You only think it's soft because nothing in your life relies on it. For the companies who were hosted there it was a pretty big deal.
Imagine the chaos that a strike on us-east-1 would cause. Failover management for all of AWS is centrally located in Virginia, redundancies would not activate.
A lot of commerce would come to a grinding halt. Many banks and credit exchanges would just stop working for weeks, to say nothing for the plethora of businesses who do not have redundant systems.
It all makes a lot more sense when you find out they want to declare anything lgbtq related as pornographic.
The right has figured out that they can keep queer kids (especially trans kids) in the closet if they don't let them learn what their "difference" actually is. It's "don't say gay" applied to the internet.
I would love to see a new take on backbone in the modern web without any jQuery integration. I genuinely miss how easy and powerful backbone views are.
It probably isn’t burnout, but if you keep pushing against it then you will burnout.
I felt the exact same way in pretty much the same timeline, and then burned out hard last year from trying to force myself to work when all the joy had already fled.
Personally, I think it’s a systemic problem with the industry as a whole, which has been made even worse by the rapid pivot towards LLMs. Somewhere around 2018 I realized that I don’t actually like writing software for other people any more. The projects no longer excite or challenge me, it’s just more of the same.
This was me. I’ve been on them for four years and actually gained fifty pounds
The drug keeps me from binge eating, which is huge, but if I take enough to actually lose weight then I have weekly bouts of food poisoning because the sugars in my gut start to ferment. An entire day sitting on the toilet while holding a bucket because it’s coming out both ends.
Meanwhile I’ve been on ozempic since 2021 and have lost significant muscle mass despite gaining 50 pounds (the drug helps with my diabetes but does nothing to my appetite).
I’ve been conceptualizing one for a few years, but just don’t have the free dopamine to build it alongside my day job.
ActivityPub even has the mechanics to facilitate it through publishing Person records. There is MASSIVE space for innovation, especially if you prioritize on non-monogamy, non-heterosexual, non-gender-conforming needs.
Dating apps are a REALLY hard space to get into, however. You need a cumulative mass of users in a given area before they’re useful, and monetizing it inevitably means making the app less useful. There’s a reason okcupid went to shit after it stopped being a non-profit.
Now you've piqued my interest, especially if it could be done in a safe but distributed way, without a focus on profits.
How you'd envision it to work, considering the open nature of ActivityPub but the need/want from the users to remain private when using dating applications/protocols?
Profile data can be restricted based on authorized fetch, just like mastodon.
For messaging, I hadn’t put a much thought into it, but one could establish end to end encryption based on mutual validation signatures. Theoretically. Encryption isn’t my strong suit, but as long as the encoded body is unicode, it’s just as easy to transmit as any other text.
But, like, I also don’t know of any dating site that professes to be encrypting message contents.
Imagine the chaos that a strike on us-east-1 would cause. Failover management for all of AWS is centrally located in Virginia, redundancies would not activate.
A lot of commerce would come to a grinding halt. Many banks and credit exchanges would just stop working for weeks, to say nothing for the plethora of businesses who do not have redundant systems.
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