
I was hanging out with some people this weekend, and we somehow got on the subject of fiber consumption, and how americans eat far too little fiber. Over the course of the day, we continued to joke about fiber, and built a made-up authoritarian town government based around maintaining healthy fiber intake for its citizens. Increased septic pipe diameters, Navy Bean distribution infrastructure, mandatory weekly stool scans, “fiber re-education” camps for failing a scan. When people die, their fiber will be reprocessed and returned to the citizens (like the sacred water in Dune)…
When we all parted ways, later in the evening, one of them sent a link to the group chat they had been talking about earlier in the day. IMMEDIATELY someone responded “This isn’t fiber related :(”
It’s been a long time since I’ve witnessed the birth of a stupid inside joke, it was providing smiles all day. “Hey Alex, I bet that tree bark has a TON of fiber…”
I’ll also comment to say that the “cancel” part of this is stupid and should be reconsidered. (There seems to be a pretty thorough consensus on that). Isn’t the whole point of this to have options, to spread the resources out to as many points as possible to prevent a single point of failure, corruption, or censorship?
I ended up at Piefed, because I’m interested in self-hosting, and I understand Python more than any of the other languages represented. That’s really the full depth of my choice, and I’m not sure there should be much more thought behind it other than “How does this particular software package perform and meet my needs?”