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  • Why not be the change you wish to see, then? Fork it, and surely they will come.

    That or Linus’ work is of high enough quality that people are willing to put up with his crass behavior.

    Also, somewhat unrelated, but comparing Linus to Elon is a nonstarter. Elon has money, but contributes little more than ego past that. Linus, on the other hand, actually gets his hands dirty. I don’t care for his behavior, but I do respect someone who actually does the work.







  • Right, so if I can see A and C from my vantage, but from A I can see ABC, and from C I can see ACD, then I have to view the same chain of replies from several different vantage points to get the whole conversation.

    The inconsistency is that you can’t see ABCD in a comment chain from every vantage point.
    Imagine if Discord was like that… it’d have folded a day after it released lol.

    I think the solution is for federation to be bilateral. If A defederates from B then A cannot see a B article and B cannot see an A article. No more fragmented comments, all comments are sent to the server the post was made on, and read from there as well. This half-copy sometimes-delayed fragmentation is just insanity even at this small of a scale, and I don’t see a way to scale it without the house of cards falling.