rainbowmverse

mastodon.rocks is the saddest story. They had no backups, and lost the database upgrading to the version that would have let its thousands of users back up their own accounts.

Both Mastodon instances I use are run by people working in tech and have limited registration. I doubt it's a huge burden, but I'd help spread a Patreon/Liberapay if they started one.

I doubt this very much. Google has proven that success at dominating and monetizing one thing doesn't translate easily to dominating and monetizing another thing.

Both are ad companies. Google got lucky with buying YouTube and Android on search ad money. They haven't been able to translate that success into anything else.

Facebook probably got lucky with WhatsApp and Instagram. Only time will tell if they can do it again once those two start to collapse.

What do you base this on? I know plenty of people working multiple jobs and saving every dollar they can who still barely get by.

>> "The American study found that key chemicals in the oils boost oestrogen and inhibit testosterone."

I find this highly suspect. If the effect were significant, every trans woman I know would be talking about their essential oils instead of salt cravings and estrogen pills/injections.

Is there something to this, or is it another case of shoddy science reporting?

I'm kind of done with new silos. Mastodon showed me another way could work. Will this support ActivityPub and/or OStatus?

There are ways to spend money other than real estate, drugs, and sex workers.

This Digg has almost nothing to do with the original. All this Digg did was buy the name and build a competent news portal around it.

Focal points are one of those things I didn't even know I was missing.

Arguing with a robot over spelling seems like it would be more distracting than hitting a button.

This is the first I've heard of Juno as something other than a dial-up ISP.

All the noise is just details. The chart is basically three parts:

1: Blue is all the pressures and temperatures where water is solid.

2: Green is all the pressures and temperatures where water is liquid.

3: Yellowish red is all the pressures and temperatures where water is vapour.

I'm not sure what to make of the points and little lines. They seem to have something to do with the ranges within those ranges where the different kinds of ice occur.

So I'm not the only one with that problem! All Spotify recommends to me these days are covers, most of them video game style themes. I like chiptunes and Minecraft parodies as much as anyone, but not to the exclusion of all else. I don't know what they changed to cause this, but I haven't opened Spotify in a month.

Now I open Bandcamp first when I want music.

This is an example of a political comment that could be okay with some extra care.

Here's where your comment goes off the rails:

>> "Trump Derangement Syndrome is real."

You've condensed an entire article into a single catchphrase that signals a certain political lean and causes people to circle the wagons around their strongly held views. It would likely lead to a huge, boring demon thread (https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/BZtAavpsy9WtMYgEL/demon-th...) without someone commenting on it in as civil a way as possible.

The article could do without the swipe. Your comment could do without the slogan.

It's humbling and exciting at the same time. You realize how much there is to know and how little you know. The big realization for me was that you can just decide "this is who I want to be," follow it while ignoring other possibilities, then try something else.

You can opt out of the chaos of possibility and see how far you can go with one path before hopping on another rocket. You can't do all the things, but there is enough time to give full attention to one thing for a while and have time left for quite a few more things. Some people even manage a few things at the same time! I use a software synthesizer made by someone who is somehow a math whiz, programmer, and musician all at once.

I'm not assuming that.

I thought changing this was the whole point of the gigafactories.

Comcast still charges too much, but since Google Fiber they stopped sending out techs who barely know more than the troubleshooting checklist they use when you call.

Still going strong almost a year later.

The fact that its timeline is mainly showing toots from Mastodon and other AP/GNUSocial instances tells me this fancy blockchain moderation is not as robust as they think.

Good overview: https://medium.com/we-distribute/hiveway-io-shamelessly-rips...

Treadmill desks.

Why does a life insurance salesperson need to be fit and able-bodied?

That's what Patreon discovered recently. They thought it was a tool for already well-established creators to monetize their fanbases. What people actually used it for--aside from the top few in each category--was to make a few extra dollars and give themselves enough breathing room to climb closer to some kind of financial stability.

>> The entire concept of social media is toxic. And all to show you more ads.

Social media funded by venture capital, maybe. Most Mastodon instances big enough to need outside funding run on a few Patreon or Liberapay contributions. The main one gets enough for the developer to work on it full time.

Social media doesn't have to be the way Facebook and Twitter convinced people it has to be.

It's more like an ad masquerading as an article. Self-promotion is good and more people should do it, but out in the open.

This is awfully thin. It ended right as it got started.

There's a reason "correlation does not equal causation" is such a popular heuristic.

>> Disclaimer: I am not American.

This explains it. You probably live somewhere with a reasonable social safety net. Our government safety net is full of holes, and religious people build webs to catch people who fall through.

Not all of them are bad. Some of them will just help people and not make it conditional on joining their religion. In my experience and from accounts by other LGBTQ+ people, these are the outliers.

I doubt they meant to imply previous leaders were unstable. Stability is good for investment, and the current government is stable. A new leader could be any of the kinds of leader that make investors look elsewhere.