Forget about the fediverse. If my entire company relies on individuals continously doing manual actions to not lose it's one an only product the course of a month, and we're a software company, then what were all those people doing with their lives?
Presumably that means that at any moment in time if a bus was filled with twitter engineers and it ran over a cliff then there'd be a non-zero chance that the same thing would happen because perhaps the few dozen people who needed to manually stoke the twitter furnace with coal could be on there.
Presumably that means that at any moment in time if a bus was filled with twitter engineers and it ran over a cliff then there'd be a non-zero chance that the same thing would happen because perhaps the few dozen people who needed to manually stoke the twitter furnace with coal could be on there.
I think if it goes down for any extended period of time in the next month and a bit then Elon was fully justified in firing all those people.
I don't see it happening.
I don't see it happening.
You tell me that every single human being that got access to Dr. Sbaitso or similar talking chat bots on the commodore 64 didn't try to fuck with that creepy sounding fucker.
How else are you supposed to keep butter permanently in your bunker/sex dungeon for repopulating the earth after Biden mumbles "fire ze missiles" during his after lunch nap?
>tfw I see "(1/34)" or similar on fediverse and remember some people keep their post limit at 500 characters for some reason
60,000 characters, baby. Why would you do anything else?
60,000 characters, baby. Why would you do anything else?
Give a heroin addict a hit of heroin, and 97% of heroin addicts will thank you and come to you more often, and 3% will be very vocal about the fact that you're not doing something positive. That doesn't mean you've done a good thing.
I remember going for a deal like that and they got all pissy when I used my host to do something fun. I get why they'd be mad but it soured me on hosting like that.
Creates own society and thrives with freedom and joyous humor
"Let us in! Elon musk bought Twitter!"
"Let us in! Elon musk bought Twitter!"
I bought a rift and had a pretty top tier computer to drive it.
It is really cool sometimes, and but it was immediately apparent to me that it's not the next big thing for a variety of reasons.
Social medias meteoric rise really coincided with the Advent of smartphones. It was decent before that, but I drop in the bucket compared to afterwards. It got people away from the computer, they could just get a little hit of social network when they were out clubbing, or in the can, or hanging out with the kids, or at dinner. The key is that it feels like you are just dipping away for a quick second from whatever else is going on in your life, taking a look at some stuff that's intensely interesting, and then going back to whatever you were doing.
This contrasts sharply with virtual reality. You need a virtual reality session. You need to block out every single thing in the world other than virtual reality. You can't reasonably have a conversation with somebody else, you can't reasonably be having a meal, in reality it's pretty dangerous just having someone else in the room.
A lot of the time, I would finish my VR session and I would be pale as a sheet, sweating, and sick to my stomach. I recognize that this doesn't happen to everyone everyone, and there are definitely experiences that are better than others, but unless the experience isn't literally heroin, people aren't going to tolerate feeling like that.
I don't think that you can resolve some of these issues. However interesting it is, it is a fundamentally unaddictive technology except for a certain very narrow slice of society.
It is really cool sometimes, and but it was immediately apparent to me that it's not the next big thing for a variety of reasons.
Social medias meteoric rise really coincided with the Advent of smartphones. It was decent before that, but I drop in the bucket compared to afterwards. It got people away from the computer, they could just get a little hit of social network when they were out clubbing, or in the can, or hanging out with the kids, or at dinner. The key is that it feels like you are just dipping away for a quick second from whatever else is going on in your life, taking a look at some stuff that's intensely interesting, and then going back to whatever you were doing.
This contrasts sharply with virtual reality. You need a virtual reality session. You need to block out every single thing in the world other than virtual reality. You can't reasonably have a conversation with somebody else, you can't reasonably be having a meal, in reality it's pretty dangerous just having someone else in the room.
A lot of the time, I would finish my VR session and I would be pale as a sheet, sweating, and sick to my stomach. I recognize that this doesn't happen to everyone everyone, and there are definitely experiences that are better than others, but unless the experience isn't literally heroin, people aren't going to tolerate feeling like that.
I don't think that you can resolve some of these issues. However interesting it is, it is a fundamentally unaddictive technology except for a certain very narrow slice of society.
"I can't believe you don't respect us! We work for Der Strumer! We fight for the truth! I know! This must be an elaborate trick!"
Some of the main lemmy instances are pretty locked down and authoritarian, but there's plenty that are decent and tolerant. I'll always shout out my friends at wolfballs.com because they're fun folks, but they aren't the only good place on that side of the fediverse.
As a lotide enjoyer I also have to mention lotide since it's insanely light and slim, but probably too light and slim for most people. Both lemmy and lotide federate together so you can join other boards from your instance regardless of the software you run. Narwhal.city has some communities modded by @realcaseyrollins and he's been doing a great job of getting together stories that aren't really part of the usual flashpoint culture war stuff.
As a lotide enjoyer I also have to mention lotide since it's insanely light and slim, but probably too light and slim for most people. Both lemmy and lotide federate together so you can join other boards from your instance regardless of the software you run. Narwhal.city has some communities modded by @realcaseyrollins and he's been doing a great job of getting together stories that aren't really part of the usual flashpoint culture war stuff.
Off-hand, can you even get a 5% car loan right now? We're on the borderline of not being able to get a mortgage that low...
Seems to me the fediverse is already big enough that I don't care if it gets bigger. I see lots of people having lots of interesting discussions.
If it gets too big, that's almost concerning. Will people still be able to host their own instances? Will bad actors such as spammers become more prevalent? Will politicians start to stick their fingers where they don't belong? Will state actors start to try to mess with it to get their propaganda out there?
We're in a mini golden age here, but we've seen many eras collapse under the weight of popularity.
If it gets too big, that's almost concerning. Will people still be able to host their own instances? Will bad actors such as spammers become more prevalent? Will politicians start to stick their fingers where they don't belong? Will state actors start to try to mess with it to get their propaganda out there?
We're in a mini golden age here, but we've seen many eras collapse under the weight of popularity.