whofearsthenight

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[–] whofearsthenight 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Bluesky just barely hit a million users is still invite only and is largely in a beta state, and though I'm not on it, everyone I know says it's a zombie platform and they'd rather be on Mastodon for nerd shit or Threads for normie shit. Threads has over 100m users already. The numbers alone make Bluesky not really worth mentioning, and effectively Threads killed it within the first day. Dorsey has also shown a track record of having no idea what he's doing. Probably half of the things people think about with Twitter come from the community. @mentions, rt, the term "tweet", etc. The twitter app was developed by a third party and bought.

As much as Zuckerberg sucks, Meta actually runs like a real company with adults at the helm. Dorsey's already fucking up bluesky not learning anything from his time at twitter and not making moderation a priority. Brands are already embracing Threads over Twitter and Bluesky because they don't want their ads showing up next to porn and nazis.

Oh, and as for GDPR, Meta has already stated they plan for a later launch, and again since it's a company of (sociopathic?) adults, they'll actually get it done, but it's already effectively over.

[–] whofearsthenight 7 points 1 year ago

I mean, yeah, but also he tweeted something like "send me x logos and we'll make that the brand tomorrow" so idk but I don't think there was a lot of thought going into this one.

[–] whofearsthenight 7 points 1 year ago

It's not even HDR. I'm a TNG fanboy, and one of the reasons is just because the show is bright. The ship sets are bright, etc. Even VOY and DS9 don't get this quality, and while SNW is probably the best, new Trek gets nowhere close.

[–] whofearsthenight 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I have zero faith that will happen. I don't think they anticipated how well threads would be adopted and that saying they'd federate was just a hedge.

[–] whofearsthenight 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you like, not a very good programmer? I know at least as many languages as listed here, have worked in many of them, and what I find in modern times is that a few weeks in a language is more than enough to do real work. Shit, like half of programming languages are just based on whether the creator of said language likes semi-colons or not.

[–] whofearsthenight 16 points 1 year ago

Yeah, this is the one that got me as well. If you write code for very long, you'll pickup a handful of languages. Modern languages (pretty much all of them in the screenshot) are something entirely different from writing anything near assembly. Even still, it's an uncommon combo.

So if those commenting learn like, 4 more languages including assembly and then turn into a total smokeshow, they can comment.

[–] whofearsthenight 0 points 1 year ago

Gun rights are human rights.

lol

[–] whofearsthenight 5 points 1 year ago

I commented this the other day, but we literally already do this in small ways, social security being the most obvious example.

And it's not as if society is going to stop functioning if we give people basic nutrition and four walls. Probably the opposite - our current system crushes people into poverty and keeps them there. I think people don't understand just how hard it is to be poor. Go work 8-14 hours a day doing one or more jobs, then come home and figure out how to feed your family when you can't afford convenience foods like... bread. Because $0.50 of flour and such vs $1.99 of sliced bread literally matters to you. And then you're supposed to figure out how to learn something else in your off time, which is the 6ish hours you also need to sleep.

If we gave everyone housing and UBI, would there be some people that absolutely did nothing else? Sure. Would there be others that finally have enough physical and mental capacity to do something amazing? Abso-fucking-lutely. See also, the story of the vast majority of wealthy people.

[–] whofearsthenight 6 points 2 years ago

He fired his PR handler in like '17 or '18. That person probably couldn't have ever been paid enough money, and this is probably a bigger mistake for him than spending 44 billies on twitter.

[–] whofearsthenight 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He crowdsourced the thing with like less than a day to review.

[–] whofearsthenight 16 points 2 years ago (5 children)

The reason is because Elon went through a manic minute at like 3am the other day and thinks the letter x is cool. Were we applying anything rational to this they wouldn't have rebranded as the twitter brand is about the only thing they have left going for the service.

[–] whofearsthenight 11 points 2 years ago (12 children)

They're not going to go to mastodon, but there have already been a pretty big exodus to Threads. I have a feeling that's going to be the thing - twitter is going to die slowly mostly in favor of Threads, meanwhile Mastodon and the fediverse will probably continue being a minor player for a while.

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