ArtificialHoldings

@ArtificialHoldings@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I acted like a semi white power douche. On X Meta or whatever. And was a yes man to Elon and promoted the Orange Peel. While using fake photos of myself. Can I bilk them for alot of cash?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’d be more valuable to the grift as a black lesbian nurse. They are always looking for people with identities that the left claims to protect/empower, who are willing to run interference and act like there’s no need for political protection. That’s why Candace Owens, Milo Yiannopoulos, Dave Rubin, and Blaire White are big names in their circles. All people with “DEI” identities who are willing to decry the left and rationalize every last thing done by the GOP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Skill issue⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Ego soothing, peacocking behavior

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The right-to-repair movement is growing as wins stack up⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When written out like this, it seems simple as - but the most simple version really isn’t what’s at stake. Companies make and trademark specialized tools for their goods, to prevent third parties from providing repairs. Warrantys are written to keep a company from being liable for repair/replacement if a customer attempts to repair a product themselves.

  Pretty much every case in the right to repair movement is a challenge to a legally acceptable means of market capture, that just happens to create a stupendously shitty consumer environment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big-tech is evil but could Fediverse benefit from more small/medium for-profit companies?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Protocols can be developed and then shared without cost except for the upfront development costs. Hosting a continuous service requires regular income, meaning for profit models will always out-resource non-profit models of hosting. Especially if a platform is looking at hosting more than just text and compressed images. Why do you think Pixelfed’s main host only allows uploads of up to 15MB?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big-tech is evil but could Fediverse benefit from more small/medium for-profit companies?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fediverse is open source and decentralized, so any for-profit model could leverage it without asking for anyone’s permission. There are already for-profit companies that build and maintain apps to access Fediverse platforms. Meta Threads and Tumblr are both integrating into ActivityPub as their own hosts. I imagine in a future where Fediverse grows rampantly, the hosts with the best overall user experience will be for-profit. We live in a world of global capitalism, good things cost money most of the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tinder-alternatives for the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s nowhere near a reasonable number of users on Fediverse to sustain a geo-local dating app. Tinder already has to rate-limit matches so people don’t swipe through their entire dating pool in one day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I imagine Lemmy skews WAY to the side of PCs/computers. But the average consumer is almost exclusively using their phone for everything except work and taxes. I’m a digital native and I even find browsing Lemmy to be easier via app than browser.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Tesseract Lemmy app shows a news source ranking from MBFC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention all the domain-specific knowledge you’d need to properly evaluate claims. All the critical thinking skills in the world are worthless if you don’t have contextual knowledge of whatever subject is in the news. It’s just not realistic for everyone to be a policy wonk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Tesseract Lemmy app shows a news source ranking from MBFC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There is too much information to process for any one person to just use their critical thinking skills to fact check a news organization as large as CNN, much less every major news organization. No, it’s not enough to teach critical thinking skills and hope every person is able to discern bias in the media they consume, because you’re asking for extremely domain-specific skills and legwork that a single consumer just isn’t capable of.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Onboarding experience needs to be simpler for mass adoption⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Can you expand that last line? I don’t understand clearly what you mean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be the change you want to see in Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  These aren’t global fediverse rules, they’re constraints meant to apply specifically to the new user experience on Lemmy only.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be the change you want to see in Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Personally I’m totally fine with just hand selecting starter instances rather than trying to maintain a facade of neutrality. So many instances defederate with hexbear that it’s a different experience and should probably be an intentional choice for the user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Very inside baseball opinion. It’s like me describing reddit as “endless drama” because I read every thread on subreddit drama.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of disingenuous Lemmy users in that thread pretending that picking a server is more confusing than filing your taxes. I think join-lemmy should probably hot-list like 6 or 7 servers instead of making you choose via a primary interest, since you can migrate your account later anyway. But I am personally not tech oriented and managed to make an account and find an app without an issue.