I find it sus that they say 100% of the proceedings will be donated. I’m wondering if a fair part of this is an attempt to clear their image after they delivered environmental activists over to monarchical and corporate interests in the EU.

¿Por qué no los dos?

Posting only the canonical YT link doesn’t really help the people who are on mobile and thus have less opportunity to install or use protection. Also, people who just copy-paste a YT link blindly are also likely to copy the tracker codes. Just about every YT link I’ve seen shared everywhere has trackers such as ?si=.

Even more important then to get them deessentialized if they’re already feeling like leaving.

This is already impacting futurology.today - one of the Mods is British, and because of this law doesn’t feel comfortable continuing. As they have back-end expertise with hosting, if they go, we may have to shut down the whole site.

Its good news that they are merely a mod and not an admin / op, then! That’s why documenting and transfer of knowledge is important! If they don’t feel capable of dealing with a stupid law, they should make themselves unnecessary to your community ASAP! Have them prepare to step down from the role by documenting everything that a replacement needs to be able to do, then as soon as another mod can test that the documentation works, derole them if that’s what they want.

It’s not really that complicated. In fact, it’s literally by design easier than the old 90’s “everyone in their own forum” where you literally had to sign up to each and every place to have a voice or a vote; now, you only need to sign-up to at best one instance.

In fact, I’d say much of the complains about complexity we see nowadays are part of the general appeal to anti-intellectualism that runs rampant on the modern internet. Most things should not be “fire and forget” for good reason, and the social internet, much like driving a car let alone a truck, is a good example why. It’s curious in that sense that you quote this:

As the saying goes, “Society can only move as fast as its slowest member.”

Before mentioning I’ve ever heard this anywhere where there’s decent people, so perhaps it’s something that’s told in KKK circles or the like. Like, this is so sorely and patently false it feels like an attempt at trolling. Society moves past the “slow” members and throws them under the proverbial progress bus all the fucking time. That’s what capitalism, collonnialism and consumerism is all about. A good society has to be slow, because it has to observe, think, evaluate and teach.

There are severe pain points still on the general fediverse experience and in some service / instance particulars. You make good point in mentioning a few of them such as the lack of unified onboarding, better guides (technical and visual) and quite definitively the discoverability problem. But I’d frown at some of the proposed solutions like “smart algorithms”

Lemme see, suicide from two gunshots to the back of the head?

While I do favour that UI improvements are needed - in particular for guest views and community sidebars, I’d say defo chasing the “big social” trends and UIs is not the way to go. Heck, I left Reddit partly because of the new UI (I know about old.reddit, it’s just there’s no promise of any kind to maintain it).

no no no no, I prefer the current status of things to anything blockchain.

I hope this teaches them the valuable lesson of always having domains with more than one registrar.

Or, hopefully, we migrate to a system more advanced than DNS registrars where your “name” can be taken down by an unrelated third party. The current system sucks and the fact that even the Fediverse relies on it (accounts are tied to domains, making full account migration impossible) makes even the remains of my pre-graduate CS student brain rumble.

I don’t want to, BUT companies are supposed to make efforts to protect their IP or they run the risk of losing those exclusive protections when it matters later on (abandonment).

My understanding is that 1.- they are not forced to defend against every possible case of trademark usage 2.- they are not obligated by law to be jerks about it and 3.- this applies to trademark only, not copyright or patents.

It entirely depends on the channels you watch. All of the comments I read on the channels I follow are fine. I don’t know what other people are having a problem with, but maybe they shouldn’t be following Mr. Beast or Logan Paul bullshit.

Oh how much I wish people would listen to you on this…

I womder if “history is cyclic” applies here somehow and all that…

But I feel it’s kinda a more domain-specific thing. I’d venture and take the guess that people in some fields such as origami or other arts & crafts, as well as cooking, would actually have far better use for instructions and how-tos in video format (or at least in audio…) than in text, for one.

(I’ll be both happy and unhappy to be ackshually’d, and for the same reasons :p)

Mods should be joining in on the celebration instead, in particular unpaid / community ones like Reddi’s.

Could be wrong, or just more domain-specific, bu my experience is people don’t complain that the video is 15-30 minutes long, is that it’s a video (and that long) when the information could have been more succintly and practically displayed in a text tutorial or a blog format. Basically “this could have been an e-mail”.

Not to mention that way people avoid having to go to YT which is yet another cesspit community-wise.

You are right that people have shorter attention spans ofc, but then again when it comes to tackling it it’s largely an issue of medium: in the world of coding you can convey easily copyable or testable instructions in text format maybe with attachments, that can be verified in up to 60 seconds… or you could post a 30 minutes long video plus ads. Why would anyone expect the Fediverse, with the kind of people who are naturally attracted to it, to prefer the latter, no idea.

You don’t understand why or how platforms like these got made, don’t you?

If enough people came in to “put them in their place”, the way you describe, this place would basically become Threads (or Twitter) anyway.

This post is actually so stupid, they didn’t take shit from us, it’s still right there.

It’s not. it’s quite visibly not there.

USB-A/B is very outdated.

I take it you are offering to provide me with the adapters needed for all my USB-A devices, and my square-USB printers, for free? Because your mouth certainly runs well oiled.

USB-C can be used to deliver audio, video, ethernet connection, etc. You didn’t lose any functionality. Worst case scenario you’d need a hub for the card readers or a usb to usb-c adapter, or ethernet to usb-c.

Worst case scenario is if you have one sole USB-C connector and it breaks or is damaged. You’d lose all the eggs you had in one basket, whereas with separate adequate connectors you’d at least get to keep some workflow.

I think you mean a Ethernet to USB-C cable?

In any case, I already have the bad experience of Ethernet to USB-A cables not working, and not being able to know if they need some sort of driver. Not even on Linux, which is weird enough for me to temporarily give up on them and prefer built-in to bolt-in for something that’s so important.

To be fair, if I was going for a laptop I defo wouldn’t be doing this so-called “aaa” gaming. The good quality games are the oldies, the NES, SNES era, the CPS arcades. Those run well emulated on a decently-sized potato.

The PITA is that I use RJ45 pretty much every day. It’s not just a matter of “oh there’s wifi everywhere”; 99% of wifis everywhere are not open, or are actually not connected to the networks I’m working on, or I need the physical connector to diagnose wire / networking issues; and the performance of wifi on Linux on refurbrished machines tends to be subpar and they tend to not allow for “developer mode” options (playing with your MAC, WPA supplanting, etc).

If Tesla, the actual Tesla, had given us technology instead of the thief Elon Edison, then perhaps we’d somehow have point-to-point wireless RJ45 that would function everywhere, and I wouldn’t need the connector.

At least those are still here in my country, so yeah. Might be an option.