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@matrix
I don't know... I'm somewhat happy that they're not really hiding anymore that they're completely ignoring facts, logic, reason, science and so on. The faster and deeper they go down this rabbit hole, the faster normies will turn against them, and acknowledge they're the conspiracy theory nutcases.

Happy New Year!

This is a short taste of what I'm officially naming "fireworks democracy". What you're seeing is a city wide show made by the people for the people. Unlike other years, the local government didn't organize anything this time around. And restaurants had their hands tied, so I highly doubt they invested money in a show when they had no clientele.

This started up about 10 minutes before midnight, and lasted for another 10 after.

As cat don't want to be separated from me more than 7 seconds (she's on my belly rn), lemme wish you a happy new year

@halston
For me personally, not really. And even in communist days there wasn't an official curfew as far as I know. But they did cut off electricity at night.

New year's speech 

This February, a big portion of the Pleroma team met in Brussels for FOSDEM. Blissfully unaware of the horrible fate that would befall us all, we just poisoned ourselves with North Korean ginseng soju and bad fish.

Soon after, we started our tradition of missing release dates with our FOSDEM release in March, Pleroma 2.0. That's when we added Emoji reactions! Can you believe it? Seems like ages ago. AdminFE also made its entry in that one, still in a somewhat rough shape, but getting better with each release.

The next big thing came out in August. Chats! I hope you're all using them a lot! One step further in the direction of replacing all known software (email client will follow).

Our latest big release in November brought us the media preview proxy so that you can use Pleroma on cell phones without going crazy.

All the frontend changes we had in PleromaFE are too many to count. We also got a great new frontend in SoapboxFE and made it easier to install new frontends for admins.

So what am I looking forward to in the next year?

We'll make it much easier to install Pleroma, to host Pleroma, and to switch frontends around, both as an admin and as a user. Seeing how the existing big players will ban people left and right, an alternative is sorely needed, and we can provide it. Can Pleroma be 'social networking for the rest of us'? Let's do our best and find out!

We'll try to figure out how to make connecting to other people easier. We'll have to figure this one out together! There won't be an algorithmic timeline in Pleroma by default, but the firehose we currently have is also not very approachable for new users. Maybe a 'friendly instances' timeline? Better 'users to follow' suggestions? More outreach to explain how everything works? We'll see. Pleroma's what you make it.

And of course, the big one will come, hopefully sooner than later. Groups. Including group chat. I want it, you want it, everybody wants it. We'll get it. I've put literally years of thought into this one. Please be a little more patient, and then drop discord and facebook right away once it's released :p

I want to thank everyone who worked on Pleroma this year, who used it, who had fun on it, who was angry about it, who found new love on it and who keeps loving me. Every time I think about how far we've come in this backwater social network for outsiders and free software freaks, I find it hard to believe. We all make it happen together.

Was 2020 the Year of Pleroma? Not quite yet. But we made good progress. Next year will count. Can't wait to see you all again!

Happy New Year Igel, wherever you are... may you finally get that girlfriend you were so desperate for.

So how shitty is New Years gonna be in your country? In Romania we're basically not allowed to leave the house after 11PM.

@VD15
Ideally yes, you should have offered. If their hate for popcorn chicken had been a years long thing, then his reaction is definitely out of order, and you don't need to make the offer. But seeing how you described it as a somewhat recent thing, I think you should still give the courtesy offer for a couple more times.

But in the end, are you an asshole? No. Maybe you made an assumption you shouldn't have, but at worst you were impolite.

@matrix
This guy? youtube.com/c/ApolloLegend/vid

Never heard of him... but I see he's into speedrunning. Did he try to speedrun his life too?

@cowanon @matrix
I mean... that's obvious... he was a youtuber after all. But the question remains, who is it that killed himself?

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