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- Comment on Every Country That Has Their Own Lemmy Instance 3 days ago:
Would be kinda cool to have some more African and south+east Asian instances. I would happily donate to help get some instances hosted in poorer countries.
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 5 days ago:
The whole point of federation is that that can’t really happen.
- Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 5 days ago:
My question was about the “scientists are not allowed to” part. I’ve never heard to such restrictions, and been in the field for more than a decade.
- Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 6 days ago:
What… Are you taking about? I know hundreds of scientists and the vast majority of them interact with social media just as much as normal people.
- Comment on Scientists move to Bluesky, transitioning away from X and Meta platforms 6 days ago:
Some of us have. There are a few science focused servers.
- Comment on Are conservatives mad about trans people or they just mad they get walk around out of the closet while they have to leave the white sheets at home? 6 days ago:
You realise the only laws relating to restrictions on freedoms around trans issues are being implemented by conservatives, right?
- Comment on In the US, it's finally socially acceptable again to clap when the plane lands 1 week ago:
Is a Boeing that lands with missing parts still a plane?
- Comment on In the US, it's finally socially acceptable again to clap when the plane lands 1 week ago:
There are at least two whales though…
- Comment on place yer bets 1 week ago:
Risk is probability times consequence. Focusing on the odds without considering the second half of the equation is stupid.
- Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes 1 week ago:
Scientists: invents commercial scale fusion Capitalist: hordes the almost free energy because why not? Poor people are only useful as a resource anyway.
- Comment on France runs fusion reactor for record 22 minutes 1 week ago:
Wait, what is the cheaper alternative to the moon landing?
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 2 weeks ago:
Holy crap I feel old now. Since when? I’m still driving a car without a touch screen, and that’s never going to change.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 2 weeks ago:
I wonder how hard it would be to make an open source car brain that can be a drop-in replacement for the commercial ones?
- Comment on Might be fun idk 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism | Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 3 weeks ago:
Doom scrolling is facilitated by ad-optimised algorithms that push low-nuance, emotive content that gets a reaction, for views. (Thinking particularly of twitter and Facebook here)
The fediverse doesn’t have that, and has no reason to, because as soon as any provider starts pushing ads, people will switch servers. So I think it WILL stay that way.
Also, I think as a consequence of having less combatitive content up front, people are generally in a less heightened emotional state as a baseline, and are able to approach more nuanced content more thoughtfully.
- Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users. 3 weeks ago:
Yep. Already true to a large extent. But it doesn’t take a majority of the world to make the fediverse work. We just need enough for it to become broadly attractive to a critical mass of people. It’s big enough to self-sustain now, so I think it’s just a matter of time until it hits that point.
- Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users. 3 weeks ago:
Good take. Bluesky is a good stop-gap.
I’ve also been thinking, if Bluesky never federates and enshittifies in a similar way to Twitter (which it will do much faster, just cause it’s a different era), then the Bluesky exodus will really have a solid reason to try to understand why decentralisation is so important…
- Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users. 3 weeks ago:
What… are you talking about?
- Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users. 3 weeks ago:
Bluesky has the network effect, at least for some domains of content. Mastodon has about 50% coverage of my domain of interests, but that’s probably way less for many people.
Mastodon has the guaranteed lack of enshittification via decentralisation. Bluesky is promising it, but it seems far from guaranteed, and if it doesn’t happen, I’m betting it’ll enshittify about 4 times faster than twitter, because everything does these days…
So Bluesky is probably a better bet in the short term for general users… I’m glad people are escaping twitter at least. But I’m sticking with Mastodon, 'cause fuck going through all that again in a couple of years.
- Comment on Bluesky now has 30 million users. 3 weeks ago:
Then a rapid decent into profit maximisation at the expense of user experience.
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 3 weeks ago:
🫂
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 3 weeks ago:
OK, that would be funny
- Comment on Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt 3 weeks ago:
I think the answer is some kind of cynical optimism. Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst. You never know, they might all die tomorrow in a plane crash or something.
- Comment on Psst, the Americans are asleep, post some eggs 3 weeks ago:
Who ever down voted this better watch out, the koalas will be on to you, mate
- Comment on Psst, the Americans are asleep, post some eggs 3 weeks ago:
I’m in aus (Newy), and we don’t use the fridge, even in summer. Never had a problem.
- Comment on I'll show them 3 weeks ago:
You should checkout Black Comedy, from SBS
- Comment on I'll show them 3 weeks ago:
uBlock Origin on Firefox
- Comment on I'll show them 3 weeks ago:
That’s some ominous capitalisation you got there
- Comment on I'll show them 3 weeks ago:
Are there way more Australians on Lemmy than I expected, or are people up voting you you of confusion?
- Comment on Choosing pink is chaotic evil? 1 month ago:
Why is this so funny? It’s fucking stupid 😂
