for server admins based on past experience (cough XMPP!) should be quite welcome.

I might refine the bit about altered API versions to really focus on the real problem: proprietary extensions. We probably want to leave the door open to try out additions to the spec that come with detailed RFCs.

But we know from XMPP that proprietary extensions are a huge problem.

Indeed. It is, I daresay, fucking perfect.

I’m planning the same.

That is true.

Let’s not defederate from every corporate player. Some of them can probably respect reasonable rules of civility.

But fuck Meta. We already know how this plays out.

We know there’s a huge wave of hatred and misinformation incoming. We’ve seen it on their other platforms.

Yeah. I’ll switch to an instance that is defederated from Threads, if mine doesn’t.

I left Meta’s other properties to avoid state sponsored hate speech. I won’t use a platform that gives hate speech a platform.

I don’t need to wait to know if Meta will do that. I already know.

Agreed. PornHub is probably a pretty solid representation of all web traffic. --Todo: insert obvious joke here–.

I missed the “PornHub” in the corner at first. Maybe I won’t share this with colleagues…

Smoking kills people.

After careful thought…I’ll yield to season 7 of DS9. You pulled out the big guns. Haha.

I liked the big reveal, but I can see how it wouldn’t be everyone’s cup of tea.

Yeah. Maybe too bold…I’m reconsidering my stance after some points were made about later seasons of DS9. Later DS9 seasons were fantastic.

Here’s a controversial opinion for y’all: The season of Discovery with the broken remnants of the Federation examining how and if to bring back the Federation is the best season of Trek ever made, to date.

I liked the crying alien. Trek is full of zany Q-like entities whose whims cause fallout for everyone else.

I actually did this once…I swear there was a good reason. I promise it wasn’t anywhere that mattered.

Edit: I think it was a personal journal repo that I wanted daily versions of, but couldn’t be bothered to actually check in.

I was being more evil than that, saying that if one is gonna push direct to main, might as well maximize the possible damage to everyone else’s branch.

Well that’s about half my commit messages that are going to be nonsense on weekends projects, now. Thank you!

Not with that attitude! /s

You forgot this --force flag.