Tsamina mina, eh, eh. Waka waka, eh, eh
Tsamina mina, eh, eh. Waka waka, eh, eh
this is a clear case of hate crime that ended in murder
The kid fortunately survived.
That was always the point of the blue check under Elon. It’s very clear already that blue checks have vastly higher reach and engagement. This all started back in December.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/23/23523845/twitter-blue-paying-priority-replies-conversations
We really weren’t.
It’s a 50/50 split between Waldemar and Eugen.
Not surprising. We’re in a gold rush for AI and Nvidia is selling shovels.
I had a look at my bank account, and it turns out I actually can’t.
I think the issue is that people nowadays have come to expect a certain degree of individualized feeds and discovery features.
There is probably plenty of content on mastodon that would be of interest to any given user, but the discoverability is kind of lacking - especially if you are used to Twitter’s algorithmic feed.
I wonder what it is that is keeping more diverse users away?
One aspect is that federation is definitely a bit harder to wrap your head around technically.
But I think another large contributor is the fact that culturally, the zoomers never really grew up with things like independent forums. I’m 33 and back in t the day it was very common for me to be signed up to many different forums for my different interests. Over time, I’ve seen the centralization of those communities, forums shut down and centralized services like Reddit, and lately Discord took their place.
I remember a time when the internet wasn’t solely controlled by a handful of organisations, I can see the value in federated systems.
But someone who only knows centralized services and walled gardens is likely to fear the wild, or at least won’t value it as much.
//edit: Another thing to keep in mind, is that it’s just very common for this demographic to be early adopters for tech products and platforms.
I remember when Twitter started, and a large part of its early user base was people in their 30s or older who were very into tech, or journalists. The reason I started using Twitter towards the end of the 2000s was because most of the podcast hosts and regular contributors on the TWiT network were using it.
Seems to me that if you want to launch a social media platform, your early adopters are either guys who are into tech and in their 30s and 40s or teenage girls.
Interesting, is your fork available publicly or was that just a personal project?
Embrace, extend, extinguish is exactly what first came to my mind when I heard about threads planning to federate. I think it is a huge risk.
Laws are threats made by the dominant socioeconomic-ethnic group in a given nation. It’s just the promise of violence that’s enacted and the police are basically an occupying army. You know what I mean?
Shreddit is great. Have been using it in docker for ages to periodically remove comments that are older than a certain amount of time.
What did you have to adapt, though?
Me too! I’m flip-flopping between Underground 2 and Most Wanted 2005.
Great games, running great in PCSX2.
Eternal September is early this year.
I think generally speaking, you can make the distinction between something like lemmy/reddit and something like mastodon/twitter as putting interest/community first or putting the individual first.
Lemmy/Reddit is great if you want to follow a specific topic and don’t necessarily care about what the individual users think. I don’t know about you, but I barely ever read or acknowledge someone’s username on those platforms.
Mastodon/Twitter is great if you want to follow specific people for their opinions. Like seeing what certain politicians or analysts have to say about developments in Ukraine. Things that might be interesting but not quite newsworthy, or putting news into a different context.
For any given interest you have, there are probably some voices who you care about hearing from more than others, be it just because you know them personally or because they are experts in their respective fields. Microblogging platforms are built to support that individual-first approach.
Pretty much, yes. - Shodan user