tbf, those systems are now effectively haunted

I guess mel isn’t going to use you for their self hosting needs either, then.

Made of your own skull

Again, nobody’s talking about the porn instance.

One of the problems with online forums for organizing is that it’s hard to naturally build an organizational structure. It’s possible, but I think it requires experienced organizers to start choosing collaborators from the userbase.

• in online forums, people get upvoted based on how much users agree with the comment. They are rewarded for being popular, not for having a direct impact on the problem being discussed.
• IRL people who commit effort to the cause get a certain amount of social capital, and the satisfaction of having an effect. They also form social bonds with other people in the group. Participants are rewarded for having an effect.

We haven’t seen a lot of organizing boiling out of the existing forums (Reddit, Facebook, blogs) and microblogging (Twitter) platforms. There have been a bunch of leaderless movements, like #metoo and BLM, but those have had a moment and then faded out. If they were effective tools for organizing, I would expect to see more organizations come out of them and persist.

Conversely, volunteer community organizations form all the time - people are physically situated near people experiencing similar problems who are invested in solutions they think will work for their community. In-person organization is self perpetuating in the sense that there is an inherent reward for having an effect.

I think it’s possible to use online tools to create a movement, but like the author of the article says, most of us spend our time posting and upvoting rather than doing something that will change policy.

when it comes to addressing the problems we face, no amount of posting or passive info consumption is going to substitute the hard, unsexy work of organizing.

The fediverse is great, but the problem is that it isn’t organizing. It isn’t mobilizing people to scare politicians and businesses into behaving better.

Dad jokes, but Mom?

“a network of smugglers” sounds very entrepreneurial.

• Amazon has struggled to make inroads in Argentina because of high tariffs and labyrinthine import regulations.
• MercadoLibre, Latin America’s biggest e-commerce platform, dominates the digital commerce market.
• A network of smugglers who ferry goods into the country is booming.

@farcaster@lemmy.world is having a hard time getting it to work. They’re probably an average user, so other average users will probably have issues as well.

The statements about usability and monetization hold true: if the free platform is harder to use, or it breaks business models that attract users then it will fail.

C) it’s functionally equivalent to the commercial service

D) influencers who can monetize commercial platforms can also monetize this platform - otherwise the big accounts won’t move over, nor will their followers.

Most people use computers as tools, and just want to hang with their friends or get a dopamine hit. Platforms like Mastodon don’t quite fit the bill so they fail to gain traction.

it will be followed by a giant swing in the opposite direction after

I worry that billionaires who are profiting from these policy changes will be able to cement them.

The US and Canadian population is incredibly docile, so I don’t expect revolt unless things become terrible. We’ve seen our share of wealth shrink over the past few decades, and the cost of living skyrocket, but our reaction is to elect more of the same.

I hope they delete it. Good luck!

AFAIU Lemmy sends your username, a user ID, and URI along with your message. That’s pretty innocuous.

Most credible answer of the lot.

Different people have different considerations.

When I’ve rented vehicles with a digital speedometer I haven’t felt like I’m missing anything without a dial. I haven’t found myself in situations where the movement of the needle helps me.

When I get into rental cars with a dial, I feel like I need to watch it closely because I’m not familiar with where the ticks are. It doesn’t work for me at all.

Before I bought a new car, I assumed digital speedometers would be available as a setting, not apparently not.

It’s the kind of thing that I didn’t realize I wanted until I had to deal with the alternative.

What are the alternatives?

Can you report the review as not relevant?