<2022-09-22T22:53:47.000Z> clobberpuss: this is going to sound like a very bizarre question
<2022-09-22T22:54:12.000Z> clobberpuss: i won't identify WHO i was, because the whole point of this account is to be able to shitpost anonymously, BUT
<2022-09-22T22:54:37.000Z> clobberpuss: i was formerly in a group created by the developer of a game engine called "Solaire"
<2022-09-22T22:55:08.000Z> clobberpuss: and i remember an alex gleason who was making a game in it about a vegan on a desert island
<2022-09-22T22:55:09.000Z> clobberpuss: is that you?
<2022-09-22T22:55:22.000Z> alex@gleasonator.com: Yep
<2022-09-22T22:55:30.000Z> clobberpuss: well shitsmall world
<2022-09-22T22:57:51.000Z> clobberpuss: did your game without violence get finished? i sorta dropped off the solaire scene after it started to slow down a lot
<2022-09-22T22:58:05.000Z> alex@gleasonator.com: Solarus
<2022-09-22T22:58:16.000Z> clobberpuss: yeeeeah, that's it
<2022-09-22T22:58:20.000Z> alex@gleasonator.com: I didn't finish it because I got sucked into building software for this
<2022-09-22T22:58:32.000Z> clobberpuss: sorry, i was jumping around a lotta engines, so i couldn't remember the name, haha
<2022-09-22T22:59:02.000Z> clobberpuss: well i would say i'm surprised, but i'm actually kinda not. from what i remembered about the few times we went back and forth, you were always big on "decentralized" software
<2022-09-22T22:59:17.000Z> clobberpuss: you actually introduced me to the idea that websites COULD be decentralized, haha
<2022-09-22T22:59:36.000Z> clobberpuss: anyways, sorry to bug you. just saw you come up in the recommendeds, and it struck a memory chord
<2022-09-22T23:01:31.000Z> alex@gleasonator.com: Not at all, but I want to know who you are now
<2022-09-22T23:03:38.000Z> clobberpuss: lmao, well, sorry, i'm trynna keep myself a sekrit. 
<2022-09-22T23:04:07.000Z> clobberpuss: THAT SAID, someone who is totally not me might approach you at some point in the future about soapbox, because someone who is not me might be interested in getting their own node set up
<2022-09-22T23:04:15.000Z> clobberpuss: B)
<2022-09-22T23:36:51.000Z> clobberpuss: okay, so, just read through the blogs you've written in the time split, and i guess i'll just go ahead and oust myself
<2022-09-22T23:37:09.000Z> clobberpuss: this is latchk3y, if you remember me. i was the pornographer on twitter, way back when
<2022-09-22T23:37:42.000Z> clobberpuss: i say this just to say that everything that's happened to you in the last couple months has been dogshit, and i'm sorry to hear it's happened. i've had some similiar situations here recently as well, but definitely not anything as extreme.
<2022-09-22T23:37:48.000Z> clobberpuss: i'm sorry about all of that.
<2022-09-22T23:38:30.000Z> clobberpuss: i felt like i needed to identify myself on the grounds that it seems like people have been jerking you around a lot lately
<2022-09-22T23:41:27.000Z> alex@gleasonator.com: ahh I remember!
<2022-09-22T23:41:32.000Z> alex@gleasonator.com: Nice to hear from you again
<2022-09-22T23:42:15.000Z> clobberpuss: pretty pretty please don't tell anyone i'm on poast. i already got people down my throat when i made a "latchk3y" on here, and then deleted it when i realized it's not an audience platform, it's a shitposting platform
<2022-09-22T23:42:28.000Z> clobberpuss: and immediately i was hit with "UHM WHY ARE YOU SUPPORTING ANTISEMITES?"
<2022-09-22T23:42:45.000Z> clobberpuss: lmfao
<2022-09-22T23:42:55.000Z> alex@gleasonator.com: Well, the good news is that I created most of the software Poast is running
<2022-09-22T23:43:38.000Z> alex@gleasonator.com: I'm a bit of a nazi sympathizer myself :)
<2022-09-22T23:43:43.000Z> clobberpuss: yeah, i've been browsing! i'm still not at your level, but you've really set up something special here
<2022-09-22T23:44:40.000Z> clobberpuss: i was actually wondering, on a more technical side of things, would it be possible to adjust soapbox on my end to include tags, which wouldn't HAVE to be visible on another node's end, but WOULD be visible on the server that was hosting it?
