The media upload presented to you by slick nostr clients is out of band using services like void.cat or nostr.build. it's like xmpp http upload, just not standardized. They're also just downloading the link in the message and displaying it, afaik there is no 'attachment' metadata field
NIP-05 appears to have been doned
God forbid that in the literal worst case scenario you be *inconvenienced* a bit.
I was thankfully able to dismiss it from my feed, but yeah would have been entirely broken if not. Yee-haw
gossip. poor thing stutters if you try to scroll to the end
docker is, in that capacity, sort of like a standardized way to build a system image. Rather than write your own custom install script for anything, there's almost always a docker image produced by a docker script that sets it up for you, usually one click/command and go.
it bricks the view on gossip, you have to eject from the thread
or
I have a server
I want to run software a and software b but a and b use very incompatible versions of the same library.
Slap each in a container, put exactly what it needs in there, and no more.
Problem solved.
Technically there are non-container ways around this but some of them are hairy and containers are ez.
It's *mostly* a convenience thing until you start getting into things like spinning up and down containers automatically as use of a service goes up and down, in an effort not to over- or under-provision compute resources, but that's mostly a cloud at scale kinda thing
#[0] that thing you just posted broke my poor client. thank you.
/shrug
I don't need no fucking webshit.
I don't want to post images (mostly) and I don't care if something looks jank.
Sperg software for spergs to sperg on.
I haven't checked the docs or anything. But there isn't a setting to enable it that I could see, and there is not an option for anything other than following or inbox on the feed tab (unless you are drilled down into a thread or viewing someone's posts)
Honestly I don't mind it. I'm here to shit up threads people I have followed are in, not the threads of poor innocents who I have never seen
I'm using gossip. It's a comfy amount of jank.
tfw my client does not support examining the global feed (or if it does I haven't found it)
who be the last one? you?
"forced to be simple" is one jackass away from a javascript engine to enable dynamic content because the inventor clearly could have had no reason to keep it simple.
As for everyone being irony poisoned, yeah probably. Smaller communities (10-20 max) are where you might actually make friends. But big public things with easy, wide reach give you masses of the irony poisoned, and masses of influencer wannabes sending you good vibes (subtext: send me zaps or likes).
For all the nasty things one can find about forum culture, it probably only got cancerous when the forum got big enough. At that point there's power and influence at play. Corruption of moderation, minor-e-celebdom, fame and notoriety. Once scarce resources, these are like cocaine for the psyche. Once constrained as a drug only the kings and princes might indulge, in the hands of the masses these petty tyrants are unworthy of their throne and they will destroy themselves, mad with so little power.
Small gated communities of close(ish) "friends," more like colleagues are the best that people have to offer one another. Dispassionate passion for a subject, or interest, minimizing egos while still forming bonds is what I think people should strive for. It isn't glamorous by design. Posting to the void is a form of that: a forum of one. Free expression of thought, it serves chiefly to clarify and concrete your own, for your own enlightenment.
/rant
Anyway yes, web 1.0 style things on services like gemini is likely the way forward that isn't something that will just inevitably become facebook/twitter/instagram again.
The XMPP model of a "separate" http upload service integrated might not be the worst thing. Along the lines of relays, you could probably specify your preferred HTTP upload location, and have a NIP for standaradizing marking an http upload as an attachment, that a client can render or not in their preferred way. That way relay operators can opt-in or -out. Although http upload for xmpp has become not-really-optional so maybe it is just a ratchet approach rather than all at once
I really like this. Have you seen the ansi art fedi bot that runs on bozgor? it often has some really elaborate bbs screens/ansi art