Feels like Reddit is closer to Mastodon than to Twitter. Each Mastodon server is like a subreddit with its own rules, moderation, user base, etc.
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I am interested in electronic music and followed several links from fedi.directory. E.g. https://mastodon.art/@merle, https://mastodon.cc/@Sevish, https://sonomu.club/@luka. Is that normal that there are no discussions? Also one of the links led to https://v.basspistol.org/a/setto/video-channels, which looks completely different, like a personal page from the 90s, not a Twitter-like app.
I thought Mastodon was a Twitter replacement, but was surprised by how uninviting and empty the entire recommended directory for electronic music is.
In your example HN would still need to retrieve and store billions of messages, handle user authentication, discovery, aggregation, additional data handling (e.g. you want to attach a video, or go live). They will need to monetize _something_. So we are back to square one, just with a much more inconvenient client setup process (like we do right now setting up pop3/smtp/imap).
When I asked OP to name someone, I did mean someone well-known. That makes sense in the context of a discussion of a famous philosopher. Maybe a childhood friend gave you a good advice 40 years ago - we won't be able to discuss the character of that person here.
What kind of a person one must be for you to value their life advice?
> Was he an abusive alcoholic or not?
He drank heavily at the end of his life. Was he an alcoholic? Maybe. Was he abusive? I haven't heard anyone call him abusive before this comment.
I don't even fully understand the scope of this concern. He became a heavy drinker in his late years, not a child murderer.
Watts was smart, insightful, highly versed in philosophy and religion. Does being an alcoholic or a smoker or <choose your transgression> negate that?
Edit: it’s really sad that you would summarize this complex man as an “abusive alcoholic”. He dedicated decades of his life to learning and sharing knowledge, inspired millions of people, certainly advanced Western philosophy. In his late years he drank heavily - 30-something years after publishing his first book. What an unforgiving hypocrisy! A man with such a complicated story, a difficult relationship with his dad, failed marriages, just human drama that _all_ people have or will experience in their lifetime… what right did he have to disappoint you so tremendously?
For those subscribed to the Waking Up app: they recently (well, around a year ago) added a large Alan Watts lecture collection to the Theory section.
How do you define far left in the US? People who advocate for the redistribution of income and wealth and for a brotherhood of all workers?
I agree that introducing paid accounts would make it harder for content farms to exist - primarily due to the fact that they would need a very large number of bank accounts and/or payment cards. However I don't think it's a real solution to this problem. Maybe as a part of some holistic anti-bot system? Yes, that could work.
- extreme intersectionality
- the original non-diluted Marxism-inspired version of CRT (e.g. punctuality and objectivism in academia are “white values”)
- literal dissolution of police (not just creating better social services)
and much more. So they are far left not in the classic sense. This term has been somewhat redefined in the context of culture war (similar to far right).
They just need his guidance and leads, PMs, design, engineers, … and, most importantly, users of these existing platforms will all align and populate this brave new super app.
So far I have not encountered a single big tech company that is able to factor in values into decision making at this level. I don’t know whether we even have the tools for that. The incentives (promos, bonuses), company size (internal competition, changing ownership, focus on growth), being public (relentless growth), etc, etc - all of that contributes to this outcome.
Personally I prefer a more thoughtful and caring approach to introducing changes, but knowing how the industry works I don’t see a lot of space for that.
The easiest way for me not to get consumed by trash is to proactively hide it. I leaned that I have low self control when it comes to data consumption, so I block everything I identify as dangerous.
There is just no way to endlessly improve a UI. At some point if you have 3K people work on it it will become a hot mess.
Personally, I hardly use YouTube unless I follow a direct link. I have also disabled all feeds, comments, and suggestions using uBlock Origin.
I don’t know a single person in my bubble who needs more lightning cables. I have a dozen unused lightning cables already laying around.
I threw away every pair of headphones that came with an iPhone I have ever bought. Most of mini/micro usb cables that come with small electronics go into trash - I do not need more cables!
> that should've become apparent to everyone with NFTs/crypto
Right, that's why FB, Meta and its metaverse are so highly regarded in the crypto community.
1. addictive enough that a very large chunk of humanity will visit it daily (ideally many times a day)
2. attractive to advertisers (I am including shopping in that)
In this context having fantastic software or a fantastic device is not a convincing argument. Facebook.com wasn't a fantastic piece of software when it blew up, hardware is mostly irrelevant (in the sense that it should be so good that it's basically unnoticeable to the user). The metaverse is not a coherent idea - it's a product of an obsessive mind with almost unlimited resources (for now at least).
This experiment has failed already. When early games with very primitive graphics were first released on home computers, they attracted a very dedicated following. People _wanted_ to play even primitive games. Same with many popular desktop applications and websites. Looking at something that is receiving overwhelmingly bad reviews from all target audiences and saying that we just need to invest $50B more does not make sense. The idea has to work at a smaller scale and has to experience organic growth for it to be viable and attractive to investors.
What do you mean by that? It's bad now because it's expensive? I think it's bad now because the tech is not ready (bulky, low resolution, low quality graphics, causes nausea, etc) and because Meta's value prop is incoherent. Team meetings in VR? Catching up with friends in VR? Having legs in VR? (How many people does this appeal to?) If it was 100x cheaper now do you think it would have been much more popular?
Really confusing policies by progressives who (probably) mean well.