https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masse_(Elektronik)

mass in german literally refers to ground

that feels so massive 😳

It’s like graffiti on the wall of buildings, that keeps the rent down.

“fuck” on the internet keeps the advertisers away.

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you are a wizard, harry

The motivation for federated logins would be that often you’re linked to a post on another instance, such as https://someinstance.net/post/12345 now when i click on that, in the web browser it opens on the other instance, and now what if i want to comment?

1. “Maybe if I click login it will somehow do federated login?” Nope.
2. Ok what if I copy the /post/<id> from the URL and paste it in my instance. Nope 404.

Yeah, these two are major pain points. They are unintuitive, i would argue. If you click “login”, it should ask you for your username. If your username is lisa@bumblebee.com, it takes you to bumblebee.com and lets you finish the login process there.

The /post/<id> should have been fixed a while ago. I don’t know why it wasn’t.

It’s good that you know better what’s good for the people than the people themselves.

yes i know, i was well aware of that when posting it.

It’s really about what’s more important to you and where you set your priorities. Or maybe it’s actually about being short-sighted or far-sighted.

The US seems to believe that having “rich” people and a poor-rich divide will somehow foster or speed up technological development. I would say that is an almost religious belief. I don’t really agree with it too much personally, and also i don’t like how they approach their population as “wave slaves” who are threatened with starvation and homelessness if they don’t work; but also i’m not gonna interfere with US internal affairs.

I really do think that all the “corporation” things are short-sighted, and it is wise to take the “long-run” perspective and ask what will be in a 1000 years, in a billion years.

I do think that being a bully like the US is is short-sighted, an in fact disadvantageous in the long run, because it makes people distrust them, and that’s a thing that puts you in a disadvantageous position in general.

how else is the content creator gonna fit 3x 5-30seconds ads in there?

call me trap happy if the trap is somecuties bedroom :3

yus pls :o

A lot of people really have difficulty with maths and programming.

The way i imagine it, programming is something non-real, something metaphysical, or how you want to call it. And a lot of people even plainly reject that such a thing meaningfully exists. Think about how many people reject the existence of “spirits”, “demons”, or “god”, based on nothing else but the argument that it is not tangible. Something similar is going on with maths and programming.

yeah i got 8 of them in the last 2 days …

and now I’m imagining being required to take an exam to join a subreddit. Stupid idea but it would probably restore that sort of tone.

I think it’s because some people are naturally calm and considerate, instead of seeking rage-bait.

I think this isn’t learned behavior, or something you can change through education/exams. This is just how some people are. I guess it has something to do with being intellectual/Taoist/gnostic, whatever you call it. I think this is just because a lot of people here are technically inclined, have AuDHD, or something similar.

Apart from that, i guess lots of ragebait, advertisement, and “preferring user numbers over quality content” is why reddit (and many other platforms) are taking this course. Let’s make sure that the Fediverse stays a place that is ad-free, and turn rage-bait to a minimum.

I think, maybe we could meaningfully rebrand Lemmy to Feddit? And change the direction accordingly (away from politics/tankie views, and towards general-purpose, meme content)? Maybe that would be a solid and sound approach to social media.

If we want to attract more users, then like Bluesky, we need to do better at meeting the desires that users actually have, rather than like Mastodon simply complain why nobody wants to come here. PieFed, Mbin, and Sublinks are attempting to do that, so there’s hope, but we are still a long ways away yet.

I disagree.

It is more important to stay true to yourself, than open the gates to the flooding of new content. That is the only way to satisfy existing users and avoid that the platform loses it’s “core” or soul in the long term. It might be unpopular, but if you prefer the PieFed or Mbin approach, you know, you can always just go there? What’s stopping you? Everybody should try to find the platform that’s best for their personal approach to things, i think.

About adding new instances to handle the load:

There’s four possible legal structures that could be behind a messaging service:

• political domain (state, city, …)
• corporate entity (typically for-profit)
• clubs (typically non-profit)
• individual humans

I think it fits the spirit of the Fediverse best to consider the lower two options. A club is a free get-together of humans for some purpose, such as sports club, literature club, you could have a Fediverse club. I highly support this approach, because it is non-profit-oriented, lives off donations, and is rooted by responsible individuals who do something good for the community. Also, individual humans can host smaller instances, but as the instances grow in size, having multiple people behind it to back it up could make things more stable over time.