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I Am Leaving
- vlan121 3y agoJulian Assange, long time no hear.
- hcks 3y agoI never
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- jacquesm 3y agoI don't recall a video that got close to 50 upvotes without any discussion in such a short time. Am I missing something?
- jmkni 3y agoEverybody left
- petermcneeley 3y agoCame here at 5am to say the same thing.
- ImaCake 3y agoI mean it is worth the attention and topical for this site. But it is unusual. Bots are active on HackerNews so it depends on whether they got past the moderation here. Hard to do anything about the kinds of bots, possibly just humans from fiver + chatGPT, who post misinformation on the more politically spicy topics. And i could see something similar working to create an upvote bot network too.
- dijit 3y agoIt was interesting and worthy of discussion but I have nothing interesting to say.
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- pastacacioepepe 3y agoI was going to upvote and move on, as the video is self-explanatory and fun. Now I feel compelled to leave a comment to disprove this conspiracy theory.
- jacquesm 3y agoI'm sure that this applies to later upvotes, but the first few minutes when this was posted are off the scale. Once something is on the homepage it will usually stay there for a while because some fraction of the people that visit the homepage like it.
- DonHopkins 3y agoI was mesmerized by the moire effects in the video, and haven't felt that way since watching Hypnotoad for eight hours.
- jacquesm 3y agoAnd for your birthday, you receive not one but two tea sieves.
- DonHopkins 3y agoMaybe lots of people got the point of the video, upvoted it, then left Hacker News forever without commenting to tell everyone they were leaving! ;) Personally, I came here to announce I'm leaving, then not leave.
- iamflimflam1 3y agoHacker News is certainly more hostile to video than links - to me it wasn't obvious it was a video as normally people will append [video] to video links out of courtesy.
- starbugs 3y agoWasn’t even obvious to me after a first glance at the web page on mobile.
- afandian 3y agoI thought it was excellent. A good critique of the loops people get stuck in, but also very funny. And the comic timing was on the nose. I feel like the humour is quintessentially British (I doubt Harold Shipman is well known on the other side of the duckpond, let alone the cultural subtext of an OBE). Maybe it's not as funny in America.
- RichieAHB 3y agoWhat actually happens is people often just come back to TrueBlue - like when Paul Graham left Twitter: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1604556563338887168 https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1604556563338887168.
- ImaCake 3y agoFor those unwilling to follow a twitter link: the latest post is from 2 days ago. Which is much more recent than his "I'm leaving" annoucement. EDIT: I guess this begs the question then, how do you break the cycle? Do you just stay trapped in one walled garden despite it getting much worse, or do decentralised platforms offer temporary/permanent respite?
- muglug 3y agoFalling out of the tech-cultural zeitgeist is a terrifying prospect for some. Since I was never in it, it was very easy for me to stop posting to Twitter.
- HlessClaudesman 3y agoI've been off Twatter since November. I'm enjoying Mastodon / methadone right now. Satisfies the random info itch, not enough of my social network to be addictive.
- jacquesm 3y agoYou break the cycle by sticking to your principles and when you leave you leave and 'stay left'.
- clbrmbr 3y agoCurious how this was made. Seems to have been custom coded to generate each frame?
- 3cats-in-a-coat 3y agoIt's a video.
- karol 3y agoCorrect!
- codetrotter 3y agoMy guess would have been the video was made with an animation program like Adobe Animate (the product that was previously Adobe Flash Professional and before that Macromedia Flash) or Adobe AfterEffects.
- nextlevelwizard 3y ago>Seems to have been custom coded to generate each frame? What? What seems to be "custom coded"? What even is "custom coded"? Custom as in oppose to "standard coded"? Why would you need to write any code to generate a frame for a video?
- 3cats-in-a-coat 3y agoLots of animations are generated by code partially or fully. But I read the question here as whether this is rendered in real time on the browser via custom code rather than a video codec. This is because the sharp black and white graphics appear almost vector like. However it’s a normal video.
- nextlevelwizard 3y ago>Lots of animations are generated by code partially or fully. Few, maybe some, not lots. Unless you count using any piece of software as coding which seems silly.
- kubb 3y agoA for effort. Still I left Twitter. It rewards posts expressing strong negative emotions too much, and the sycophancy around popular accounts is depressing.
