FlexibleToast

I somehow agree with both of you. It’s okay to do good things to feel good, but it’s also not good to glamorize chasing clout.

I somehow agree with both of you. It’s okay to do good things to feel good, but it’s also not good to glamorize chasing clout.

I’m pretty sure I accidentally double posted and tried to delete one of the comments. But now it looks like everyone replied to the deleted comment? Weird… Anyway, yeah that’s why I said I kind of agree with both. The problem with a “generation of clout chasers” are that most of them aren’t doing it by giving their money away. Clout is the reason things like the Kia Boyz challenge to steal Kias and Hyundais exist. That’s why I think it’s a teachable moment to point out that Mr Beast is good because of the good things he does and not because he’s doing it for the fame. Like just about everything in life there is pros and cons.

It really is like the old days of Reddit. We’ll really find out what Lemmy becomes if/when it hits its Eternal September.

I think Bluesky has real potential to become mainstream.

So after they build good will in the community and get a large userbase on their platform you think they will then pull the rug right out from under their own feet? Why would they cripple AP if their app is running on it?

Not much different than torrents. With torrents you’ll need a VPN to connect through, with usenet you need a news server to connect to. Torrents need a client, so do nzbs. You have to go to an indexer to search for torrents, same thing with nzbs. Really the biggest difference is you connect to a dedicated, paid for server instead of a connection of peers.

The problem with trying to break it up is that the FTC already allowed the mergers that let them get so big. They approved the purchases of Whatsapp and Instagram. Thankfully the new chair of the FTC seems to understand letting companies get this big is not good and is trying to block these things from happening in the future.

I won’t judge you until you should know better.

Just about the entire ruling class who refuse to give up power and retire.