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1. futureBoyfriend (deadsuperhero@social.nasqueron.org)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2017 05:10:17 UTC futureBoyfriend

   • Danyl Strype
   • mike

   @strypey @mike Mike has a seasoned background in developing and advancing many of the core concepts of federated networking. In that time, he has seen and put up with a lot of bullshit from people.

   He is a wellspring of knowledge, but occasionally comes across as abrupt and possibly grumpy. Ultimately, he means well, and if you're patient with him, he'll occasionally drop extremely good insights.

   Blocking him would be a mistake.

   • Bob Mottram repeated this.
   • Bob Mottram (bob@social.freedombone.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2017 09:32:32 UTC Bob Mottram

     • Danyl Strype
     • mike
     @strypey @deadsuperhero I pretty much agree with @mike there. I was on Friendica, Redmatrix and then Hubzilla for a long time and so I can appreciate the problems and the amount of effort that he put in. Certain other projects were exceedingly difficult to federate with and there was never any agreement on a privacy model. This means that Hubzilla mostly didn't federate with non-Hubzilla nodes. To do so would just be to break the privacy model in horrible ways, and also the "magic auth" system which remains pretty innovative.
     
     If you've done the amount of work mike has and then someone starts criticising the federation details, given how difficult it has been, I think "send a pull request" is the most appropriate response.