- trabant00 3y agoEverybody's looking for a technical solution to a human problem. There's no COC, algorithm, policy, federation, whatever that will fix social media. The only thing that worked long-term where limited scoped* forums with 100% human moderation that basically had one single rule: "this is my forum and I appoint moderators that enforce my vision". You built long term reputation and relationships on these forums so whatever you posted was taken in context. * limited scope = geographically, culturally, interests, numbers of people. But this of course will never make a billion dollar business. So until people give up on the idea of the global app and return to "local" communities I don't think we're going to have decent social media. EDIT: by local I don't mean subreddits, discord servers, etc, but the entire site/app to be local. Not a global with local divisions.
- fardo 3y ago> until people return to "local" communities If the app NextDoor is any indication, going local doesn’t seem to help either, its as negative and fractious as any other online community. At some point, one gets the feeling “the medium is the message” and it’s a flaw inherent to all online social media.
- trabant00 3y agoNextDoor is not local. It has local divisions, communities, whatever you want to call them, but the app is not local. So the owner of the app is not involved in the local communities, he does not personally appoint moderators and so on.
- XorNot 3y agoWell, geographically local has never been a particularly good division anyway - neighbor disputes are a story as old as time, and "don't know your neighbors too well" is sound advice.
- gambiting 3y agoNextDoor doesn't work because: 1) it gets dominated by whoever shouts the loudest/who can spend most time on social media 2) You only get one local community really, and if you aren't in it, you aren't in it. I can join one of thousands of gaming discords, if any of them get too toxic for me I can just join another one. I can't do that with my local community, so you don't have the stick of "if you continue being toxic assholes I'm going to go somewhere else". You can of course stop using it but that's not "taking your business somewhere else".
- NikkiA 3y agoVery apt for me, just ditched my lemmy accounts after realising it's just as inane content as reddit had become.
- rglullis 3y agoWere you willing to create content and contribute to make it more to your liking, or are you just complaining about the low efforts of others?
- CrampusDestrus 3y agoIncredibly repetitive for being only 2 minutes long. We get it, VC funded social networks become worse over time so you have to periodically jump ship to something new, which will quickly let you down again once it gains critical mass.
- 3cats-in-a-coat 3y agoReally? I thought the best part was about the autonomous armored car that learned to be anti-Semitic on terabytes of unmoderated Nazi posts. Repetitive is the point, because we repeat ourselves, but in time periods long enough that we forget and don't notice. This is our stupidity, compressed.
- rob74 3y agoYeah, I guess that's one of the points that the video tries to make: the repetitiveness is so numbing that you stop noticing that the behavior of the platforms is getting more and more egregious...
- rglullis 3y agoOr maybe: Stop. Get some help. Stop chasing "VC funded social networks". Let's look at the indieweb for a sustainable model. Let's patronize separate, small, independent service providers to keep the servers running. That's all that it takes to fix this mess.
- TazeTSchnitzel 3y agoThis seems like a thinly disguised jab at people using Bluesky and Threads. I've seen a lot of fediverse enthusiasts who are extremely cynical about those two new platforms, because the former is by Jack Dorsey (ex Twitter) and the latter is literally by Meta, which is of course run by Mark Zuckerberg. I can understand that towards Meta, but Bluesky seem to be trying something different and building a new protocol; when it comes from people who've been on the fediverse forever and regularly complain about how many other people aren't using it, this feels like sour grapes to me. The existing federated social media have some deeply ingrained problems stemming from the protocol, and new ideas ought to be welcomed.
- rglullis 3y agoWhat about the Fediverse flaws that can not be fixed within the context of ActivityPub? BlueSky creation of a separate protocol is an obvious attempt to create a platform where they get to become the gatekeepers of content distribution. The fact that they haven't opened up yet for other nodes makes it clear.
- TazeTSchnitzel 3y agoActivityPub has effectively become a drop-in replacement for the constellation of older systems (OStatus etc) that the fediverse used to use. That was possible because it didn't require changes in how the nodes in the network relate to eachother. Bluesky on the other hand is trying out a completely different network topology. It's too soon to say if it'll ultimately be better, but if it does succeed, it won't necessarily produce something that could be retrofitted onto ActivityPub. > The fact that they haven't opened up yet for other nodes makes it clear. That's far too cynical. A federated social network is a really difficult project and there's many good reasons you might want to start with a single node.
- rglullis 3y ago> A federated social network is a really difficult project and there's many good reasons you might want to start with a single node. And yet, Nostr is growing just nicely, with a perfectly reasonable decentralized model. I was a bit involved with Bluesky early discussions. It became clear from the get-go that they were not willing to give a chance to AP. They wanted to have something they can control, top-down. Even if that means reinventing all the different wheels they are doing.
- spants 3y agomod from navygravy.com here......why all the new traffic? :-)
- beachy 3y agoDomain is up for grabs still!
