every passing year the platform gets more and more hostile to non-americans. I gave up trying to argue and deleted my account. No regrets, modern-day documentation is more than sufficient

In which way? I'm not American and have never had any issue (4,500 reputation, so quite a lot of usage)

What do you do when the software you use does not actually have "modern-day" documentation?

I'm an American and I've been the recipient of hate on SO too.

>What does "pushing woke politics" mean?

Pushing for global use of the US's anachronistic racial science over more nuanced alternatives such as ethnicity/nationality

Could you provide some examples? Be specific about the parts which you think are scientifically relevant.

Well, if I'm reading this all correctly, there's no audit-trail for those funds. So, no we can't provide examples.

The person I was replying to made a bunch of allegations which had to be based on something, right? If you’re going to attack them for something they did there has to be some kind of specific event you could point to.

That can't be true though.

OP knows they are pushing woke policies, so that information is out there.

more naptime is a political cause worth fighting for

mastodons biggest shortcoming remains the lack of e2e encrypted DM's. Giving volunteer internet janitors access to your private messages is a recipe for disaster

The internet is awash in encrypted private messaging systems, why does Mastodon need one too?

Because of the friction starting a public convo, going to DM, then negotiating which private messaging system to then switch to again. Most people won't bother.

Having person-to-person messages be unencrypted is irresponsible in 2022, the same way offering a web service for public consumption without TLS is. Encryption should be the default and the user should not have to even consider the threat of their messages being read by unauthorized parties.

The most irresponsible thing you can do is make a security promise you can't keep. Mastadon's usage is overwhelmingly browser-based; achieving reliably end-to-end security between users of browser-based apps remains an open problem. Taking a short step back from that: if you're going to try to give people secure messaging, you should have that goal from the start. Matrix is a good case study in what happens when you don't do this.

You can still high-horse Mastodon: just tell them they shouldn't have private messaging at all. That seems like a reasonable take.

Since matrix is an open standard and everything would it be possible to build a matrix client into mastodon? That would be really interesting, if it became a plug and play messaging client for open source projects that include some sort of DMs.

> the user should not have to even consider the threat of their messages being read.

Could you clarify whom you hope that a message should be able to be read by?

- the intended recipient(s)

- parties involved in the intermediate storage system

- middleboxes / parties in the transmission path

- unintended recipients that the intended recipients forwarded the message to accidentally

- unintended recipients that the intended recipients forwarded the message to maliciously

Whichever follows the principle of least astonishment.

1 is obvious and I think it is bad faith that you are asking.

I just included it as a default case. If you want to assume malintent, that's on you. The more interesting cases are the last two because they reveal that messaging cannot be made private because you cannot prevent the counterparty from leaking information.

Agreed. IMO the Mastodon DM system doesn’t need to do much more than to enable: “Here’s my handle on messaging service X, let’s continue there.”

There are plenty of actual chat apps out there like Signal or Matrix that you should be using for this sort of thing. Neither Twitter or Mastodon are the right tool for this.

I don't mean to be snarky but for someone born and raised in an irreligious majority nation, this does read as if written by someone who's lost their mind

It's popular in finance, which pulls up the average pay.

Also in all sorts of data engineering, productionized data science, etc.

Functional languages seem to have a smaller talent pool and higher salaries.

You can write procedural Scala, but if that’s the case, you might as well use modern Java.

I guess the fact that it's rarer than other languages, but I have no idea.

Just a guess: perhaps that it’s more applicable to large use cases and at clients that are much more likely to be profitable and therefore able to pay?

Scala is big in the financial sector, which means average salaries for Scala developers are going to trend higher.

as long as it's not homogenously american it'll be a good thing

americans are pretty heterogenous, in all ways relevant to this situation.

What makes you say that? You can not possibly argue that 1 region in the world has people with all worldviews covered.

There are many more viewpoints than the American's.

*Self reported MAU. With no-way of outside verification as brave doesn't have it's own user agent string

HTTP is a request based protocol. I make a request and you can choose to accept or reject it. If the host breaks the social contract by polluting the connection with unsolicited content it's entirely within the users prerogative to block such requests.

kinda weird to see US demographics superimposed over amsterdam. Couldn't spot a single blonde/redhead

The area in question is super touristy so that's not too weird :)

The lack of cyclists passing through is weirder IMO.