tbf though, when the promises you make are so huge, any one W would be enough for most people to build an entire career off of.
But you have to take Elon for what he is: It's a complicated mess of things, good and bad and all over the place. He's a capitalist, but he's only the world's richest man because he's a crony capitalist. He was a darling of the left for creating the useless EV industry, but he's a darling of the right for taking over Twitter and making some boomer tier tweets. He helped Trump get elected, but he's still a neoliberal who wants to import unlimited cheap labor. He lies a lot about his projects, but some of his projects have been knock it out of the park successes.
And you can just go "Oh, well those projects weren't from him", but I've seen how you can have a lot of technologies that never get off the ground despite being ready to go for decades, and it seems like a surprising number of techs do actually get to market under Elon, so while he might not be what people treat him like, he's obviously got the right stuff in his head to get things done when they're actually possible.
So friend or foe? He's more like an unpredictable 800 pound gorilla.
But you have to take Elon for what he is: It's a complicated mess of things, good and bad and all over the place. He's a capitalist, but he's only the world's richest man because he's a crony capitalist. He was a darling of the left for creating the useless EV industry, but he's a darling of the right for taking over Twitter and making some boomer tier tweets. He helped Trump get elected, but he's still a neoliberal who wants to import unlimited cheap labor. He lies a lot about his projects, but some of his projects have been knock it out of the park successes.
And you can just go "Oh, well those projects weren't from him", but I've seen how you can have a lot of technologies that never get off the ground despite being ready to go for decades, and it seems like a surprising number of techs do actually get to market under Elon, so while he might not be what people treat him like, he's obviously got the right stuff in his head to get things done when they're actually possible.
So friend or foe? He's more like an unpredictable 800 pound gorilla.
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French automaker Nissan, who brings shame to the entire nation for pretending to be Japanese
Deciding when reddit fully died is tough. I went there after digg after I stopped going to slashdot, and it was decent for a long while. I know it was already becoming insufferable before Trump was elected, I was already looking for an alternative back in 2015, but after Trump was elected it basically turned into the TDS show.
One thing that's pretty funny is if you tune into lemmy, the same sort of people are there and so 90% of the lemmy instances are equally insufferable (which is a shame, the medium of threaded discussion in groups isn't inherently bad)
One thing that's pretty funny is if you tune into lemmy, the same sort of people are there and so 90% of the lemmy instances are equally insufferable (which is a shame, the medium of threaded discussion in groups isn't inherently bad)
If someone I like wants on the fediverse I'd be like "look for fediblock and pick an instance from there. That's where fun is allowed."
People dumb enough to mindlessly follow a list they found online that they don't even know where it came from or who contributed to it should probably be avoided anyway.
When people block my instance for being on fediblock, for example, it's because I told them to. I'm too dangerous to listen to, but not too dangerous to follow orders from.
When people block my instance for being on fediblock, for example, it's because I told them to. I'm too dangerous to listen to, but not too dangerous to follow orders from.
Sometimes I see what my users post and it's like "Guys, take your valium and mellow out" but my TOS is that I'm not their dad and I don't have the bandwidth in my life to be their dad even if I wanted to.
That's the other side of "I'm not your dad". I'm not your dad, I'm not going to carry water for you if you post stuff that's going to get me in trouble.
I don't talk about it much, but as an example I strip media from several woodchipper themed instances (though I don't fully block anything)
I don't talk about it much, but as an example I strip media from several woodchipper themed instances (though I don't fully block anything)
The admin of that instance, ActionRetro, has a fantastic youtube channel where he plays with old tech.
There's one thing that's not really right in your analysis: bluesky is difficult to host because of its size because everything is everywhere making it mostly centralized even when you host another instance. Fedi is easier to host because it's a la carte, instances pull what they need from who they need them from, making it highly decentralized when you host another instance.
If you had to host every fedi post everywhere from everyone then it'd be difficult to host because of its size too, and that's how it can scale, by only having each instance pull what it needs. Bluesky added 10 million accounts during its twitter exodus, but so did the fediverse. It is a big thing if you were to try to have everyone have everything. In fact, it'd probably be way bigger, because the fediverse has been around longer, and has been posting for many additional years across many platforms.
Most of the problems of fedi are baked into decentralization -- you're fragmented because instances are islands that connect to each other to send or receive data as required. Moderation and federation issues? Baked into decentralization because everyone gets to make whatever platform they want. Data portability? baked into decentralization because not everyone knows about your account or all your posts, and nobody but your home instance can verify it's you.
For some people, that decentralization is a feature not a bug, but for a lot of people they want a centralized platform with decentralized elements and they're not wrong to want that. One downside of decentralization is your reach is what you find for yourself. In some ways it leads to more centralization because you'll find lots of people who ought to be running their own instance instead just hopping onto mastodon.social and sharing the one server with a million other people instead of building a network from one server that won't see the rest of the fediverse without tracking down other users.
Nostr is a different beast, but it's got a lot of issues with putting the tech too front and center -- npubs and nsecs, this isn't how normal people use computers, even techies. If Alex succeeds with ditto, he might be able to use the technology as a backend to at least be usable on a day to day basis by normal people.
If you had to host every fedi post everywhere from everyone then it'd be difficult to host because of its size too, and that's how it can scale, by only having each instance pull what it needs. Bluesky added 10 million accounts during its twitter exodus, but so did the fediverse. It is a big thing if you were to try to have everyone have everything. In fact, it'd probably be way bigger, because the fediverse has been around longer, and has been posting for many additional years across many platforms.
Most of the problems of fedi are baked into decentralization -- you're fragmented because instances are islands that connect to each other to send or receive data as required. Moderation and federation issues? Baked into decentralization because everyone gets to make whatever platform they want. Data portability? baked into decentralization because not everyone knows about your account or all your posts, and nobody but your home instance can verify it's you.
For some people, that decentralization is a feature not a bug, but for a lot of people they want a centralized platform with decentralized elements and they're not wrong to want that. One downside of decentralization is your reach is what you find for yourself. In some ways it leads to more centralization because you'll find lots of people who ought to be running their own instance instead just hopping onto mastodon.social and sharing the one server with a million other people instead of building a network from one server that won't see the rest of the fediverse without tracking down other users.
Nostr is a different beast, but it's got a lot of issues with putting the tech too front and center -- npubs and nsecs, this isn't how normal people use computers, even techies. If Alex succeeds with ditto, he might be able to use the technology as a backend to at least be usable on a day to day basis by normal people.