adminsag

Inexpensive intelligent technology has greatly increased the attitude that building systems of rules and even automated tools to filter out inconsistencies in style, fashion, expression - are a means to stability.

An "Alternate Reality" can be created just by introducing a tool into a process that enforces a standard. The tool does the gate-keeping and people trying to participate in a earnest fashion can become frustrated, run-off, by just having a certain enforcement standard and process in place.

Many times tools of enforcing standards can be blamed by people instead of the overall management / organization leadership being held accountable for excluding participation or making things so difficult that problems are not solved in a timely fashion. In some cases, it can even approach as a screening mechanism to filter out unwanted persons - in the name of standardization.

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3354

Over 20 years ago I was building social media messaging systems with an e-mail MTA.

e-mail MTA's send messages back to senders that their messages never got delivered. And Lemmy to Lemmy does no such thing. If you send a reply to someone, no "bounce" message comes if delivery fails.

It's sad to me to think users are there replying to each other like two ships passing in the night, no idea that the person even responded.

The queue not being saved on server shutdown and just tossing out undelivered messages to peers is something I never imagined. Again, e-mail systems in 1993 didn't just throw out delivery retry queues on a server reboot.