Technoguyfication

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

To be brutally honest, mastodon isn’t appealing to average people. Picking a server and client is too complicated, it’s mostly full of FOSS and Linux nerds, and the lack of a good discovery algorithm prevents them from finding content they are interested in.

Unfortunately, average people don’t care about federation. They get confused when they click a link from a different mastodon instance and it’s not the same website. Why aren’t they logged in anymore? They don’t know. Website must be broken. They don’t know or care about the differences between instances and clients and protocols. It’s just an app that they download and don’t see any of their friends or content they care about, so they stop using it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Is Bluesky prone to enshittification? I don’t know much about the AT protocol, but it seems like it works relatively similar to ActivityPub. Is it open source?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The rear door release is not meant to be used in an emergency, it would be impossible to child lock the door. The front doors have very prominent handles and the rear passengers can climb over.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Why do people assume the tech companies are going to be running the plants? They are just paying a utility provider to run the plants and sell the energy to them at wholesale prices. They’re not handing out dosimetry to CS graduates and telling them to go wrench on the reactor like it’s a new social media app.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not to mention it’s an entirely aluminum frame that has been shown to shatter instead of bend when overstressed, which is the opposite of what you want when you’re towing a trailer down the road at 65mph

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

My state doesn’t do daylight savings, so I get to avoid these useless shenanigans twice a year

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago

It can be used as a verb too, it just means to flirt with someone.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

I really hope he has a good plan to pass the reigns to someone with the same integrity and philosophy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 weeks ago

Planet of the rising temperatures more like

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

I’m going to go drop off my ballot and sit back and wait for the results. There is nothing more I can do so there’s no sense in worrying about it. Focus on things you can actually change.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

When you get home from work, sometimes it’s nice to decompress for a few minutes before going in to start on chores/dinner/whatever. Especially if you have roommates or children that will immediately require your attention when you go inside.

 

Note: I am not affiliated with this project in any way. I think it’s a very promising alternative to things like MinIO and deserves more attention.

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