The US is a walking cautionary tale. I really hope the rest of us learn from it in time to forcefully reject this shit before it hits the fan here as well.
aasatru
joined 10 months ago
Everything boils down to preferences, but Lemmy defaults is not necessarily keeping up with the trends. Small thumbnails were more useful back when internet traffic was slow and/or expensive, today it's more of an acquired taste.
I wish different instances dared to have more different defaults, so that one instance would look significantly different from another beyond just colour scheme. I still haven't seen a single instance run something like Alexandrite or Photon by default, and while I guess there are good reasons for that I think it would have been a welcome addition.
In the case of Mastodon, I think an even bigger problem might have to do with age. Whenever I see an age poll on Mastodon it seems most of the user base there is older than the internet itself. It's hardly surprising that they are not very up to date on pop culture. That it's largely white and male of course adds to the problem.
It's fascinating that when a social media is created without algorithmic boosting of content, pop culture suffers.
I guess it's the kind of content we are very happy to consume, but we don't care much about spreading. Had I seen a video of Lamar from the Superbowl boosted by one of the people I follow on Mastodon I would probably have watched it, but I wouldn't have boosted it. I imagine some people would leave comments if they saw it, but that doesn't affect visibility in Mastodon. The entertainment industry is geared towards a passive spreading of content, and that's not what is happening on the Fediverse.
That might be a problem, it might be a good thing. But it's at least not very surprising that the Fediverse looks very different during the super bowl.
Lemmy devs tend not to be very proactive when implementing interoperability with other fediverse services. I would expect support to pop up in Mbin and/or PieFed first, and possibly Lemmy later.
That said, I would be surprised if they were not aware of the possibility, I just doubt it's a priority at the moment.
No doubt they're taking their sweet time with it. Then again, knowing the Mastodon user base, whenever it is implemented people will probably go crazy and think it's the biggest invasion of privacy since the gestapo.
By the way, here's from Monday's development update:
The team also made significant progress on the specification for Quote Posts. It needs a few minor changes, but we expect to publish it for comment in February, and start implementation right away. The current plan is to publish Mastodon 4.4 with support for displaying Quote Posts, and then add authoring in Mastodon 4.5.
Mastodon users can post to the Threadiverse by tagging a community, but since we don't have "quoted boosts"/quote posts, there's no way of including an existing thread or post when doing so.
For sure! But considering Mastodon has most of the content that would be quote posted this way and most of the users who would be subject to it, and they are working on it (at their own pace), I think it would be tactile to see how it is implemented in Mastodon first and then proceed from that.
It could for example be that Mastodon users will be able to opt out of quote posts in general or in specific posts. If so, this should be respected in other implementations as well. And in general, it's just nice to have things consistent, and when it's taking the Mastodon team so long to implement I suspect it's because they're devoted to making sure they do it right. :)
Hopefully whenever mastodon gets quote posts we'll see something similar pop up over here.
How trained are US military in the notion of unlawful orders?
If this is serious, you consider these people friends, and you honestly don't see the problem with your communication here, you have two options when you receive a text message:
Leaving voice messages is a potential third option, if you're capable of expressing yourself like that.
It seems people are interested in talking to you, but you are clearly not cut for written communication. With responses like this they might not be interested in talking to you in person after either.
If you don't feel like talking due to depression, consider telling them about this. Probably in person. Like "Hey, I'm a bit depressed, so when we meet up and hang out it takes a lot of effort from me and the stars pretty much need to align. I'm super happy to do it, but I can't always gather the strength to. So when I'm pretty shit at texting it's because I struggle to gather that kind of energy out of nowhere. It's nothing personal."