Pretty sure a lot of Fedi users are going to understand this reference.
@scy Haha! I totally get it! I'm having a difficult time explaining it to my friend Bob, though. Could you try to explain it to him like he's five? Thanks!
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size is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.
cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/37870004
reddit got bad because spez (the reddit admin) restricted API access to the platform for third-party apps, such that people would be forced to use the official app or web UI, both of which display advertisement and collect user data (e.g. scroll behavior).
the reason why this happened is because reddit is a for-profit company and tries to extract money out of the userbase, at the expense of the users.
another example of a bad decision that reddit made was to push a lot of ragebait (“Am I The Asshole?”) because company shareholders want to see “engagement numbers” go up, and if somebody writes an angry reply to a post, that’s “engagement”. but it makes you angry at the stupidity of the “Asshole”, so it makes your day worse. that is another example how reddit makes money at the expense of the users.
size (number of monthly active users) is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is.
we should probably get rid of the “don’t make lemmy grow, it will ruin the platform if we grow” idea.
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I mean, I agree. “content” is extremely an airquote situation, as an abstraction. I also dislike the term, but need some kind of catch-all for describing the ever increasing demand the fediverse has for space and processing. It’s a real problem, though one that many people (not me) are actively working to solve and I’m grateful for that work.
My concern about fediverse space has more to do with inter-connected federation storage issues, such as caching content from other instances. Having seen how even small instances balloon in costs, it has completely scared me away from even attempting to host a small instance. I might have this wrong though, but I’ve heard horror stories about space requirements due to the caching-heavy nature of the federated internet.
Oh yes, that is a real concern if the fediverse grows big. I wonder of a fedi CDN is theoretically possible, or if we by design are stuck with pushing the same content (I wish we had a better word) to thousands of instances in parallell?
The way I feel though, is that I’d rather have the decentralized non-commercial social media, even if that means that my instance has size restrictions to limit costs. Maybe we have been conditioned to assume that it’s trivial to send large 4K videos as a baseline standard, when that is actually quite expensive. Idk, what is the way forward, frugal content, or cdn efficiency without losing control?
@tuban_muzuru @divVerent G2-C6
bass arias very rarely go to G2 or lower, not because basses can't sing that low but because it doesn't carry well over an orchestra.
the C6 is not pretty but it exists lol
@tuban_muzuru @divVerent I get F2 here but I had to boost the volume, it would not be usable unamplified IRL. Lowest note I can phonate without vocal fry is E2, but ya not opera-acceptable
Dox: Basecamp delenda est.
Regular readers may recall my year-long attempt to find a replacement for Basecamp (in the interest of not paying monthly rent to a fascist) and the plenitude of terrible suggestions that resulted.
Well, last week I just white-knuckled it and wrote my own from scratch. I call it "Dox"...
https://jwz.org/b/ylC3
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NVIDIA Stocks plummeted again after the Jensen Huang had another affair with Nvidia VP Kimberly Powell. Nvidia has already launched an investigation into first affair between Huang and an alleged Chinese spy, Alice Huang. The FBI is also investigating it and now Nvidia board is getting ready to fire Jensen Huang. And here we thought AI will crash due to FOMO & overspending but real reason is lust. Lmao. He is corrupt to the core https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c6zjry11v8w1t
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シュバババっと移動するしゅいろさん
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パイズリ…
Found my old Sony VAIO laptop from 2009, this thing was a beast back in the day!
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I am shocked that the 63 year old billionaire businessman who goes about leather biker jackets is a shagger if only there's some way we could have known
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All of us in the spy community knew about it.
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愛おしすぎる、見て
I don't remember much of anything from the first part except for the Regen Gel and Stephen the Vulcan…
I remember the Second Part very well, but I had mistakenly thought it was from Haldeman's World Without End, but now that I look up the plot of that book I recall that I did read it and didn't think it was that memorable.
So I had read this before, I'd just forgotten all the "Crew getting to know each other and it's prickly" parts.
The Klingons enjoying the horrible neo-Shakespeare is like the good version of the endings of eighties cartoons where everybody laughed for two minutes.
