Ahahaha that’s pretty good. Thanks for sharing. I hope they sorted things out

Yo, that’s super cool. +1 on the who was on the phone?

Thank you! I was really tempted to try to put moves on her, but I was in a relationship at the time. When I got home and told the story, my girlfriend at the time said she totally would have given me a pass. I have regrets. Of course, I probably would have failed anyway, but it’s fun to think about.

I was invited to Valve’s Game Developers Conference after party. I met Felicia Day and swing danced with her. She’s super fucking cool. During that same GDC, I started interviewing at Riot Games and ended up getting hired by them.

There’s other fun stuff I’ve proactively done, but I think that’s the big one that happened to me

My understanding isn’t perfect, but I’ll share what i understand so far.

An instance starts federation with another instance when a user requests content from the other instance. This starts the sync.

An instance’s admins can block federation/content sharing with another instance explicitly.

I’m not sure of a way to see a kind of map of federation, but it would be cool

If your instance, A, blocks instance B, I’m not sure if you can see instance B’s users’ posts on instance C. That’s beyond my knowledge

I hope this helps?

I’m not 100% sure this is correct because I haven’t looked at the protocol or implementations in detail yet, but I can offer some educated guesses.

“Pending” implies that you’re waiting for some remote service, likely the other instance, to confirm that the subscription went through.

I can think of a few reasons why an instance may never send confirmation or why the message may not update:

• that instance defederated your instance, meaning you can see them, but they refuse to see you. This makes sense for beehaw, given that they’ve defederated several instances, including lemmy.world
• that instance hit an error
• the request or response was lost somewhere along the network
• your client, that is, the website or mobile app you’re using, has a cached state of pending and never updated it even though it received confirmation

Maybe I’ll dive into things tonight and get more info. Or i might forget. We’ll see 😅

Ohh, that’s a good idea. Maybe I’ll give that a go. Thanks!

I like this one. I don’t go quite as far as 80/20 or 90/10, but I try to progress. Like I generally avoid beef, now. Recently stopped eating squid and octopus (it’s popular where I live). Next step will be pork, then chicken, though chicken’s gonna be really tough. But yeah, still a good strategy

Confidence and/or giving no fucks goes a long way. Combine that with unabashed honesty, and you’re good. Just gotta make sure not to be a dick about things.

This ends up rubbing assholes the wrong way, but good people will be drawn to you. If you’re in a toxic environment, you’ll end up kind of ejecting yourself, but you can build a good environs around yourself