The strength of life to face oneself has been made manifest. The persona Carighan has appeared.
Exactly. The design, the sign-up process, the colors, the formatting, it’s all very pre-Musk-Twitter.
Even the icon is reminiscent!
It’s as smooth a transition as you can make it, so no wonder people do it effortlessly.
Meanwhile in camp Mastodon: “Please pick a server” -> tab closed already
Because the mastodon evangelists are horrible.
Yeah that’s another thing, Mastodon is kinda nice, except for its userbase. :P
Because people I want to follow are on Bluesky?
(I mean, duh? Did you really need people to state that?!)
Porn doesn’t wreck your mind if you’re a sensible person?
What are we talking about here? Easily impressionable people with no frame of reference? They’re susceptible to everything. Well-adjusted people with prior information? They’re susceptible to neither.
I would agree, but I’m still frantically thinking whether I actually agree and whether I should be expressing that publicly!
Difficult to say as that’s really not a common case at all. Might just lack evidence for how to understand this.
Obviously the former. In fact, it’s 1440p/165Hz right now, and I have 0 intent to increase resolution further since modern unoptimized games already struggle with this.
Pretty obviously false, and I’d genuinely question the social and intellectual capabilities of anybody who truly believes this - originally sarcastic - phrase.
Exactly this.
Indifference is how you know something doesn’t matter. I remember this lesson even from game development: People complaining about your game is still alright. When the feedback stops entirely, that’s when you fucked up.
Of course. It’s still just a software project.
Ah, the four basic types of coffee, Regular, Posh, Italian and Wrong.
@CuddlyCassowary ABSOLUTELY DESTROYS this topic!
I mean hyperloop is just “train, but bad”. No clue what people ever saw in that “tech”.
No but you bring up a good example: You don’t get your sub for donating money to Subway. You have to pay them to get it. But in return, it provides a - questionable, some would say - service to you by providing you with food.
But recently, they’ve started putting some of their articles behind a paywall. Since I was already donating, I automatically have access.
In that case I don’t see a problem. In a lot of ways your donation became a subscription, but then again, news cost money to make. This was true during the print days, and is no less true during the digital age.
There’s the compounding issue that something that seems simple on the surface, say, pairing a pair of bluetooth headphones, is a convoluted mess of super-complicated shit on a technical level.
And to even handle that, the engineer making the app that handles these does not know about how to sync an L and an R headpiece. And the person who knows about that does not know how to establish contact via bluetooth. Etc. It’s layers upon layers upon layers of tricky technical stuff. Each of which has the ability to propagate buggy behavior both up and down the layers. And each engineer probably cannot easily fix the other layers (they’re not theirs), so they work around the bugs. Over time this adds an insane amount of complexity to the code as hundreds of these tiny adjustments are spread everywhere.
Oooh, I did not know that. TYVM!
So long as it’s possible to ban the bot so I don’t see the spam, sure.
Nice try, FBI!
Of course, but good luck getting those 5% of users that actually produce nearly 100% of the content to move over if their business model cannot work. And once those move, you know where all the people following them move.