Honestly, it sounds like you’ve been spending too much time in some online communities that are doom posting about everything. Do things suck right now? Yes, but they’ve literally sucked for as long as human society has existed.
Ah. I was worried for a second he may have been stuck in places that are only pessimistic doom posting. Good to know that life sucks now, and has always sucked. That’s the positive message we need right now.
Either that or a god damned pitchfork…
rolls eyes
I thought the whole point of the fediverse was that it doesn’t matter which service you use, just as long as you’re in the pool.
People that old don’t even understand their environment, or what’s going on around them. To her, I’m sure she led a perfectly respectable driving test, and is unsure why she’s being denied.
Must be the doing of (insert group of people you hate here).
I mean…it’s getting harder and harder to buy a house as an individual. Apartment living is very real. And if you rent in a duplex, you’re not going to buy a washer/dryer.
So…yeah. I’d say not owning washer/dryer starts becoming more common if you’re under 45, and gets more common the younger you go.
For the past 20 years I’ve been saying to people who wouldn’t listen, we need to make sure all this new technology works FOR us, and not AGAINST us.
I’m a firm believer in spectrums. And I firmly believe that every possible eventuality on a spectrum of outcomes has an equal chance of happening. The only controling factors are the variables which dictate a set of events.
What this means is just because people do things one way, and have always done things one way, doesn’t mean they always will do things one way.
Basically, we have an equal chance of adolph hitler coming back from the dead, as we do jesus coming back from the dead. Those two events have equal likelyhood. And everything in between is also fair game.
So when I was saying in the early 2000s, that given the right tools, and the wrong authority, the internet could be used as a privacy invasion tool to spy on all americans. No one cared.
Then in 2012, when the whole Edward Snowden thing came out, I thought “Ok. This will be the thing to get Americans angry, and demand transparency from their governmemt. They’ll begin to place importance on privacy.”
Nope. They STILL didn’t care. My mom still thinks I made up the whole concept of the NSA. Not the concept of the NSA spying on us. She thinks I made of the core concept of what the NSA is. And when I asked her at the time if I made up the NSA, then who is Edward Snowden, and what did he do?"
Her response was “Someone you made up too.” When I asked her how he’s in the news if I made him up, she said “I never heard him on the news.”
That was when I knew it was pointless. There was nothing stopping the government from spying on us, and as I’d see years later, nothing stopping cops from abusing power.
So now I know, for every George Floyd who makes the news, theres 1000 more that don’t, whose cops go unchecked. And the publics response is indifference, because it didn’t affect them.
And now this.
WE will read this story. It WILL be used against people. It won’t make the news. There will be no outrage. Then one day, your daughter may have an unplanned pregnancy. I’m not even going to go full hysteria and say rape baby. I’m saying your daughter will have stupid sex, with no condom, regardless of age, 14, 28, doesn’t matter. What matters is she’s pregnant, and it will ruin her life.
So now she goes out of state, and gets an abortion. Then she’s arrested because they tracked her. NOW it affects you. Now your daughter is doing 20 years in jail for “murder”.
And the only way this stops, is something that will never happen. The way to end this, is for women to give birth to the baby, then kill 3 men, then kill the baby on the steps of their states capitol in a way that’s very violent. Blood everywhere. It needs to capture the news attention. Then kills herself. THEN that needs to be a trend. For the anti-abortion law existing to not only reduce population, but punishes men specifically. And then cause emotional outrage among women for having to see dead baby blood on the capitol daily.
But that won’t happen. It won’t happen because even me typing that is going to anger the majority of you. It may even get my post deleted. But that same sense of being offended is exactly the mentality that will get it to stop.
Instead, everyone will ignore everyone elses problems, until it becomes their problems. Everybody wants a safe space, but nobody is willing to fight for it…and that’s exactly what they use against us to pass bills that control us. Knowing the fight just won’t materialize. And until some drastic extreme fight is brought to their doorstep, they’ll just keep going.
Always carry a box of nails in your car. Then, when you see this, place it just under his tire. So when he backs up, he punctures his tire. You could even use 4 nails. One for each tire. Or, even more evil, only 3. He’ll still have to pay for the 4th tire replacement, even though nothing is wrong with the 4th tire.
What defines “Good Guys”?
Is this windows 10 or 11?
Your honor…he hit me!
Nuh-uh!
Yeah huh!!!
He started it!!!
No I didn’t!!!
Moooooom!!!
Your mom has been dead for 32 years…you’re 81
And I’m still bike riding the mean streets of NYC!
Yeah, and getting billed for your bad driving.
Yeah. What I’m saying is, they federate, but people have no idea what “federate” means. So they’d come here, and see “@smeg@feddit.uk” and not understand what feddit.uk was.
They would see you, and think you are a user of the verizon owned service. Not question it one bit, and just move on thinking it’s all verizon.
The same way people in Atlanta will say “I want a coke” “What kind of coke?” “Root Beer”.
