When I used friendica, later running pleroma, and now running soapbox, all 3 give an option to export follows as a csv file. Does Mastodon not have that option?
Man, some of those last tweets haven't aged well and not in the way the establishment thinks.
I posted a video recently from historian channel whatifalthist that called Donald Trump the most boomer president ever. He's loud, boisterous, thinks everything has a simple soution, got tremendously wealthy not actually doing that much (in fact he got tremendously wealthy buying real estate!) and splits the world into good people and bad people. He doesn't follow any sort of conservative mores and while he doesn't drink he certainly engages in vices, particularly sexually. He's famous for it.
But in a lot of ways the reaction to him has been incredibly boomer too, especially by the millennials who hate him. He can't just be an arrogant oaf who doesn't know how the world works and is therefore just wrong, he has to be literally Hitler driving the world towards fascism because the worldview is pure good vs. pure evil.
I guess it drives people to ballot boxes, but the boomer age of beneficial economic supercycles is over, probably for a few generations. We don't have the luxury of simplistic thinking. We need to build realistic mental models of what's going on in the world, or we won't be able to make good decisions within it. That refers to the boomers themselves, but it also refers to us, their children, and our children. All of us need to use those fantastically powerful abstract minds of ours to imagine what the future probably brings and start figuring out how to deal with it.
I posted a video recently from historian channel whatifalthist that called Donald Trump the most boomer president ever. He's loud, boisterous, thinks everything has a simple soution, got tremendously wealthy not actually doing that much (in fact he got tremendously wealthy buying real estate!) and splits the world into good people and bad people. He doesn't follow any sort of conservative mores and while he doesn't drink he certainly engages in vices, particularly sexually. He's famous for it.
But in a lot of ways the reaction to him has been incredibly boomer too, especially by the millennials who hate him. He can't just be an arrogant oaf who doesn't know how the world works and is therefore just wrong, he has to be literally Hitler driving the world towards fascism because the worldview is pure good vs. pure evil.
I guess it drives people to ballot boxes, but the boomer age of beneficial economic supercycles is over, probably for a few generations. We don't have the luxury of simplistic thinking. We need to build realistic mental models of what's going on in the world, or we won't be able to make good decisions within it. That refers to the boomers themselves, but it also refers to us, their children, and our children. All of us need to use those fantastically powerful abstract minds of ours to imagine what the future probably brings and start figuring out how to deal with it.
No, but if I were running twitter and was one of the world's richest people, that's a box of TNT that's on fire. You don't stick around to toast marshmallows, you run like hell.
as far as I can tell blender is still hot garbage, so yeah it's funny because it used to be even worse.
But ffs even running an instance isn't that hard.
But ffs even running an instance isn't that hard.
If you want a big tech daddy knows best censored experience, stay on big tech. Jesus why would you ever go to a distributed free and open source platform expecting everyone to be walking on eggshells as if they were going to get banned at any second for wrongthink? #feditips
I know what you're saying, but it seems to me that by creating structures that allow things to grow to be so extraordinarily large and to let individual people become so extraordinarily powerful you end up with a sort of reality warping where the working man's wages are garnished and those tax dollars are often placed directly into the pockets of some megacorp with unlimited donor bucks.
The real world creates limits to things. Nations can only become so big. Cities can only become so big. Creatures can only become so big. After a point, the pressures against growing start to outweigh the pressure to grow and there's an equilibrium.
Creating an immortal and faceless corporation that makes the creator of that corporation largely blameless for anything that happens in it to a certain point bypasses many of the limitations nature puts on things. Eventually rich people die and they split their fortune among their descendants for example. If individuals are held to account for the consequences of their machinations then that seems like a reasonable limiter.
And if we realize that we can't get anything done because there's too many forms of liability out there, maybe then the incentive will be to chill out a bit. Why should the owner of a megacorp get more protection from such things than a regular person? Just make everyone more free instead of having a loophole to deal with the crippling regulation.
The real world creates limits to things. Nations can only become so big. Cities can only become so big. Creatures can only become so big. After a point, the pressures against growing start to outweigh the pressure to grow and there's an equilibrium.
Creating an immortal and faceless corporation that makes the creator of that corporation largely blameless for anything that happens in it to a certain point bypasses many of the limitations nature puts on things. Eventually rich people die and they split their fortune among their descendants for example. If individuals are held to account for the consequences of their machinations then that seems like a reasonable limiter.
And if we realize that we can't get anything done because there's too many forms of liability out there, maybe then the incentive will be to chill out a bit. Why should the owner of a megacorp get more protection from such things than a regular person? Just make everyone more free instead of having a loophole to deal with the crippling regulation.
The problem with limiting liability is that it means you can get overwhelmingly massive and there's no personal risk to you. If a person has to worry about whether someone is doing something in their name then they've got a good reason to be more careful and limit their growth to what they can personally control since they could lose everything.
I think that the litigiousness is a direct consequence of this: The culture is these megacorporations that can't drain shareholders of anything but the money they've invested, and they don't manage risk because of that, so the lawsuits fly easily and often because the companies are huge enough to have tons of money to pay out and reckless enough that they're making stupid enough mistakes to have to pay out!
Then like bad parts of other cultures, it bleeds into everyday life, and suddenly you've got million dollar lawsuits for nothing between individual people, and then people need millions of dollars of liability insurance just in case, which drives more money and power into the hands of megacorporations.
I think that the litigiousness is a direct consequence of this: The culture is these megacorporations that can't drain shareholders of anything but the money they've invested, and they don't manage risk because of that, so the lawsuits fly easily and often because the companies are huge enough to have tons of money to pay out and reckless enough that they're making stupid enough mistakes to have to pay out!
Then like bad parts of other cultures, it bleeds into everyday life, and suddenly you've got million dollar lawsuits for nothing between individual people, and then people need millions of dollars of liability insurance just in case, which drives more money and power into the hands of megacorporations.
You think you do, but wait until you've got a small kingdom's worth of dry dog food. "It was on sale!" we don't even have a dog wtf lady...
You're right, I thought the history of such things previously seemed to start much later around the 1600s, but the romans recognised it in the 6th century BC. Maybe it looked that way to me because that's when they started to be publicly traded on exchanges?
I sort of hope you're right, tbh. I don't want or need the fediverse to become yet another oversaturated thing that everyone is using and suddenly everyone needs to control for our own protection.