explain to me why I should care what the designer thinks anyway
Because they're the ones who ultimately control the future of the AP protocol. How it behaves today may not be how it behaves tomorrow. If their intent was to create communities that are isolated islands on the internet, they would've just made a new phpBB. So understanding their design philosophy is going to be important when it comes to running a community on that protocol.
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
What matters is what can be done with the protocol. If it goes off the rails we can just fork it. Defederation is baked in at this point.
And I can see you don’t have anything to back up your claim that federation is somehow an unimportant side feature of federation.
orgrinrt@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Man, you had a good point initially, but now you’re just really stubbornly defending a position you must realize is a really thin one. You’re arguing that they implied defederation isn’t important, but that’s a straw man you yourself constructed, not what they said at all.
I think you might have lost sight of what’s rational for pride or something.
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
All of this is pure projection. You don’t need to invent an elaborate fantasy about what a bad thinky person I am in order to make a point, if you have one.
And this fucking bullshit is just gaslighting. The thread is still here, at least for now. I can read it.