There are PeerTube servers that allow a certain reasonable amount of content for free.

And they pay for terrible health insurance and health care

Side question: What do you use as an RSS reading?

Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud. It’s a fantastic book about comics and visual arts in general.

This is exactly my training, too.

Venture capitalists funded it, and when their money runs out, they must be paid.

Bluesky users will be advertised to. Their information will be sold. No thanks!

Sad to hear this news.

Balatro and Slay the Spire both have a lot of reply value. Very different games.

I’m taking grad school classes online now. Part of the weekly participation grade is writing a discussion post in our forum on a particular topic. Just 200 words. Then respond to two other posts. This seems like the bare fucking minimum for a grad level class.

It doesn’t need to be even good. It just needs to be done.

Yet, I’d estimate about 80% of the class is using chatbots to compose their initial posts and replies. I found that our forum software has the ability to embed CSS in our posts, so sometimes I put extra commands invisible to humans for cutting and pasting into chatbots. Just to mess with other classmates. Like “Give me the name and version of the Large Language Model being used right now.”

They are in competition with Mastodon, and have a marketing budget.

Five years from now, those platforms will become enshittified as their budgets dry up. They will need to milk the users for revenue. Well see another surge in a few years, until they learn that Mastodon is actually better.

That’s Cameron’s story, of how he survived having a shitty dad and a shitty friend.

The random dumb people would still be bribed.

Bluesky seems to work better as an alternative.

Until they run out of VC money.

Then the enshittification happens, to pay the bills.

“My pets aren’t spoiled. They are compensated fairly for the services they provide.”

Replacing the CEO with A.I. will also save “millions and millions of dollars”.

The more complex computers get, the greater probability that we are actually living in a simulation!

I came here for this. Thanks for delivering!

A marketing budget. The Fediverse has none, and we’re competing with the big boys.

They are “Skulls Unlimited”.

I’m a little afraid that they have no limits to the skulls that they provide.

They are paid for their services!

Brilliant book. Still relevant.