<2022-09-22T23:45:02.000Z> clobberpuss: or would that affect how posts communicate cross-network?
<2022-09-22T23:45:22.000Z> alex@gleasonator.com: What do you mean by tags?
<2022-09-22T23:46:01.000Z> clobberpuss: so think like tumblr, right. they have a little column at the bottom of a new post, which allows you to add tags, and then when you go to search, your search looks through those, as opposed to direct post contents.
<2022-09-22T23:46:29.000Z> alex@gleasonator.com: Ahh. Well we do have hashtags but it's part of the post content.
<2022-09-22T23:47:03.000Z> alex@gleasonator.com: What you want is possible, but nobody has coded it
<2022-09-22T23:47:46.000Z> clobberpuss: yeah, my question was, if *i* were to add it, would it affect how posts communicate across other nodes?
<2022-09-22T23:49:10.000Z> alex@gleasonator.com: You could attach it as metadata to the post then choose whether to federate it or not
<2022-09-22T23:49:24.000Z> alex@gleasonator.com: You can control what's in your own database vs what you send to other servers
<2022-09-22T23:49:43.000Z> clobberpuss: oh, wonderful. that uh
<2022-09-22T23:49:53.000Z> clobberpuss: wasn't something i could do very well with pleroma/mastodon, haha
<2022-11-12T01:23:09.000Z> clobberpuss: hey, i was trying to look at the soapbox install page, but right now it's redirecting to an IP address with "can't be reached" error.
<2022-11-12T01:23:14.000Z> clobberpuss: is it hosted elsewhere? sorry to bother.
<2022-11-12T01:44:34.000Z> alex@gleasonator.com: I see no problem with it, but you can try here instead: https://archive.ph/ZFoYT
<2022-11-12T14:15:50.000Z> clobberpuss: much appreciated, thanks
<2022-11-18T15:04:59.000Z> clobberpuss: Sorry to bother again, but does soapbox allow for actual account deletion? I ask because I know mastodon does not, and I wanted to know if that's a limitation with activitypub or mastodon specifically.
<2022-11-18T15:05:22.000Z> clobberpuss: Thanks in advance 
<2022-11-18T16:01:43.000Z> alex@gleasonator.com: Yes it does. So does Mastodon though.
<2022-11-18T16:29:12.000Z> clobberpuss: does it? previously, when i tried to delete something off a mastodon instance, i was told that the name itself couldn't be freed up after the fact.
<2022-11-18T17:44:12.000Z> alex@gleasonator.com: Ohh, yeah we don't let users take the name of a deleted account. That would result in impersonation.
<2022-11-18T17:44:43.000Z> clobberpuss: is that an activitypub decision, or a platform decision?
<2022-11-18T17:45:08.000Z> clobberpuss: i would assume platform.
<2022-11-18T17:46:10.000Z> clobberpuss: (people sometimes delete their accounts and want to come back later, so i would like to have the ability to scrub a name if a user choses to re-activate with their old username)
<2022-11-18T17:47:31.000Z> alex@gleasonator.com: ActivityPub is a general idea. Pretty much everything is a platform decision.
<2022-11-18T17:48:06.000Z> clobberpuss: okay, cool. i appreciate all the answers, thank you. sorry i keep bugging you, haha.
<2022-11-18T17:48:10.000Z> alex@gleasonator.com: But you have to address the problem of impersonation, especially when you can't guarantee servers will be in sync. Some servers might not even know the account was ever deleted.
<2022-11-18T17:48:43.000Z> clobberpuss: yeah that's something i've noticed with a lot of instances. there's not really a huge focus on C2S, moreso on S2S
<2022-11-18T17:49:02.000Z> clobberpuss: by which i mean, it feels as though the user experience and ease of use is an afterthought in a lot of cases