Public library.
Vanth
joined 1 year ago
Not Ello!
Jk, I was the only person I knew with an Ello account. I know more people on lemmy and mastodon and fediverse stuff than I did on Ello. It didn't take much to predict it wouldn't work out.
Couples going through a rough patch can open-source their marriage.
Aw man, the six-figure salary alpha dude bros are still going to be the only ones getting girls because they're the only ones who can afford multiple subscriptions.
I was given one of those. I tried the app once and immediately uninstalled it. It's worthless. The "let's put AI in your computer mouse, toothbrush, and toilet scrubber!" of ten years ago.
13 ft Sunfish with Lateen rig. I'm thinking about swapping it to a Bermuda rig just to try it out.
marriage with chatbots
Subscription- based, I'm sure. We got a divorce because the $7.99 per month plan got jacked up to $12.99 and they started inserting ads!
My extremely progressive by American farmer standards uncle, who has driven a Prius for non-farm travel for over a decade, would probably stare at this article silently, turn, and walk out to the barn to continue working. Just about the harshest response that man ever gives.
"Post less" isn't going to help a platform that's still in early days that needs more active posters.
Best I can think of with a 30 second investment of time and thought is:
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when you post about your perspective/experience, post knowing it is only your perspective. You speak for no one else.
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when other people post with perspectives that differ from yours, default to believing them
(I also feel like these two cover not just blackness, but women and LGBT+ and even white men who don't have the same perspectives as the majority on this white-and-western platform)
Edit: In response to the four guidelines:
Listen more to more Black people
Sounds good but I don't see how this works in practice here. Anyone claiming to be black on an anonymous platform is 50/50 or more likely to be not black. Reddit had an entire "as a black man" sub making fun of people posing as black and the same problem will exist here.
Post less – and think before you post
See above, not what fediverse needs.
Call in, call out, and/or report anti-Blackness when you see it
For sure.
Support Black people and Black-led instances and projects
I have literally never seen an instance identified as black-led, so not sure who to be supporting. It also seems like it would have a similar problem to a topic that starts getting a bit niche. Like, a movie community will do fine, get more niche to a horror movie community and momentum dies out quickly. Horror aficionados are best off posting to the movie community and non-horror people can deal with the occasional post that doesn't inspire them.
Post something to the movie community about black actors and directors in the horror film industry, or about black characters, or about a horror story that is built on (or appropriated from) a black story, hell yeah, I'm in. Don't spin it off to a different community or instance because most will never see it.
Man, even pirating UFC fights is more effort than it's worth anymore. So much fluff. There's this guy who pirates it, then he edits it down to just the fights and posts it. He's the real champ.
Oh, agreed. And partially why I mentioned Boeing getting smeared in the news in my statement too. Pay means a lot but it's not everything. Good managers and work a person can be proud of goes a long way.
Space industry attracts a ton of passionate people who would stick around to do cool things for mediocre pay. But not if the pay gets too low and/or when the work is not something to be proud of.
E g., I've already got a mediocre paycheck, why accept a mediocre paycheck and the grief of a worsening reputation. Someone currently at Boeing for mediocre pay can find another mediocre job elsewhere but it will still be better because the new company isn't getting dragged in front of Congress for killing people to save money.
I interpreted it as you don't heat the pot while the frog is still in the pond. You only apply heat slowly once the front is already in the pot.
Don't load up the ads until the users are already on Threads. Wait until they are active on Threads, then crank up the ads when it's more difficult for the users to leave.