- waihtis 3y agoI find it tremendously funny a bunch of tech people are fuming over "tech billionaries" all of a sudden when the previous generation of tech billionaires were actively liaisoning with government agencies to erect horrible censorship regimes* Some revealed preferences there for sure *https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-requests-stay-order-that-restricted-biden-officials-contacting-social-media-2023-07-10/ https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-requests-stay-order-that-re...
- pyrale 3y agoThe previous generation of tech people were also up in arms. But each generation gets disillusioned at their own pace.
- izacus 3y agoWhataboutism. Look it up. (Also, you might want to check on the concept of "multiple people" which may, surprisingly, hold different opinions and express them at different times or events. Noone in this world owes you consistency to other people.)
- waihtis 3y ago> whataboutism incorrect, it's called hypocrisy
- FeepingCreature 3y ago"Whataboutism" is a term coined by those who were annoyed at being rightly accused of hypocrisy.
- jonathanstrange 3y agoThe accusation of hypocrisy is generally untenable from a moral point of view unless the discussion was about the virtues and vices of that person to start with. It's just one of those modern virtue-ethical fallacies. The question of whether a standpoint is morally the right standpoint is orthogonal to questions about the personal consistency of persons who defend the standpoint. A signpost does not need to walk into the direction it points at all. Another, more general fallacy is the computation that two moral wrongs can somehow make a right. They never do. These are not moral opinions, by the way. These points are codified into law and common jurisdiction. You cannot defend yourself in court by pointing out that others have broken the law, too.
- littlelady 3y agoI left WhatsApp when it was acquired by Meta (née Facebook) in 2014. I actually lost friends because of it-- they didn't answer calls or texts or any other form of communication on another platform reliably. It was surprisingly difficult to stick to my guns. I did--but it very much impacted my life.
- computerfriend 3y agoSame, but I'm pretty happy about it. I want my friends to share similar values and this is a good filter for that.
- mortehu 3y agoWow, and this is despite the fact that WhatsApp is end to end encrypted and not monetized?
- ElFitz 3y agoI’d be interested to know what, if anything, Meta does with WhatsApp metadata.
- dguest 3y agoI'd be interested to know too, the social graphs they can build must be mesmerizing to browse through.
- SoftTalker 3y agoHow does Meta make money? That is your answer.
- ElFitz 3y agoWe can suppose endlessly and make all the assumptions we want. I am more interested in facts.
- wtadny 3y agoI do not understand the amount of Gen-X people who are upset about Musk. Most of those virtue signalers spoke in exactly the same manner on Usenet until it was expedient financially to pretend otherwise. You don't have to take everything Musk says seriously. He speaks like people would speak in 2000. On Twitter everyone has his own page. There is no reason why anyone should feel associated with political content from others. I would not feel associated with Ahmadinejad (who was uncensored all the time) any more than with a purported far right poster. The whole thing is a storm in a teacup by people who want government censorship and cannot tolerate different speech on pages other than their own. How about leaving all .com domains because there are a couple of right wing ones, too?
- JanneVee 3y ago> I do not understand the amount of Gen-X people who are upset about Musk. It is not about Gen-X people. If you pay attention what he has promised and failed to deliver on. He promised to get rid of bots on Twitter and all that he has done is to make the problem worse and saying that he owns the contents of the tweets so AI companies needs to pay for access to create more sophisticated bots.
- XorNot 3y agoHe's also just genuinely made Twitter a worse platform. The vast majority of Twitter's social cachet was based on people viewing tweets, or hearing about things happening on Twitter, without having an account there - Twitter's actual user-base was tiny compared to it's influence. Now, if people can't view tweets without being logged in to Twitter, there's absolutely no reason to share them at all (i.e. this has led to r/worldnews switching to Mastodon links to share Ukraine war news, which in turn is a convoluted path of telegram and cross-posting from various sources). The attempt to monetize the blue checkmarks showed very fundamentally he has absolutely no idea what Twitter's value actually was.
- marginalia_nu 3y agoWeird to say, but I kinda like the new Twitter. At least in my corner it's a pretty cozy place, which is not how I would describe the platform before the sink was let in. If things continue to improve this way I may just buy a blue check. Not because I need it but because I think the platform is actually going in a good direction.
- seydor 3y ago- The free media are important in democracy - Democracy is important because boomers: as soon as they turned 18 they were the majority, ergo huge boost of democratic decision-making everywher - Boomers are fading and only the US has adequate young voters to support their democracy. You will see a turn towards centralized government everywhere , most of it powered by AI and tech moguls - The free media are not important in non-democracy, quite the opposite Ergo, you are fuming over something that won't be important in a decade now retweet, like and subscribe, sign up to my newsletter, follow me on tootweethreader, friend me on linkedin and swipe right on tinder
- XorNot 3y agoThis is either performance satire, or you genuinely do not understand how democracy - and more importantly, percentages, actually work.
