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Slashdot never died, it’s moderation just failed to function at scale and speed it needed to and got flooded with nazi bullshit daily for years, making it largely irrelevant but still active.
Also it’s a techdirt article, which was a Slashdot staple for a long time, so like a callback to that, perhaps.
Don’t tell conservatives, if they could read they would be very upset.
Oh everyone is fed up but we just elected a guy and government who is sure to make it all way way way worse.
He just helped put the nail in the coffin of the lie that crypto is for anything but scams, don’t worry, it’s gonna get real bad before it gets any better.
I mean honestly with all the impending environmental catastrophes and likely energy crisis I personally feel like the only viable compute future we actually have is low-power high-latency devices.
I’m glad I’m a command line junkie because there’s gonna be a future where I think that’s basically all that is left based on energy available and compute power.
The first time I took mushrooms it had been after reading about this kind of thing for about a week.
I recall reading about a man who was effectively blind but his eyes worked fine. What didn’t work fine was the part of his brain that interpreted what his eyes saw. So he just saw smeary streaks of light.
It’s kind of like Linux without its V4L2 system for interpreting video capture devices. It can’t actually see video without it.
Yeah Twin Pines Ma— I mean Lone Pine Mall.
I know we all want to hang out in a Marquette community, but isn’t midwest.social close enough?
Maybe something like this:
Oh they remember, they just:
Don’t care
Think modern technology means they can control it
A grue after my own heart! 100% exactly, and this is an issue I feel like most other people aren’t discussing!
Decentralization is moot if we’re using centralized pipes controlled by corporations and governments.
We need a return to community communications like the days of the barbed wire phone networks.
Kickass, that’s great to hear!
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon
https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin
Here are links to the githubs of Lemmy, Mastodon, and Mbin. These are good places to start getting involved. That’s where most of the development happens for each.
Good luck and thank you for wanting to be involved!
You know what the simple way is? Are you a designer? Yes? Then please get involved in the project and help the engineers design it.
It’s all Open Source. That means anyone can contribute, and if designers aren’t contributing, then the design will be done by engineers.
It takes volunteers and I’m so so so so tired of seeing people bitch about it but are unwilling to volunteer their time to make it better.
None of these people are being paid, all the work they do for you is for free for your benefit. They do not have Venture Capital backing them with millions of dollars like Bluesky owes Blockchain Capitol. $15 million to be exact. $15 million they’re going to want a return on which means monetizing users. (Something that won’t happen in an Open Source ecosystem)
“It’s not my job to contribute to a community project that I use daily” you may as well be saying “It’s not my job to make the world a better place.”
Enough folks are here for me. In fact, I’d argue that this is right about the right size, and that if we get that much bigger, it will become a mess like anything else.
I’ve spoken about it with some others, and we think that part of the problem with major sites like reddit is the scale itself.
That at a certain point, no amount of modding tools can save you from the flood of users doing things you have to moderate.
It’s why I think moderation needs to be a paid position (a la MetaFilter), and a site needs to have a max userbase tailored to how many mods they have available.
When you add more users, you’re actually exponentially increasing user interactions. Most of the time, you’re actually moderating interactions between users than actual individual users, so you must add moderators exponentially as your userbase grows because the potential connections between users are growing exponentially compared to the number of users.
Accessibility features make all our lives better, and I agree, it’s 100% an accessibility feature.
The internet is becoming balkanized.
Time to start building a parallel community-organized internet around it.
Oh wait we’ve already planted the seeds of that with what we’re doing here on the Fediverse. Carry on, carry on.
I prefer tap shift to run.
Toggle > Hold
Yep, that’s why Hillary was basically in control of the party via Debbie Wasserman-Shultz and how much the DNC effectively owed Clinton at that point.
People want to memory hole that aspect of it but it was 100% a response to the Obama presidency an attempt to grab a stranglehold on the party which she used to shut down Sanders and force her nomination. People often forget this is the same year the Republicans rejected Jeb Bush. America didn’t want Bush v. Clinton again, and Trump and Sanders were the only voices offering anything different. Democrats shut down their nascent progressive wing, and Trump just steamrolled the Republicans because he’s a fucking bully and those guys bend over and take it for bullies.
Don’t go in there, you don’t wanna end up like the Crack Fox!
Exactly, the presence of a weapon just gives them a reason to pull the “THEY’RE COMIN RIGHT FOR US” bullshit from South Park Season Fucking One.