Yeah it’s hijacked so many of our old (admittedly tenuous) trust systems.

The worst being that a piece of detailed “content” is evidence that a human being cared enough about something to put effort into making it.

I definitely de-emphasize it, but eventually the slop is going to sink down to the lower layers of the internet

I don’t even mind people summarizing into they’ve found elsewhere, but like you said it’s the most basic information—it’s the opposite of summarizing, it’s whipping up this lexical froth of bullshit filler around a tiny kernel of a factoid.

Meandering nonsense exactly. Just plausible enough for you to keep reading, and probably impressive to someone who doesn’t know the domain, but as soon as you try to logically put together what you’ve read it falls apart.

Ah but you don’t crave xternal validation to such an extent that could never ever be satisfied

I have a $5/mo VPS that use as my main remote these days. No complaints

Damm we got slammed

Well now I wish it was Friday afternoon

The analogy I keep going back to is that of the shopping centre / mall. While it makes sense to go there for commerce and some light socializing, isn’t it sad if malls were the only places you socialized?

Luckily, other places exist! Both irl, to real malls, and online, to commercial platforms.

Just getting people to wake up to the fact that they’re choosing to stay on a corporate run platform is huge imho

Yeah like I want to tell people how easy it is, and how much better things are here, but I sure as shit am not going to make an X or Bluebird account to do it. So at most I just yack about it to other nerds on my lunch break

Is it just because we stop using the commercial platforms when we switch to fedi? I assumed most people were dual users though

I don’t think they realize how easy it is to just walk away.

I was stuck on that treadmill for years before I realized

Yeah of the people in techI’ve spoken to about the fediverse, even the ones that did know only had a surface level understanding, and didn’t seem to consider it something that was for them for whatever reason.

And that’s the story of why you and I get a weekend.

Many of them are petite bourgeoisie sure, but I don’t think you realize how hungry so many people in tech are to work on something real and good.

Was good while it lasted. Thanks for getting me off LastPass. See ya

Me too!

I’ve worked on a cloded codebase. It’s not… uh, good.

😮‍💨

Not monthly with Bandcamp, sadly.

I suppose they could make a mandatory minimum if they needed to. It’ll be interesting to see the numbers from this “donation” model first though. From the sounds of it the amount of paid staff sounds pretty minimal.

Been snagging some albums and I really like how the platform cut is optional.