Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org

Reason really needs to disable its comment sections.

@joelmartinez Right, but at that scale, individual engineers shouldn't be responsible for those timelines. Even in that case, something like SCRUM with flexible, short-term targets serves them better.

But that requires competent enough management to properly translate the long-term goals into short-term sprints, and then translate actual progress back into the larger plan.

@freemo Oh, no worries; I figured you've probably been pretty busy.

It just seems to come up a lot with Twitter expats quoting Eugen's thread about it.

I do think it limits somewhat the maximum draw of the community... but what I'm learning is that that may be by design.

@freemo Thanks for thinking it through. I'm regularly gladdened that I stumbled into this server instead of another.

@anosou Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to affect follower feeds, just Local and Federated feeds. Followers still see unlisted replies in their feeds.

@mikerose As an apothecary owner, you must decide how much you're willing to *sacrifice* for success, dealing with the unintended consequences of your actions along the way.

@joelmartinez 100% agree with this. Individual engineers/artists should have *targets* not *deadlines*.

The only time deadlines are appropriate is when you want fast over good.

@chancerydaily I do wonder how much of it is the platform vs the audience.

Most of my triggers on the birdsite came from my local politicians picking culture war fights and their defenders.

@gpowerf Idk, maybe it's because I haven't managed a team in a while, but it feels like the "let's use videogames as an ice-breaker" thing comes off as inherently disingenuous, like many corporate team-building activities. (Not because of what you'd be doing; because of the long history of corporate cynicism in this area)

Even if you can figure out a way to make it work, clearing that hurdle of perception seems nearly impossible.

@jbf1755 Well, some folks can, anyway. Still not rolled out to most servers yet.

@gpowerf That sounds dangerously close to what Zuck is trying to do with the metaverse.

@mmasnick @riskybusiness I just assumed that was the eventual, inevitable, end of the success of the protocol-over-platform paradigm.

But I'm sure a thriving open and free subset will continue to exist too so 🤷‍♂️

Ugh... of course Quickbooks decides to roll out an interface overhaul that moves everything without improving on anything... and of course it doesn't even work on launch.

@KlasfeldReports Yes, but I also see those posts explicitly marked as unlisted, so...?

@marathon0 @ceoln Yeah, presumably. In my case, I use a browser on PC, so client and server version are largely synonymous.

Tried watching #Netflix's new show about the last #BlockBuster, especially because I like a number of the actors in it.

But they might as well just call it "Stereotypes: The Show".

It's *really* bad.

@marathon0 @ceoln I'm talking about the main branch.
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases

@ceoln I'm pretty sure I read recently that that's a standard feature of the new 4.0 RC. So, in theory, most clients should have it soon.