Or the same way parents in the 90s would say “I bought you a Nintendo Game!” then you open it, and it’s a Sega Saturn disc, when you have Sony Playstation. It’s all just a Nintendo to them.
I’m saying if Verizon grew Lemmy to 200 million users, and all except 60k were on the Verizon instance, then despite being incorrect, Lemmy becomes “The Verizon owned Facebook”.
Doesn’t matter that it’s federated.
Illegal I can begrudgingly agree with. Even though I am a proponent for piracy, I will conceed that for growth’s sake, the tools need a clear well defined path to moderation.
That being said, who’s to say what IS immoral and evil?
In the republicans minds, porn is evil and should be banned. Trans rights are evil and should be banned. Abortion is evil and should be banned.
I disagree with all those claims. I do not think any of them are immoral, or evil.
I think pineapple on pizza is wrong, and evil. Some agree, others don’t. If I had my way, promoting of pineapple on pizza would be banned.
Now, who’s to say what is, and what isn’t evil? I think the only clear line to a moderation approach is to have a clear, unquestionable set of rules. These rules are to be based on public laws.
Everything else, I feel you should have the freedom to do as you wish. But also, I believe other people that you don’t agree with should be free to do as they wish.
You may never know how someone feels, or understand their perspective, but as long as they aren’t breaking laws, I feel they should have the ability to feel that way consequence free.
I may not like that you put pineapples on your pizza, but I feel that you should have the right to enjoy it. Even if it goes against MY views as to what constitutes a REAL pizza! Much to my surprise, pineapple on pizza ISN’T illegal. So you should have the right to enjoy it…
And yes. I did take the most pandtentic example I could think of, in order to display the absurdity of the concept of how easy it is to accept others rights in this world that don’t affect you.
Now just apply that same concept to every other example in the world. Then take into consideration that by using vague undefined terms to define your rules, you create grey area that’s easy to exploit. Who’s to say what IS evil? Adults told their teenagers in the 1950s that Elvis was evil. Parents in the 1920s told their teenagers that jazz was evil.
We need to define the terms that define our rules.
What is stopping some big giant, let’s say Yahoo/Verizon from buying a shitload of storage, starting their own private instance which is open to the public, but private in the sense that only Verizon employees are admins and mods. Only Verizon controls things. Then advertise to the point that the average person on the street knows that Verizon.Lemmy exists, and assosiates Lemmy with being a Verizon thing? What is stopping big tech from pouring the money required for this concept to take off, and using their control over their instance from making the decentralized a centralized service in the general public’s minds?
Right now Lemmy is 60k people. Ok. What if Lemmy was 200 million people, and only 60k knew it was a decentralized service? Everyone else just thought Verizon owned Lemmy?
Oh. Oh I DARE you russia. I DARE you to try to push America around using airplanes and terrorism. Fuck around and find out what happens when you give America a REASON to attack an oil rich country with justified claims of fighting a war on terror.
America see’s a plane explode midair, the very first thing that gets asked in this country is “Who did it?” And the SECOND that question is answered, this entire country will be calling for us to bomb them to the stone age.
See, the MAD doctrine only applies when you have sane, rational, logical people dealing with a situation. Have you seen this country? We’re so trigger happy that we’re going to malls and movie theaters and schools, just shooting anyone. We feel abandoned by our government. We feel hopeless. We feel angry. We feel irritated. We feel frustrated. We’ve been in a never ending election cycle for 24 years. Yes, I realize elections were every 4 years even before 2000, but at least prior to that it felt like politics went away for 3 1/2 years after each election. We’ve been in the 2024 election season since 2015. In no small part due to russian election interfearance.
We’re at each others throats. We’re ready to kill. We’re ready to die. We’re ready…and now you want to become the target? You want to be the thing that unites us all, and says “You know what, you’re republican. I’m democrat. We’re both American…and these fuckers just attacked US. YOU READY TO GO TO WAR FRIEND???” and that republican would pull 16 guns from his hip, his boots, his legs, his jacket, and who knows where else? And why does he have all these guns on his person? Because it’s Tuesday! He’d say "We may have our differences, but take these 6 guns. I brought extras! I thought there might be a line for the buffet at cracker barrel. I wasn’t going to face that without extra guns! Sure, I may have already had 5 on me, but who would face a cracker barrel lunch rush without an extra 11 guns, and whiskey???
And THIS is the country russia wants to start shit with???
Russia. I fucking dare you.
If that happened here, the headline would read “Protester killed in street by apathetic driver. Suspect has not been named.”
I wouldn’t exactly call what I was complaining about my first week reposts, but I definately had system shock while I was still figuring out how things worked.
I’d see 3 different communities, all about the same topic, and I’d subscribe to them all.
Well, if you have 3 communities all focused on the same subject, when there’s breaking news about that subject, they’re all going to post that same news story.
So in my feed I’d see the same url posted from 3 different instances. It’s not exactly a repost, but it feels the same.