- karol 3y agoVery funny I enjoy
- AeroNotix 3y agoFeels like someone watches a bit too much Black Mirror and thinks themselves witty enough to generate comparable content.
- dschuetz 3y agoI wasn't aware of https://briefs.video https://briefs.video. Now I am. And it's hilarious!
- ghaff 3y agoI guess I have trouble empathizing with all the drama concerning messaging apps. I use WhatsApp for a couple international people I sometimes am in touch with. May have one or two other messaging apps I sometimes use. Mostly SMS/iMessage and GChat at work.
- Pannoniae 3y agoI think this is true for anything popular (and harmful).... if you don't listen to popular music, people apply social pressure on you. If you don't play popular video games, people apply social pressure on you. If you don't have an account on $socialMedia, people apply social pressure on you. This is especially dangerous combined with the trend of people becoming more and more narrow-minded (see how "association by guilt" is a major thing now) so they demand more and more censorship everywhere to deplatform people who they don't like.
- renegat0x0 3y agoI think the only way to break the cycle is to selfhost. Google will not scan your mails, will not scan your drive. Microsoft will not scan you drive. Apple will not process your pictures. Twitter will not control your speech. NSA will not see if you were at a protest, or went to a medical facility to perform a surgery of any kind. "But does it matter if NSA sees me at a protest?" asks somebody. We will see. We will see. Maybe in a year. Maybe in two. Maybe never. Let's hope so. Most of things you can self host. Probably the biggest problem is to selfhost videos, as they are heavy. "But it is difficult to self host, and dangerous" says somebody. Yes it is. Yes it is. "But I will not be able to talk with my friends" complains somebody. Let's wait how it all pans out. Maybe corporations and governments will not see and control everything we do. Maybe they will. They have all the money they want. They can make all the money they want. They have a machine, they can make all the money. It's not about money. It's about control, it's about their vision of how they wanna see the world.
- bt4u 3y agoSelf hosting is not sufficient. We saw that with the kiwi farms website. I didn't follow their story too close but it's wild how not just Cloudflare dropped them but also how big ISPs were willing to drop routing to them. You can self host. It helps. Won't help you if major ISPs decide your self hosted ip shouldn't exist online.
- deathbypenguin 3y agoI would argue that the vast majority of self-hosting business-cases/needs are not as 'edge' as KiwiFarms.
- uselpa 3y agoTrue, but only if you threaten their business model, which is unlikely if you selfhost for yourself and relatives.
- danaris 3y agoThere's a huge difference between some random techie self-hosting their own website and email for personal use, and a server full of people who spew hate and actively attack others. If you're worried about getting the same treatment as KiwiFarms...maybe don't spread hate or dox and stalk people??
- sidcool 3y ago/r/OutOfTheLoop Can someone enlighten?
- uwagar 3y agothe french accent used for "sometime later" is funny. anybody know when this trend started cos im seeing it all over the place :)
- jee1shi 3y agoFrom SpongeBob: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wjA_TZopeK0 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wjA_TZopeK0
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- eterm 3y agoIt's the "French Narator" from Spongebob Squarepants, a cartoon about a sponge. There were narrated time cards such as "2 hours later", or "Much much later", in the series.
- inopinatus 3y agoYour periodic reminder that quitting social media is like quitting smoking. Facebook et al are the Philip Morris of tech
- ryzvonusef 3y agowhen people actually leave, they don't announce it like a departure terminal announcement; they just... leave. ---- In more contemporary happening, people announcing leaving twitter are just signalling; they might pretend they like the environment of threads, but they thrive on the attention. People actually leaving are those who just were waiting for a "text" Instagram, and are happy to find a tool that fits their needs. Do I feel twitter will decline one day? Yes, though not because people are leaving, but because advertisers will leave and twitter will not have money to run, further degrading service.
- resonious 3y agoThe quips against billionaires is interesting given the author is selling merch. What if the merch took off big-time and the author became a billionaire because of it? Would they be different?
- mbb70 3y agoNeeding money to eat is not a sign of hypocrisy, and hypocrisy is not a sign of being wrong.
- resonious 3y ago"Needing" money to eat just means you don't have the skills necessary to hunt or farm your own food (I am certainly in this camp). But fair point on hypocrisy not necessarily being wrong.
- matricaria 3y ago> What if the merch took off big-time and the author became a billionaire because of it? Seems highly unlikely. Can you name a merch billionaire?
