"holly why do you run your own instance instead of using someone else's"
💬 "well, it's a great learning experience, i think it's important to the ideals of federation that there be a wide selection of instances to choose from rather than everyone piling into a few big ones, and it's as good a hobby as anything else"
💭 "modifying the code for shitposts"
thank u
@petra i'm not actually good at it but i posted an eight-option poll, and some one-option polls
also random posts appear in comic sans in the web view here
@petra nah the poll stuff is literally like, changing a hardcoded constant from 4 to 20, and another from 1 to 0
the comic sans thing was harder but i just had to expose the post id in a different place than usual so i could target it with css
@petra come on i'm sure you could do it if you knew where to look
and i'm sure you could figure out where to look by doing one recursive grep
just according to keikaku 
@monorail this is so much purer than my reason, which was "if I make my own instance then I get to be IN CHARGE and make MY OWN RULES"
@monorail pets u