Peak comedy, OP. :)

That news really rustles my Jimmies though. I really hate the stonk market but I got a couple shares of Intel thinking it would at least start to recover eventually.

I dunno this kinda cracks me up a little because like…if you dig deep enough, were people flame-warring on usenet or BBS (wait lemme finish! Lol) over:

“Email needs way better UX and an insta-one-click-sign-up zero-thinking on-ramp so even a single-celled organism can figure it out!”?

That’s the easiest descriptor nowadays that explains the Fediverse. Email. “What if Twitter but as a generalized service that anybody could run, like email. Yahoo? Gmail? RobertLovesSurfing.net? They can all email each other but your account lives on one.”

A better way of seeking out an instance could be handy perhaps. I found Mastodon pretty smooth with “Hey you might like these if…!” Sort of suggestions. The openness of the platform should make this a much easier task than it might be otherwise, I think.

I also think better explaining the portability of your account data would help people see the benefit there.

I’d like more kinds of nerds to have an easier time getting on the Fediverse with us, so let’s improve that, but I also think we’re less popular BECAUSE the Fediverse is more about human communication much like “The Old Internet”, and less about desperate vapid fame-seeking and self-marketing and identity-as-brand, like Web2/3.0.

A lot of me thinks we’re here because corpo-net “disrupted” our forums and blogs away.

IMHO, the commercial-verse can keep its skibidis and hauk-tuas and *“Oh suddenly I’m famous! thanks for the gold kind stranger!”*s

I don’t think it’s cruel elitist “gatekeeping” to say the Fediverse is for anybody! But maybe not for Everybody. (Imagine if major brands discovered everybody moved to the Fediverse, for instance. Yikes.)

BTW it’s 2025 and plenty of people I’ve observed, here in the U.S, still complain that email is “too complicated.” (And no, they weren’t formerly from an uncontacted tribe or rescued from a sealed 1950’s fallout shelter.)

We could make things a bit easier to understand and smoother to experience, but trying to UX-away the requirement for a modicum of intelligence required is not a great end goal, I think.

It could be that sorta thing, but I think it was the same aim as the “salt typhoon” attack on U.S telecomms corpos.

A majority of the vulnerabilities and data dumps are, yes, worthless, but somewhere there’s dumb U.S officials or people with clearances doom-scrolling TikTok , and their data or meta-data is giving valuable insight into how they can be manipulated, blackmailed, who they’re connected to, whatever.

That’s some good humor LMAO.

RedNote wasn’t coughing up all the ad money and buying off influencers to screech “I’m going to RedNote, all hail glorious PoohBear!” at the time I guess lol.

PLA soldier

It’s early, so here I am laughing picturing some kid LARPing in a bunch of 3D printed gear. . .which would warp in the sun on the walk to your door, which in turn explains why you spot his mom’s the people’s leased German EV sedan sitting at the end of your driveway.

giving anyone instant access to any amount of exactly what they want most is dangerous (Edit: likely irresponsible, potentially dangerous, like designing escapist drugs

Oh wow, how you so perfectly, succinctly described all the empty promises of Ai hype in one elegant line. 😬

We also have to consider moderation. If suddenly everyone just jumped to the fediverse all at once…hoo boi let’s just say I bet the FBI would have quite a field day.

But then again there’s PeerTube instances that seem to be doing pretty well so…I dunno…?

Exactly. I think a lot of people just go to whatever is blasted into their eyeballs often enough without a second thought as to the source. I bet with the TikTok news, RedNote probably started paying a bunch of influencers to astroturf and bought a bunch of ad space.

I doubt so many people would be buying nonsense on Temu if it wasn’t buying up every. Single. Unblocked. Ad space. Across everything.

People would be like “WTF is a Temu? I’m not into pokemon. Oh I see. It looks sketchy.”

Ha! Similar story, but Capoeira here. We’re all in formation and called to do “armada”, some arts might call it a “spinning back crescent”.

I whipped around and threw that leg and spun so hard that I caught just enough air to take my anchored foot out from under me and land on my butt. Oooow. Lol

I imagine some funny cartoonish “woopidy woop!” sounds would’ve completed the moment. XD

Legit wondering if this is the “Dead Internet” in action and we’re seeing bots just spout human-sounding reddit-like banter at each other. O.o