Activitypub Memes

When the federation goes down and suddenly you're not blocked by API rate limits or deployment pipelines anymore. Two developers immediately resort to office chair sword fighting while their manager desperately tries to restore order. The "OH. CARRY ON." is peak management energy - they saw the outage notification and decided this is actually a reasonable use of company time. Lemmy uses ActivityPub federation, so when it breaks, you're basically cut off from the entire network. But instead of panic or troubleshooting, the natural developer instinct kicks in: find the nearest cylindrical object and duel. Productivity was never really on the table anyway.