I never aligned it to being a common thing in western cultures. That's pretty insightful. Oddly though, recently I have been romanticizing the notion of living for a year in my parent's home country, hearing anecdotally, watching videos of content creators from there, how the culture/people in that part of the word is more familial.
Yeah, the biggest challenge lately was understanding if the friendships were for an other's "convenience." It's also hard to communicate with friends, if not tech focused, how much mental energy it takes do some tasks or implement something. So it's hard to communicate clearly that I can't do certain things or go to certain events, because my focus will be affected and in turn my quality of work. It always comes out as being a scapegoat and/or probably "bad at their job".
Not linux, but an interesting mobile solution. Can probably port the android version to linux https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps. Found another for desktop/linux, but no routing features: https://github.com/heldersepu/GMapCatcher
Yeah, a future where things are less online or hybrid models are my interest too. I have an insecurity about change for simple things such as maps for instance. Having an offline variant just helps in making sure my day is consistent if there's no time to try new things/updates that changes the whole UX im used too.
I just thinking about HackerNews the other day. Merging that community to tech focused communities/instances would be great. I have felt they have done a good job in moderating content/internet points over the years as well.
As the internet becomes more available, mass adoption leads to communities that are very unbalanced. And, more often than not, leaning towards personas we tend to avoid in real life. Reason being, the barrier to entry is not as high. Curiosity is a byproduct of education/environment and lead people to apply resourcefulness to uncover sites/forums/messageboards with like minded people. Yes, echochambers in a way, but these echo chambers were not driven by political beliefs, but rather simple mannerisms and etiquette. Toxicity on sites like Youtube, Reddit, Threads, Twitter, have increased, because Curiosity didn't drive discovery/account creation, ads or fomo did instead. Mastodon/Lemmy (Fediverse) communities, in my opinion, are still driven by curiosity. For how long, is the question I'd like to impose.
True, unless they may want to structure the data they'd prefer to collect maybe? If they become a primary force in this market could they impose their own "standards"? Where other instance admins would enforce locally, just to conform and grow/monetize?
EEE, Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Meta may very well be embracing federation concepts to eventually return back to their former selves.
Curious, if EU based instances allow interoperability with Threads. Would this be a way for Meta to gather data on EU based users without GDPR compliance, even if Threads itself is not available in the EU?
I agree to an extent. I feel discussions have lost depth online. Since most of the time online users don't have the same caliber as one may be more used to in the 2010 and prior era of the internet. I feel, on sites like Reddit, i leave discussions feeling more confused and/or exhausted rather than enlightened.
Yeah, it truly feels a new chapter has started in my life. And I really like it, because it's for the first time I am feeling that I am shaping my personality on my own, while taking in advice from others/literature and not just wearing masks constantly (But, hard to tell if I am going about it correctly). I will check that book out!