That actually never crossed my mind, I'm pretty sure they just see a floating skykid that forgot gravity existed :P
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Maybe the real party was the party of friends we made along the way?๐
Well, that makes two of us :/ Though I swear skykids arrive the moment I setup the disco ball....
However, for those curious enough, there is another way to always carry a portable disco that everyone can see๐๐บ
I think his heart's in the right place. I don't think a tech-centered host should have any reservations or prejudices about trying out new stuff, but he's also someone that covers 20+ tech stories each week. I don't blame him for thinking the fediverse is just another R1 Rabbit. Nevertheless, he's surely not oblivious to how he came across in this podcast and might be more open next time. Just in case, here's the perfect 1-minute intro: What is the Fediverse?
Jakob, on the other hand, is a real Lemmineer. Or....Lemming.....Lemur? Whatever ๐ค
The solution: Something something, be the change you want to see in the world.
Personally, I think it doesn't matter if he joins the fediverse now or in 10 years or ever. It doesn't matter if the fediverse grows, dies or stays like this. He has the choice, now, to be part of a better internet, regardless of whether it will completely change the internet landscape as we know it or not. There's always going to be moments where a decision has no material benefit over the other and can sometimes even be more inconvenient. The only reason is: "That's what I believe in". What happens in the future is out of his control. He can simply pick his side.
This way, regardless of whether the culture on these closed-off platforms forever stays on there, he knows that his contributions to culture, may that be an upvote, a comment (yay!), a podcast or a post, is a contribution to all and therefore truly becomes part of culture.
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No but seriously, such an interesting episode.
On one end there's Riley, wanting to turn back the clock to an age where there were forums and communities freely searchable on the internet, and lamenting centralization.
- "I don't want to do that [joining the fediverse]. I really just want the internet to be fixed".
On the other end there's Jakob, making a case that the clock can't simply be rewinded back, and that the solution for a modern internet without centralization is....a modern internet without centralization.
- "You're like: 'Hm, my issue is all of these different places are closing off themselves and there's all this information and stuff on the internet that's becoming centralized, gated' - decentralization is what the fediverse is!"
As for Riley's point about "If I join the fediverse, and no-one's there, I'm cutting myself off from culture": This is exactly why these platforms are closing themselves off. They're seeing that even if people want something different (and Riley has expressed this desire throughout the entire podcast), the fear of not being able to keep our things can be a strong incentive to never improve one's situation. And there's no better proof than his own statement. It works.
Damn....even without the screenshot that still sounds pretty convincing and this seems to be solved, thanks for the follow-up and the "research"!
After your initial post I got curious and did an informal experiment as well: I joined the tournament with three old accounts of mine. The first one got assigned to the blue team, the second to yellow and the third to green. So, if the sorting is unbalanced, then atleast it isn't blatantly unbalanced. Sample size: 3 accounts๐
Well, your theory isn't at all hard to believe, so the bar isn't that high ๐
Straight through my heart๐
But true, black would be a much better fit for the fifth team! Now that I think of it, it was weird from the start that forest got the colour blue....
Anyways, one thing's for sure, for the rest of the tournament you won't see me blink during the results screen๐๏ธ๐๐๏ธ
Conspiracy theorists unite!
I gotta say, I do have some difficulties believing this conspiracy though, and this is coming from someone that believes the true intent behind Sky is to create the perfect money-making scheme that exploits the ultimate human addiction: friendships.๐ฝ
For example: If they planned for a 5th team, why was the cape a different shade of blue instead of let's say purple (Isle of Dawn, LTP area/vault)? Knowing that this is their first competitive event, why would they not reassign the "purple" team members to each team equally, knowing full well that a team comprised of two team is so obviously unbalanced? We need a motive!
On the other hand, it is really weird that the blue team is winning by a lot, considering that the player doesn't have much impact on its own and the teams are assigned at random....๐ฝ
Scarf cape๐๐๐งฃ
A bit late, but 100% yes. It's the Beckoning Ruler with the frog mask :P
Three things I'd try:
P.s. I think you should input an encryption master password only after having done a full sync on the device and then entering it in the orange prompt that appears. So your problem might stem from a badly configured E2EE. In that case, if the things above don't work, I'd suggest turning off E2EE, synching all your notes to your devices and then turning it back on. Hang in there!
Edit: Three things :)