JK Rowling, I curse you, from a distance. I will not personally harm you, because that's not the kind of person I am. But I wish you bad luck: that your bad karma eats at you, that your shows and books sell poorly, that your bad reputation catch up to you in the general public's eye.

Tolkien: listen, assholes, i got into fantasy for exactly 3 reasons:
Tolkien: sexy hobbit feet
Tolkien: feasts
Tolkien: and fuckin' tom bombadil!
Sanderson: tom bombadil?
Tolkien: he's only the most important thing in middle earth!
Tolkien: that capering buffoon of a wifeguy holds it all together!!

Ooofs. if it's /any/ small consolation, there's still people on the Fediverse (and even in the W3C spec community, like meee for example) that want to build bridges between communities & protocols instead. Which, I know, doesn't erase the vocal causes of drama.

Yeah, I'm super curious about what Bluesky's response will be!

But would it? :) would it really? <3

If you’re interested in private data (it’s also a problem we need to solve with protocols) check out Automerge automerge.github.io and follow @expede.wtf who is working on an auth layer.

BlueSky has defined a microblogging data type (called a Lexicon in #ATProtocol) to make a Twitter clone app.

@frontpage.fyi is experimenting with a Hacker News clone that has link posts and long comments.

@smokesignal.events handles events and RSVPs.

@whtwnd.com has defined long form blogs.

Relevant to my interests, pre-order'd! :) <3