Brecht Savelkoul

@jef @jwz Yep it has to be flexible if the goal is to support all conceivable kinds of social networking.

Mastodon started out as an OStatus server though. I don't know that spec, maybe it was more restrictive and that's why things like this aren't used (yet)?

@jwz The way to handle replies that you propose is included as an option in the ActivityPub spec: https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-replies, so the spec isn't what's holding back Mastodon to implement this.

@matias We're following the methodology of a Chinese school based in Stuttgart called Vikbas. I can't find to much about them on the web (I think they operate mostly on WeChat), but I did find the LinkedIn of the head of the school: https://de.linkedin.com/in/xuan-li-010b7558?challengeId=AQGEeKWYTc6E6AAAAYnHPfW7g0Wisz1MiPEJLGM-jMYe9vPrZR6y2cPhVY9EKbb9qE6WIX8hNYkT8uql-CUP0roXYKY3YLg5lg&submissionId=a621f918-7194-7817-1032-973164ca1803&challengeSource=AgHI7IoLKUVaVgAAAYnHPkXCxT_yxOtwHHrG8XLNAqZ_6v6OW-hdF5kLhG7qmHM&challegeType=AgGbjFU38o_D1gAAAYnHPkXGP0Ir9TCutmj_6CE0e20M7VpNerilbvs&memberId=AgGgVcHVMmVWXQAAAYnHPkXJ0P9lybhvU8QqEFE_So3doR4&recognizeDevice=AgED-lYrU4vhzgAAAYnHPkXNLEXnP5t9X0eHY5m8ZE79giDVldIG

They have a remote class once a week for kids who aren't based in Stuttgart itself, but the majority of learning has to happen throughout the week outside class, otherwise their approach won't work.

@matias My 6yo has been learning to read Chinese since she was about that age, and that's indeed too young to really get into the school textbooks yet.

That being said, you might still want to introduce those textbooks at some point before she starts primary school in Norway. Because without a head start, learning to read Chinese will be a slog compared to the speed of learning an alphabetic language, which would be very demoralizing.

@stavvers But then how to spend 30min sitting down to read on an uncomfortable toilet?

@stavvers of all the things that didn't happen etc etc

@jwz I have been on the receiving end of a T+2 followed by T+3 type scenario, and the behaviour was really weird. I kept getting new notifications from the T+2 post, but when I clicked the thread it wasn't there. Looked quite buggy to me. But this was back in the day on Mastodon 3.x still, so it might have been fixed by now.

(Just for context, the block came form a person who took some criticism of his favoured Linux distro *really* personal.)

@samy I came across one of these in Stuttgart Hbf this weekend as well. In my recollection that one did have a younger person on it. I could be wrong though, as I was mostly focused on catching my next train.

@doot@glitterkitten.co.uk On the internet, nobody knows you're a dove.

@bastianallgeier Often only the first three are so are actual search results and all the rest "you might also like" kind of stuff.

@Octale@nerdculture.de @BlackAzizAnansi And one year after Russia abolished serfdom.

@toddo Private equity?

@dajb Right, though on here there would be some cues I could trust to distinguish an official vote from a spontaneous opinion poll. For example it being posted or boosted by the official @SocialCoop account, or advertised using the Mastodon announcement feature. On Loomio though I have no clear way to tell the difference.

@dajb I'm not even sure to what extent anything that happens on Loomio can be considered legitimate, given that lots of members aren't registered over there, and less still are actively participating.

I'm wondering if maybe we should be using a fork that supports local-only posting, and then have the most essential discussions over here instead of on Loomio.

@dajb I could sort of see the point of the previous one, but this last one really feels irrelevant to the collective decision making process.

Shout out to all those people whose arrogance is misconstrued as shyness.

The fact that it makes zero sense as a practical business decision only makes it more relatable.

@doot@glitterkitten.co.uk Right of course.

That reminds I haven't seen any BSD/Social accounts around here in ages, wonder what happened there. Did they disappear when everyone else switched from OStatus to ActivityPub maybe?

@doot@glitterkitten.co.uk I vaguely remember him being on here in the early days. Not on Mastodon itself but on some other compatible application. Or am I imagining this?

@heydon This reminds me of an anecdote where some Tory politician (can't remember which one) in the early 1990s com was lecturing a football supporter's association that "football should keep its violence out of society".

Their reply: "We think society should keep its violence out of football."