I’ve never really cared about Flipboard and thought they were just another blog site, but I’m starting to realize they do actually enjoy the fedi and internet freedom
I am going to reply to my other one, I don’t want to do a switch and bait in case you don’t like what I’m going to say:
ActivityPub is planning on having advertising, this isn’t going to be an advertising free space. Towards the end, he talks about it. IMO, they think of the fediverse as like a small town with billboards, retail storefronts, houses, family gatherings, places to date (he mentioned he wanted dating sites to pop up), etc. That you can have one address for all of it and you control the reach. It sounds like, correct me if I’m wrong, it will depend on what instance you’re on, but advertising can and will pop up. I’m not sure how any of that will work in the future, but I did want to mention it to prepare some people. It might be more quiet than pop-ups? I’m not sure.
He did mention something like that in a vague way, so I didn’t really know for sure what he was saying. I also think he has kind of a naive understanding of how these companies are going to go all in on trying to advertise the shit out of stuff so they can make more money, following the rules or not.
I will never use any instance that federates with instances that federate with instances not run by someone as a hobby. Imagine what could happen if they threaten us to defederate!
I was never really into Flipboard but after watching their launch ad from 2010 I’m realizing that their business has always been about trying to jam fediverse functionality into web2. No surprise they’re so all in
This is a cute comic, but it would be much, much worse if the director was the type to send change requests directly to the junior associate.
Because it won’t just be font size. It will be some impractical idea that you’ve already ruled out in three weeks ago in meetings with your manager, but now you have to drop everything and waste more time spinning wheels to either attempt the director’s dumb idea, or you have to spend time explaining to him why you’ve already ruled it out, and do so without seeming lazy or insubordinate.
While you’re doing this special task for the director, your workload is piling up and your manager thinks you’re slacking because the director emails you directly and never bothers to CC your supervisor. You can try to diligently CC your supervisor on all replies, and even mention your supervisor in emails (the classic “looping in x”), but rest assured, the director will never use reply-all.
I noticed on paragraph 3 of this policy-mandated letter that literally no one but me will ever read–and it’s mind-boggling that even I read it–that you referred to “December 2022.”
As it is December 2023, and December 2023 is referred to multiple times elsewhere in the aforementioned letter, can you please clarify to which month this document refers?
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