Corn Woman 🌽 @WomanCorn@schelling.pt

Hi everyone, and welcome to The Union Place! This Mastodon instance is intended as a home for all #union members, friends, and allies, across the #fediverse.

We're just getting started, so pardon the dust and the lack of customization, I've got some feelers out for images, but welcome all input and feedback!

It's fun to watch all the mastobabies have their first instance drama. Oh no poopoo.ninja is a Nazi instance because they said "touch grass"? Oh now you're calling the poc lesbian admin of banana.boat a colonizer? You kids have fun.

Anti-Racist Action Points of Unity (Mastodon Edition)

1. We don't go where they go, we stay home, going where fascists go would make us exactly like fascists. We believe in ignoring them and running away from them. Always let nazis have the street, because streets are a nazi thing now and if you use them you're a nazi.

2. We don't rely on the cops or courts to do our work for us. Instead, we become the cops and the judge and jury of the fediverse. We must rely on our blocklists to keep each other safe and pretend the fascists are defeated.

3. Non-sectarian defense of other antifascists, unless of course they federate with disqordia dot space. An injury to me is an injury to all, but an injury to you is fine.

4. We support abortion rights and reproductive freedom, I don't think we've abandoned that one yet at least, we're still something resembling leftists right? We are committed to building a broad strong movement against discrimination against the admins of monads dot online and rage dot love, also transmisogyny isn't real. We want a walled garden where we have all the clout. We intend to win!

There's a really big problem with how Mastodon and Pleroma handle servers disappearing for a while.

By default, both daemons will "pause" delivery to remote instances that they haven't seen or been able to deliver to in 7 days. When delivery is paused, even sending DMs to/from test users won't result in a request being sent out.

Delivery is unpaused when you hear from the other server.

See the problem?

If a fediverse server has connectivity issues for a little over 7 days, nobody it used to federate with will send it any messages until they hear from it. And that server won't send any messages to remote servers until it hears from them.

While Mastodon has a way to manually unpause delivery, there is NO indication to the end user that they need to contact an admin to make this happen. If you were to, for example, send a DM to a paused instance after it comes up, you won't get any sort of error saying that delivery is paused, but at the same time, no job will ever be made to deliver your message.

Pleroma does not appear to have a way to unpause delivery at all, meaning that if this happens between two pleroma instances, it's essentially a suspension that neither admin can lift, or even see.

This, by the way, does not fix itself if one of the servers becomes aware of the other again through things like boosts. It *must* be manually cleared by an administrator.

How many instances can you never talk to again, because you or them disappeared for a week?

Anyway, please boost, and maybe someone who works on either project will see this. Eugen actively refuses my reports.

For years I had such a hard time explaining to *anyone* why this ActivityPub spec we were working so hard on mattered

When you think about it Elon paid 44 billion just to advertise the importance of the fediverse, gotta give that guy some credit, real generous of him

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100 Mastodon myths:

1. Mastodon is hard.

FALSE. It’s a "soft"ware. Not hardware.

2. You have to use Linux to post on Mastodon.

FALSE. FreeBSD and OpenBSD are also supported.

3. You need to learn to use the Vim editor before posting on Mastodon.

FALSE. There’s also an emacs plugin.

4. Mastodon is only for computer nerds.

FALSE. As you can see, we sometimes try to make jokes that everyone could understand.

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