I still don’t know what the solution for that is. Feels less like a me problem, and more like a systems concept problem. Instead of having 3 communities with 3 users each, I feel like it’d be better to have 1 combined community with 20 users.
Now you may be saying “heeeey, wait a second! 3+3+3 doesn’t equal 20!!!”. In which case, congrats, you passed American public school high school. But I feel like one community with more users to start with would attract more users going forward. Kind of like a snowball effect that a single split community of 3 never got the snowball rolling on.
I like the idea of decentralized, I DON’T like the idea of fractured, and there is a difference. Right now, Lemmy feels like both.
So you take the good, you take the bad, you roll it up, and what’dya get? The facts of life…the facts of life…
Exactly! Yes!
I get downvoted everytime I point out that a healthy network comes with users. Lots of users. Users of all kinds. Users you don’t agree with. Users you do agree with. I said that the userbase of threads being on Lemmy would be a culture clash, but it would be a sign of a growing fediverse concept.
Everyone else says if the threads users federated with Lemmy, they would personally block the instance. Which just shows how much of a bubble the people here want to live in.
I work at an airport. You will never see a more diverse group of people from a bigger selection of places than at an international airport. I don’t agree with all of them. I don’t agree with the majority of them. But I can converse with them. I can make small talk for 10 minutes.
I treat the fediverse as I treat the real world. I wouldn’t look at these people and say “You’re banished from my existence for having conflicting politic or religious beliefs! Begone from my presence! You do not deserve to exist in my world!”
But thats how people here treat “outsiders” or “normies”.
I want the fediverse concept to grow. I want the idea of a concept that’s immune to corporate ownership by design to BE normalized.
Because right now, it’s a niche interest that 98% of people have never heard of. Corporations want to keep it that way…if they’ve even heard of the Fediverse. They might to be too busy exploiting labor, and polluting the planet with their private jets and resource sucking plants located in places that already have water shortages.
Yes I’m talking to you Nestle, and you Starbucks CEO. I don’t know how this comment turned into a rant against them specifically, but fuck Nestle, and fuck Starbucks.
Ok…let’ssay this goes EXACTLY as planned. Nothing wrong. No mistakes.
So these robots are marching towards a war in a formation of 50,000 robots.
And then the enemy releases their army of 50,000 robots.
They both shoot each other. Now there’s 100,000 broken robots in a field. Ok, now what? What did that accomplish?
And remember, that’s BEST case scenario. Where no robot malfunctions. No AI is fed garbage data. No robots are hacked. And every robot has a 1:1 kill ratio.
There’s a LOT more that can go wrong, but my main question is, how do robots fighting robots in a war do anything at all?
What’s wrong with just throwing MP3s on an SD card, or hard drive?
Edit: Love how I have 4 upvotes, 4 downvotes. So a pretty divicive statement I’ve made. Yet nobody has told me why mp3s on local storage is or is not a solution for self hosting music. No opinions shared, other than angry arrows in both directions.
Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool.
Because SOME people just won’t SHUUUUUT UUUUUUUUUUP already.
I wish real life had word limits on people talking. I remember like 10 years ago, working in an office setting with one woman who told me everyday what she saw on some kardashian show. I honestly don’t know if she told me the same things everyday, or if this was a daily show with constant new content. All I know is that OTHER people told me that this woman has kids, but she never talked one word about her kids. She only ever talked about the kardashians.
And I never listened to a thing she said. But I damn sure wish she had a mute button, or a word limit.
Well…I don’t know why you included Twitter on that list, as they’ve NEVER been part of the fediverse.
Threads is fully integrated. You can personally block them from your end, but thats all you.
It would be like saying “Dominos doesn’t make pizza. It has never been a pizza company”. With your logic being that you don’t like their pizza. Doesn’t make it true just because YOU don’t eat the pizza.
Bluesky I hear conflicting reports on. Some people say it is, because it can be, others say it’s not, because it’s not official. I get both sides on this.
But the last part…is objectively not true. It happrns to work that way FOR NOW. It just isn’t profitable enough for the major players to sink any real resources into.
The fact that it’s adfree has more to do with the fact that 60k people on all of Lemmy with most instances having a few hundred people “on” it, and also advertising companies not understanding the concept of federation.
I could start my own instance, and sell ads to corporate overlords. The biggest problem I’d face is the idea of trying to convince any company with money to spend that money on me putting an ad on for such a small audience.
If/when the fediverse ever gains momentum and becomes mainstream, you can guarentee that ads will be everywhere.
Because nobody owns the fediverse. Which means if I sell an ad on my instance, all federated instances will see the ad. Sure, you could defederate from my instance. But what would happen right now if lemmy.world sold ads? Is every instance going to defederate from the biggest instance, with the majority of communities? That would essentially break the fediverse.
We’re all on a service that you think is immune to centralization, but forgot the core concept that humans like to socially congragate. Which means it’s inevitable that there will always be one big dominant instance. Which means if this thing ever goes mainstream, the ads are coming, and they’ll be on all the big instances.