Wdym I can find all manner of dangerous shit by googling for five minutes

I like the kind of revival of nice TUIs that is going on right now. I just wish it continues !

I’m a theoretical physicist and I can predict most dropped objects will fall to the floor

“here’s how to tell which one” so this guy has solved VC investment. Got it.

You know the company and the users are completely divorced when you read something like that. Redditors have spent years telling each other that awards are useless and a waste of money - then the admins touch it and everybody flips their lid. I for one am glad I’m no longer part of that toxic relationship.

“Damn, I thought mental illness was in the knees”

Yes! This guy shines in uncertain times, that’s kind of his brand.

I love that because it’s such a cautionary tale about bad leadership. He was toxic towards Twitter for years then bought them and doubled down on shitting on them and calling them incompetent… Of course they hate his guts and maliciously comply now.

It’s the time between masters that is interesting and unpredictable and just fun

I think it might be the opposite. If extreme content is kind of “default” when the algorithm doesn’t know what to give you, them starving it off history might push it into that default more often. I have a very used YouTube account with a metric ton of history and honestly I very rarely see that kind of content. (From Europe though so it might be different)

Based and you-can’t-propagandize-with-a-mouthful-of -broken-teeth pilled

Idk it’s pretty common. Where i live, most people above 35 have gotten at least once in a fight with skinheads, and some did it every weekend for the giggles.

Exactly. I paid 15 bucks 12 years ago and got god knows how many thousands of hours out of it

It’s kind of generic though isn’t it? I liked wefwef it was pretty fun

I’m right there with you. I can already foresee that their apps will be prioritizing monetized users like content creators and everything in there will be a transaction of some sort. Who cares, you just have to block their instances and go about your merry way.

I think the immune system is federation itself. Everything is in the open, users have the control, how do you develop a competitive advantage in that context? I think it’s the end of “winner takes all”.

The whole point of open protocols is that anyone can use it. Just block any instance you don’t like and you’re good!

Oh man happy to help! And good luck on your game project, drop us a link sometime!

Hey man don’t overthink it. You need a meta product for work or for a project, just use it professionally. You need to think about your own success and go where your audience is.

Now on your personal time if you don’t want the toxicity of those places come to the fediverse and let’s have a nice chat.

I think the goal of the fediverse is not to eat the world but on the contrary to give us alternatives so we can compartmentalize our internet life.

I don’t understand. Of course your normie family hasn’t heard of the big social app of 30 years ago, how is that even relevant ?

The scale of Usenet popularity was enormous for the time, roughly 15% of internet users were on usenet. In terms of today’s internet population that would be around 800M. That’s not niche, and that’s definitely in the ballpark of modern social media (double the size of reddit). There were a million different groups on a million different subjects, it was not for techies only you had active groups about gardening, ancient greek philosophy, writing, etc…

But most of all it was not clunky or difficult to use. The reason AOL “won” is because they shipped a quadrillion of those CD-Roms with free internet hours around the world, prompting people to try the internet out and those new users could discover chatrooms in one click. I’ll agree with you that the fediverse in its current state is clunky but usenet back in the day was far from it. It had fewer functionalities but was very straightforward to use.