Oh wow, that’s refreshing haha. Hope it can stay that way.

But how do you know the “algorithm free timeline” is algorithm free? Are they just in chronological order, only shows you direct follows, and never leaves anything out?

As someone who doesn’t know the first thing about bsky, IMO as long as they’re centralized and closed source, it’s not possible to call their algorithm opt-in, nor configurable. You simply can’t know how they’ve arrived at the content they are (or more importantly, are not) serving you.

But yes, I do think lemmy and ActivityPub services in general need to prioritize user control over custom “algorithms” for filtering and prioritizing content.

I wonder how successful a crowd-funded fediverse marketing push would be. I really think that’s the main thing that pushed people to bsky over mastodon.

A huge number of Twitter->bsky converts were people happy to just stay in their bubble, until eventually enough of their bubble engaged with a bsky ad they were served somewhere.

A good chunk of crowd funded ads to push the benefits of mastodon, Lemmy, etc could be the lowest hanging fruit right now.

Dude…imagine if we could convince Trump/Musk and Space Force/Space X to do this. It’s like philosophy’s version of the Torment Nexus!

So to be clear, you believe Jill Stein voters to be representative of the ones “actually trying to put out the fire”? Am I understanding you correctly?

Please, elaborate…

If more of you would have voted for Jill Stein, we wouldn’t be in this mess!

/s in case that wasn’t obvious

Hah very different themes I’d say.

On the Beach is about all the people who thought it’d be a good idea to move to Australia in case all the nukes drop during the Cold War, and then the nukes drop and everyone in the northern hemisphere dies and they survive, but then they realize they’re just waiting for the natural wind patterns to bring all the radiation over to them to kill them too. The only way to win is not to play.

So similar in that they’re both very dismal.

Well at least the physical key works for the doors. What year is that?

Yeah, I wish there was a company that made a fully dumb electric car, but there’s just no incentive to do that. I have a 2014 gas car with a normal physical key that you use to turn start it, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen an electric car where you have to use the physical key to start the car.

has a real physical key that has to be in the cabin to drive

🤨 the way you say “has to be in the cabin” makes me think it’s not a real physical key, and is actually a wireless smart key that you leave in your pocket when starting the car.

Ever read the book On the Beach?

Oh, honey…

I’m going to say it’s not a “you” problem, but a “who you’re surrounded by” problem. Is this something you’re used to percieving accurately? Do you have friends or family who would actually mean it rudely? Because, as others have mentioned, I simply would not be able to function at work if I interpreted 👍 as rude/sarcastic.

I have to assume you’re young or your work doesn’t involve communicating with coworkers or clients over text. I’d also be curious if you look back at this post 5-10 years from now and think “wtf was I on about?” (I’d also be curious if civilization still exists 5-10 years from now, but I digress…)

In the sense that people who aren’t actually being watched by a higher power will legitimately believe they are because believing anything else can be hazardous to their health.

Historically/anthropologically, conforming to the beliefs of the society you live in is the most logical thing a human can do for their survival.

I don’t think there is such a thing as over-the-top with this issue. Give them an inch and they’ll take a mile. And we’re already miles past that point.

“Um, yeah, but we could have already known everything thousands of years ago if we had just made any effort. AI is just a worse version of what evolution already made between my ears. We could have already blown the planet up 70 years ago. The beginning of time is sooooo 13.8 billion years ago, YAWN!” - OP probably

Thanks for sharing 👍

Also relevant: Americans think Bison and Buffalo are the same type of animal.