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
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
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
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.
I randomly picked one of her contributions and it reads like a travel blog of a random canadian[1], a second pick brought me to a dead french woman[2] whos claim to fame is being "one of the first" to do something
By the sound of it Jess's reputation is so obnoxious people simply can't be arsed to contest her article creations anymore
These people don't have the inhouse skills to maintain a simple SQL server, let alone optimize their schema (MySQL being too slow to sum/group 11m records in a timely manner? Please.)
Attempting to make your own db while being ignorant of competing products would be an absolute disaster