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phillaholic ,

Good. Stop printing.

phillaholic ,

I always saw it as someone who only repeats talking points verbatim is essentially a robot. If I can’t tell if you are a human posting, or an automated response is there a meaningful difference?

phillaholic ,

Maybe a hot take, but if you want this big libertarian anarchist federated system you get all the pros and cons along with it. Not having a central authority means you have no real power to stop someone from coming in and taking it. It’s inevitable by design.

phillaholic ,

Sure, but the rhetoric behind it is my point. Trying to get everyone to do it is antithetical to the design of the system.

phillaholic ,

If you consider each instance as the “person” it’s essentially libertarianism.

phillaholic ,

In theory. In reality you’re bringing feather dusters to a nuclear bomb fight. A handful of hobbyists hosting instances with how many users? Couple hundred thousand? Against a 100 Billion dollar company with 3 Billion people? Yea good luck with that.

phillaholic ,

We’ll see. I don’t think you can beat a 100 Billion dollar company with 3 Billion users if they are motivated enough.

phillaholic ,

I don’t see moving instances as this simple thing that everyone else does. Until I can bring my comments and subscriptions over instantly it’s a huge waste of time. Regular users aren’t going to do that. I’m on my third instance already and almost didn’t make the third jump due to the annoyance of adding them all again.

phillaholic ,

That’s the tolerance paradox by another name.

phillaholic ,

And then instances start fighting and decelerate from each other and it becomes this annoying game of will I be able to see the content I want to tomorrow? We’ll see how it turns out. Needing to keep moving instances isn’t my idea of a good thing like everyone else seems to think it is.

phillaholic ,

If it’s no big deal why the immediate talk of defederating? And if they get annoying, every one of the instances I happen to follow something on has to defederate to keep the community at the same engagement level. I can personally block instances which is great, but that’s not helpful if the community starts posting there. It’s already sometimes difficult to keep topics together across who knows how many instances, with random defederation it makes it more difficult to experience lemmy with users on different instances.

It’s just my opinion, but the reddit backend wasn’t the important part that we lost, it’s the content and community. If my instance goes to shit I can move somewhere else, but I’m disconnected from my posts, follows, etc. that’s what I care about. Not the tech. I try not to, but I can’t help but be pessimistic on the idea when I feel like the point is being missed entirely.

phillaholic ,

In real life you’re probably not traversing three or more countries in a single day. You’re much closer to small communities at this scale, and having all these differences at that level is terrible for community building. Reddit was complicated enough with subreddit specific rules for regular people. Now you may not be able to find the same content as your friend if they signed up for a different instance, which is suggested as a feature not a bug. It’s exactly the same time of idealism without thoughts of consequence that libertarianism has.

phillaholic ,

Haven’t really done much with Mastadon, I always liked following topics over people, and when I last tried it was still firmly people based.

phillaholic ,

Call me a pessimist, but people are caring way too much about the idealistic implementation of the technology and missing the fact that the tech doesn’t mean shit compared to the community. If you don’t care about the community growing, then that’s one thing. But if you do, Threads is the competition that you won’t be able to beat if they feel like putting in the effort.

phillaholic ,

I get that cult feeling for sure. There is a lot less nuance here. I’d be curious of the average demographic because I see a lot of naivety that’s probably linked to age & experience.

phillaholic ,

Yes. Imagine if every culdasac had its own set of laws that you’d have to consider. Some your friends can’t come i to. Others don’t acknowledge the culdasac next door exists. Sure you could move to the culdasac you fit in with the best, but I wouldn’t want to limit my friends or interests that narrowly, nor would I want those things to be taken away from me and be forced to move all the time. I don’t see it as better.

phillaholic ,

Yes. Imagine if every culdasac had its own set of laws that you’d have to consider. Some your friends can’t come i to. Others don’t acknowledge the culdasac next door exists. Sure you could move to the culdasac you fit in with the best, but I wouldn’t want to limit my friends or interests that narrowly, nor would I want those things to be taken away from me and be forced to move all the time. I don’t see it as better.

phillaholic ,

What are you talking about? There’s nothing stopping corporations from coming here and doing the same exact thing they’ve gone covertly on Reddit. If Lemmy becomes popular enough it will happen. Arguably it already has from certain interests and people here are extremely naive if they think it’s not.

phillaholic ,

Some of the issues, like multiple communities of the same subject were true of reddit in the beginning, and perhaps time will solve the issue, but your right in discovery being terrible. I still don’t know what the Apple community is. Half the time using iOS the app fails to load search. Other times there doesn’t appear to be many subscribers on any over any other. Subscribing to multiple just gives me the same topics over and over again. So I end up with a feed that doesn’t refresh much and has many duplicates. Not a ton of discussion or self posts either.

phillaholic ,

You wouldn’t want to traverse the border red-tape, that’s my point.

phillaholic ,

People are thrilled to try and build something new and people like you come and shit on them to try to recreate reddit.

