miguel

joined 3 weeks ago
[–] miguel@fedia.io 7 points 3 days ago

What "kickstart"? The fediverse isn't a commercial venture. If we can connect with our friends and interests, it's already "working". I find fantastic new people here all the time, doing really niche stuff I'd never find on a platform focused on appealing to everyone.

If "99%" of people aren't on it, that's perfectly acceptable, and just makes it easier for the ones on it to find and talk to their friends. I don't think we need or want the vast torrent of spammers, downvote bots, and "influencer" types who use whatever gives them clicks.

[–] miguel@fedia.io 11 points 3 days ago (6 children)

I was told something like this about an article I was pointing out wasn't on page 1 of google, but was on virtually all other engines. "Unless it's page 1 of google nobody cares"

And all I can say is "who cares? those aren't the people it's for"

[–] miguel@fedia.io 27 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This feels like clickbait - I find it hard to believe the writers of this piece are unaware of the protests. The better question, perhaps, is "why does media refuse to cover the protests", and the answer to that is obvious - the media (damn near all of it) is controlled by the very oliarchs we're protesting.

[–] miguel@fedia.io 3 points 3 days ago

Considering it's shipped by default on the fedi, on ghost, discourse, bsky and loads of other very hot upcoming and established tools, it's very much alive. Just because xitter and facebook and google failed to find a way to monetize it and therefore tried to kill it doesn't make it dead.

[–] miguel@fedia.io 37 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'm a huge fan of RSS, it's how I get 90% of my media now.

[–] miguel@fedia.io 45 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Can't think of any times when "undesireables" have been sent to prisons/gulags in other countries. Nope. Nothing springs to mind...

[–] miguel@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

I think even UK common law has something to say about that, some kind of Magna Carta? We regressed right back to pre-constitutional monarchy, do not pass go.

[–] miguel@fedia.io 51 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Dude literally pointed to his friends who made a killing on it, and posted "buy" info on his socials before reversing.

If we had any kind of system of laws, that'd be jail time.

[–] miguel@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago

Fingers crossed, right?

[–] miguel@fedia.io 3 points 1 week ago

That's a good suggestion, and I will look

[–] miguel@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I feel that. I'm currently using a laptop from like 2017 (with a 1050) and honestly... if it dies, I'm pretty well hosed.

[–] miguel@fedia.io 13 points 1 week ago

See, that's real prep, not buying 2,000 cans of beans and 20k in ammo :D

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