Could you imagine if people were this tall irl? At a third the height of a skyscraper, these would be more like gigantic robots walking around the city for some unknown reason!:-D
OpenStars
joined 10 months ago
I usually say Twitter/X, but Musk began the process of cancelling the Twitter part, and the part that will continue to get shittier is X :-P.
Like Disney did to Star Wars, he took people's community engagement and feelings of ownership, and... well he just took them. Things don't truly belong to us unless we keep them out of the hands of billionaires - like "our" media, now "their" media. It's a life lesson I suppose.
That may be as well. I was just recalling those PP loans during COVID, which later inspection of who got them was often nefarious.
Rich people learn how to game the system? I'm shocked!
While 99% of the news media at this point is clickbait, this one at least adds new information: "Enshittification... has been named 2023's Digital Word of the Year." The original article did not say that:-).
Also, yes there are ads, but also it's not blocked by a paywall so... checks and balances. Whereas X is basically just fully trash at this point, now that Musk has cancelled Twitter:-P.
The article ends with:
it is only going to get shittier
(in reference to a comment that Musk had said to advertisers to go ‘fuck themselves’, so meaning i.e. X, not necessarily overall, i.e. Fediverse)
Flint, MI would like to have a word with you...
Yes please!
But c'mon, obviously Eleberry, it's clearly the winner! :-)
Um... you really don't want to know!
That's why I left. And you too. The difference is, I give it precisely zero thought on a daily basis. Don't let him run your life even after you've gotten away from it. Forgive him even, if you can - not for his sake, but for yours - is what I guess I am trying to say. Also, the community has already somewhat shattered, as people are leaving it? Except I did not delete my account, I simply stopped using it (well, I did make one comment in all that time since), which illustrates how any metric based on user count may not measure the situation accurately (and ofc daily posts can always be complicated by bot accounts).
You could contribute to Lemmy perhaps, e.g. try to help get it to federate with Mastodon instances... or something. And as you said, you already are contributing to Mbin. Those kinds of positive changes (i.e., in the sense of moving forward, rather than looking back) are all that you can do, in the end.
Well, that's my two cents, fwiw:-).
That does sound reasonable, and I thought he gave in awhile ago i.e. at least added admins to the instance, which retains him as the sole "owner" but allows others to step in for the more day-to-day work, as you said. But at the end of the day, what he does is up to him.
And what you choose to do about it is on you - e.g. if you want to write to the nlnet foundation asking them to communicate with him and possibly withhold further funding unless certain conditions are met, that is your business.
My own business was to communicate what I did, and now it is up to you to listen to the advice offered, or not. That is the essence of freedom, so please feel free to not have to worry about something outside of your control - his actions - by focusing on what you alone can do, your own actions.:-)
Hrm, so literally eat the rich? Well, that's one (direct) way to combat inflation, I'm in!:-P