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This is a commonly held belief and one that I had for most of my life. I don’t know what finally did it for me, but the book Trekonomics definitely gave me a push.

Great I really wanted that.

I wonder how this will affect the right to be forgotten. It’s not like theyre going to un-train any models or remove any derivative content

I know a few nurses in the neighbourhood and this is basically their survival strategy.

Fedi seems to be really great for accessibility from what I’ve seen. At least I’ve never never interacted with so many visually impaired people before joining mastodon. So I’d say that culture is working.

I believe there’s a nice way to go about (honey v vinegar, etc), but generally yeah, it feels really good to be in a virtual space that is so welcoming.

I can’t really think of a case where a post’s image isn’t relevant to the associated discussion. Even if it’s just a nonsense post with an unrelated image, knowing what the irrelevant image is about would help make sense of the discussion.

Not enough info is better than nothing. Because if it’s nothing, you can’t tell if the person who shared the image is lazy or decided the alt text wasn’t necessary for this particular picture

I think this and the stuff happening at Twitter are a nice kickstart to get lemmy and other ferdiverse stuff going.

Long live the ferdervers!

But seriously, I’m with you in sentiment. I’m never going back to the centralised/for-profit soc med services.

All their value comes from the free interactions between people chatting, and they think they deserve to get rich for renting the hall. Fuck that, we can just rent the infrastructure ourselves if that’s what it takes to talk in peace.

Welcome!

Thanks, added it to my to-be-read list. My preference is fiction these days, but I’m not above mixing in an academic book every now and then

I relayed 1 and 2 maybe a decade ago now, and I remember there were some fan patches that made them much more user friendly. Higher resolutions and mouse scrolling in inventory being the enhancements I remember most.

I do have some nostalgia for to these games, so my tolerance for old school inconvenience is likely higher.

That sounds nice. Similarly I’ve been in a book club for about two years now that was started on Reddit.

Although we haven’t read a book in months, we still meet virtually every week, so I guess we’re just friends now.

The ultimate test of these kinds of groups seems to be whether they can survive transplantation from one social medium to another. I wonder how my little book club would fare if there was a schism over using discord…

Maybe there is a board here that would help you set up something like that? It can’t hurt to look around and put out some feelers.

Third Culture Kid

Wow just knowing that it’s so common an experience that there’s a name for it is comforting.

Thank you so much for sharing that.

That’s nice. I’m glad to hear it