I’m not stopping you. If you want to re-lean the lessons of the past because you ignore those that experienced them, feel free. You can’t design a system ripe for corporate takeover and act shocked when it happens.

phillaholic ,

I just want to find the content I like, the content that helps me solve problems, and a way to interact with it without being forced to see ads. I’m not going to use a worse product just because it’s not controlled by a corporation and I don’t think I’m alone in that across most of the population.

phillaholic ,

Little chance many people in that area have the ability to have a satellite dish given they’d need outdoor space for it, and about 20% of the population lives in three sky scrappers.

phillaholic ,

I did this one time accidentally. Needed to drop my car off for inspection and the guy on the phone told me to drop it off at 8am. I needed to catch their shuttle to work, so I interpreted that as it needed to be dropped by by 8am, not that they opened at 8am. He could have been clearer over the phone, and their hours were posted on a small piece of paper on a bulletin board two feet to the right of the door.

phillaholic ,

Spotify plays a significant role in transforming music into a product akin to fast food, prioritizing mass consumption over artistic value.

Have you never heard of Top 40 before?

phillaholic ,

I don’t agree with that at all. I’ve started listening to 10x more small artists via Spotify than I ever had through any other medium. They’ll never be on the radio or anything like that. Spotify has recommended these artists based on what I listen to, I haven’t sought them out.

I don’t believe radio pays artists anything do they?

phillaholic ,

I think you’re twenty years too late on that worry. Most artists didn’t make any money once iTunes came out and singles became popular.

phillaholic ,

He’s 93. He hasn’t gotten by on luck alone for the 82 years he’s been investing (Yes, he bought his first stock at 11). His essential strategy and advice are solid.

phillaholic ,

This would assume he’s making random picks and getting lucky. He’s not. He’s the most successful “Value Investor” of which his mentor Benjamin Graham is considered the father of. The advice isn’t a secret, it’s all out there.

phillaholic ,

Other people do. It’s not a get rich quick scheme, so it’s hard to beat 80 years in the market. He avoids a lot of stocks that do very well too. I’m not saying following every move he makes will make you rich, I’m saying his general advice and strategy works.

phillaholic ,

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Monday_(1987)

phillaholic ,

I don’t want to even rent a car without CarPlay. Good luck with that GM.

phillaholic ,

Some are better than others. You can control CarPlay without touching the screen in Mazdas for example.

phillaholic ,

One of?

phillaholic ,

Can you get console access to Virtual Machines in AWS?

phillaholic ,

The ending of the Netflix documentary where the flat earthers prove the earth is round is hysterical.

phillaholic ,

during the credits the guy was making excuses for why it failed, did he come out later saying he was wrong?

phillaholic ,

It wasn’t the main guy but one of the guys on site doing the pole experiment. I recall him saying “that’s interesting” after confirming the test worked, proving the curvature. It sounded like he was questioning his beliefs, but during the credits he’s on a podcast or radio show making some bs up about how the test was wrong.

Why do people always assume you're part of a group just because you're defending them?

Have we really become so unempathetic as a society that the act of putting yourself in others’ shoes is unbelievable to the point that people assume you must be part of the group you’re defending? So I often see people being unfairly discriminatory and mean to certain types, attributes or qualities of people, which I know...

phillaholic ,

I get that when I try to explain to people what is meant by “Black people can’t be racist”; the difference between overt and systemic racism etc. It’s frustrating that they refuse to even acknowledge the meaning even if they disagree with it. They will continue to argue against the wrong point.

phillaholic ,

Spiced does not mean spicy hot.

Yea but like… it’s way hotter than most other American food by default.

phillaholic ,

You can argue semantics until you go blue in the face. If you’re not used to spicy food or hot food, or food that produces a similar feeling in the mouth, you have to be careful with Indian food. Your tolerance level isn’t everyone else’s.

phillaholic ,

What’s the point in being so pedantic? Calling it the correct thing isn’t going to make it palatable.

phillaholic ,

Dumb. Just release it. Every day Google waits is just another day Apple’s AirTags remain superior. Why would they change?

phillaholic ,

Depends on how many used deals to upgrade Gold or whatever.

phillaholic ,

Luck’s got little to do with it. Dogs were selectively bred for those traits.

phillaholic ,

What are they going to do, black mail me by telling my friends I listen to Taylor Swift occasionally?

phillaholic ,

They have my payment information. They don’t need to guess.

phillaholic ,

Scissors?

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