SirNuke

Keep working on those evil KPIs*, you’ll get there.

*Not to be confused with regular KPIs, which are not required to be evil just usually are.

Not really, but it’s consistent with my beliefs in life before and during work as well.

What’s the DEAL with WIVES anyway

It was never properly contained in the first place.

FYI the scene this is from. If you “so bad it’s good” media I highly recommend Danger 5. It’s one of the very few things to initially try that and pull it off.

You might know it from this gif.

I kinda hate to be like this, but if you are in a tech position, past the early entry level nonsense, and not making six figures (in the US) then you need to be job hunting.

I don’t know if any particular certification will get you there, but IT remains a great practical field to be in. Don’t make any sort of “I’m just in this for the money” apologies.

I don’t have a medical background, but my suspicion is the process of formulating a thought, deciding what meaning you want to convey, and then settling on what words accomplish that is far more complicated and delicate than we give it credit for. I suspect any sort of issue can wreck the whole process, which might explain why really good communicators are so rare.

For myself, ADHD medication really helps slow my brain down and thinking things through before opening my mouth. Turns out that’s an important part in (properly) verbalizing thoughts.

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Just a heated gamer babbling moment.

I agree with your point. Metaface is the most hilariously transparently bad actor on the internet. That well is so poisoned there’s no olive branches that will save their reputation. The incentives for these companies are clear and produce a consistent pattern: build something useful and start building walls around it so you can exploit whatever you’ve built to produce the most shareholder returns. Any instance that cooperates with a Bookmeta instance is willfully ignorant how it will end, even if MaceTook truly does not have malicious plans at the start.

But beyond the other responses, I think it’s worth thinking deeper on this. It’s easy to reduce it to “It’s simple. We kill the Zuckerberg.”

There have always been bad actors, and will always be bad actors. There are probably bad actors in the room with us right now. If this whole threadiverse experiment is going to survive, it needs to be able robustly handle them even when the bad actors can bring a lot of resources to bear.

Also the real fun happens when TheMeta.Com starts proposing changes to ActivityPub. Even if the changes are purely technical and make perfect sense there’s going to be slapfights.

Instability now because software issues/immaturity, but chaos long term because instances get to decide how to do things. Is any of this going to work? If you like chaos in your internet browsing website interaction experience you’ve found the right place.

There’s an idea of “building a plane as we’re flying it.” Creating something where you inherently do not know what it’ll look like or even if it’ll work. The only thing that everyone agrees on is hitting the ground is bad.

The Fediverse is like a squadron of incomplete planes flying together. Each plane has webcams for users in other planes, if they want them. Sometimes planes will veer off and form their own squadron. Sometimes long lost planes will fly back and rejoin. Each plane has people simply enjoying the ride, and others trying to figure out what they’ve build and what’s next and whether the ground is getting bigger in the window. Sometimes anger at the pilots boils over into people grabbing parachutes and jumping off. Some go to other planes, some try to build their own plane where they can put their ideas for how to fly into practice.

We don’t have established theories how to administrate sites, which I believe is because we don’t really know how to grant and check power IRL. Experience is clear moderating/administrating internet sites requires a lot of leeway, but that leeway will eventually trend towards abuse. Modern platforms are good at suppressing user revolts, which has lead to a lot of stagnation on the internet.

Instead each Fediverse instance gets to decide for themselves how to run things; including what other instances to interact with and on what terms. Users in turn get to decide what instances work best for them. An instance that believes downvotes are harmful can ignore them. An instance that believes downvotes are important can give them extra weight. Which one makes more sense? Let’s find out!

This leads to my Grand Unified Theory of Good and Deep Link Aggregation and Discussion (GUTGooDLAD): this is about finding your Cool Kids and hanging out with them. You’ll know when you are accepted as a Cool Kid, but it’ll be the communities with the spiciest shitposts, cutest cat pictures, and of course the most interesting links and comments.

So go forth and find your Cool Kids, cool kid. And if you can’t find them, build the communities where your Cool Kids will find you.