Oh wow, I’d forgotten all about geek code.

Are you being human trafficked?

Forum packages have been around for at least 20 years. I’m terms of forum like features the only difference is federation.

Its convenience. 99% don’t care about anything apart from getting what they need. The blackout caused them inconvenience so its therefore annoying. Its the same attitude that can appear when workers take strike action.

The Meta Plan:

1. We’re going to use ActivityPub because we love the Fediverse!!!
2. Now we’re live, here’s some improvements to AP, now they’re not standard but we’re working closely with the AP guys. It would help if you all pleaded with them to accept these changes- they’re just to make things better!
3. Yay! All the changes were implemented and we’ve formed the AP Council, we might invite some of the old AP guys to it.