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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Give it time to settle down. Mastodon vs. Pleroma vs. Misskey, and recently Akkoma vs. Calckey, etc etc etc. all of this stuff isn’t really new. Use this. No use that.
    Just use what you like. I prefer /kbin. Likely will always. If someone judges me for using a software they don’t, then I probably didn’t want to talk to them anyway.
    Also keep in mind that /kbin was in very, very slow development for a very long time before a lot of things all happened at once. Very much a passion project. Like this is someone building a shed in their garage for their garden except somehow now suddenly 50 thousand people are in your garden and they all want in.


  • maybe I’ll eat my words later but I doubt it’ll be quite as big. I think a lot of people are underestimating just how little the average person cares, or knows to care. Been through the twitter migration, the reddit migration, and in both instances it wasn’t really a migration, it was more like a few people split off the main group and found a nicer home for themselves. And honestly, I think that’s enough.





  • Nah I do believe that it was right to open an issue, and also that the code should’ve been credited. But it is now. Also I mean… yes? How else would you expect for them to find the code? /kbin is a project with quite a few eyes on it now. If you upload a project that nobody looks at, of course things like that go unnoticed. Doesn’t make them less wrong.
    But all is well that ends well. If you do anything in the public, you gotta be prepared to deal with people who might not be the friendliest. That’s fine. I think defusing the situation like was done here and immediately fixing the problem was exactly how this kind of thing should have gone. It’s on all of us to defuse tense situations, whether we’re bringing up an issue or responding to an issue brought up by someone that might be offended. Kinda like how you should be driving defensively to avoid any accidents before they can begin to happen. I guess? Oh god I’m making too many driving analogies today I really gotta stop.
    [edit]: I’m also not trying to call out the person opening the issue. There are many ways why it might have been worded like that, including past experience. People are very complex and seeing just a snippet of them like this isn’t what we should immediately base all of our judgements on.


  • It’s alright. I do think the actual issue was worded perhaps a bit harshly and combative, and I think you responded correctly. Very much appreciate the accountability here. To be honest if anything, this probably gives me more faith in you in the long run. There are many ways you could have dealt with it, but as far as I can see you’ve dealt with the issue as honorably as you could have.
    Proper attribution can be tricky. We all learn. We all make mistakes. A lot of us will never release a project that makes it as far as yours has so even our issues don’t become even nearly as visible.
    Keep your head up and stay calm. You’re doing great. We got you.



  • It seems like a small thing you said on the side, but it is really important that you actually understand and can explain the code it gives you that you’re copying into your project. Otherwise you’re taking in an unknown, unmaintained and unexplained dependency, and that can lead to problems once that dependency fails.