<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> It depends on the usecase. Is this a publishing system or a chat system (yes, I know one of your major projects is persistent logging for chat systems but I haven&#39;t been awake long enough to frame this better)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.fa-fo.de/@fafo" class="u-url mention">@<span>fafo</span></a></span> I don&#39;t even know what I&#39;m looking at here, but there&#39;s something menacing about it.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@rain" class="u-url mention">@<span>rain</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@recursive" class="u-url mention">@<span>recursive</span></a></span> my reason is that I really don&#39;t want build products in the source tree, especially given how you can&#39;t remove anything from the history</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> a sentiment I see on fedi is &quot;posts are impermanent, just wipe them&quot; and I couldn&#39;t disagree more. why would I bother to make posts that are worthless</p>

<p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/@ryanc/113387231553222876" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">infosec.exchange/@ryanc/113387</span><span class="invisible">231553222876</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.fa-fo.de/@fafo" class="u-url mention">@<span>fafo</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://nerdculture.de/@M" class="u-url mention">@<span>M</span></a></span> yeah</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.fa-fo.de/@fafo" class="u-url mention">@<span>fafo</span></a></span> what in the name of fuck.</p>

<p>- The fediverse is almost optimized for tricking people into starting instances without realizing how the resource/moderation burden will scale as it grows</p><p>- The fediverse therefore makes the single chief operators of a server a single point of failure</p><p>- Offers those operators no options for dealing with overextension/burnout/cost growth other than shutting down </p><p>- And offers the users no facility for saving either their usernames or their post histories when the shutdown inevitably happens</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@rain" class="u-url mention">@<span>rain</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@recursive" class="u-url mention">@<span>recursive</span></a></span> then I think we have fundamentally incompatible views of what &quot;like Dropbox&quot; means</p><p>I&#39;m sure you have a good point but I don&#39;t hope to understand what it is</p>