- defrost 3y agoArguably several members of Kardashian family Through different ventures, several members of the family have assets of over a billion dollars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashian_family https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashian_family where they, their image, their endorsements and their antics are "the merch".
- fullshark 3y agoThe best place on the net for your $25 "Capitalism is stealing, stealing is against the law" t shirts.
- latexr 3y agoYou’re extrapolating from an imaginary, wildly unlikely scenario. By that logic, no one with even so much as a lemonade stand could criticise the filthy rich. Let’s avoid becoming Matt Bors’ “Mister Gotcha”: https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/ https://thenib.com/mister-gotcha/
- endorphine 3y agoAm I the only one struggling to understand where the video is? The black-and-white theme made it pretty hard to see that there were video controls. I thought this was a hero image.
- qwertox 3y agoWhat I don't understand is why Threads is app-only. Possibly 80% of the tweets I consume are embedded in news articles, and sometimes I click on them and end on Twitter's website, where I then hang around for a couple of minutes. I have no Twitter app installed on any device and like it that way, which means that I won't ever see any of Threads' content.
- jacquesm 3y agoBecause an app is not the web. And the web is anathema to a properly walled garden.
- qwertox 3y agoSure, but I mean in relation to Twitter, which in that sense is not a walled garden.
- jacquesm 3y agoTwitter is very much a walled garden and is in that sense rapidly becoming more so, especially because Elon Musk is dreaming of making the Twitter app into the 'everything' app that will be a platform for all your comms and commercial transactions. AOL next gen.
- cmrdporcupine 3y agoIt's also not a "fair" comparison because twitter was born before smartphone penetration and the "mobile first" thing. They launched on the web first, like Facebook, and probably would love to wall things off more and lock out the web, but can't now. (Though Musk clearly made an effort a couple weeks ago by requiring log in to view any tweets, he's had to partially roll that back, though not fully) When I went looking at any of the various new social network startups that have tried to get into the market all of them -- except the fediverse/open-source/hacker type projects -- were mobile only, even some after years of being on the market. Clearly highly motivated to keep a mobile-only moat around things.
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- BirAdam 3y agoFirst, there was LiveJournal. Then there was MySpace. Then there was FaceBook. I was on FaceBook until .edu stopped being a requirement. Shortly after that change, my wall became a mix of soft porn and hightimes. Nothing wrong with that, but it isn’t what I want to see so I deleted my FaceBook account. I went over to Twitter. Over time, Twitter ceased to be interesting as it turned into people affirming their positions on things they usually didn’t understand very well. I deleted my Twitter account half a decade ago. All of it is actually useless, and it does nothing but eat time.
- sevrinsky 3y agoUtter futility! — said Koheleth — Utter futility! All is futile!
- dade_ 3y agoLinkedIn at least managed to retain its only useful function, a self-updating Rolodex. It would be nice to be able to disable the virtue signalling feed though.
- ljm 3y agoThe joy of LinkedIn is you don't need to spend your life scrolling through it. Go in, spend 5 seconds seeing what's new or if you have any non-spam messages, then close the tab. Ignore it for a week or two and repeat, no excessive engagement required.
- sanderjd 3y agoYeah I unironically really like LinkedIn. I use it to see who works at companies and who else people I know might know, and what all those people have been up to. This is all super useful information to me as I plan out what to work on and with whom. But the feed could just not be there and it would make no difference. Not sure what you'd put in that real estate on the home page instead though.
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- kachurovskiy 3y agoThis is working as intended and is similar to evolution. Every step brings something new and fades when the time comes. Would suck to still be in ICQ and MySpace world today.
- pmlnr 3y ago> Would suck to still be in ICQ and MySpace world today. Bullshit. It was a much healthier world.
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- Karsteski 3y agoThis may be one of the best things I've seen on the internet in a long time. Thank you.
- ChrisMarshallNY 3y agoI love that! I maintain accounts on all of the sites, but almost never go there. This place is pretty much the only place I do social media, these days. I stopped engaging in StackOverflow, because I was tired of constant low-grade condescension and patronizing. Not quite true... I have to use Facebook from time to time, as I support an open-source initiative.
- kayo_20211030 3y agoEvery site analog has `ads`, `ads`, `ads` at the top. Then, when you waste a few minutes watching a banal video, full of unoriginal cliches, and bored to distraction, you're asked to buy merch. It's hard to tell the difference here between parody, idiocy, and the commercialism that I assume is the target of the parody.
- nicce 3y agoMaybe it is a clever way to make you to think about these subjects and make money in the process?
- busterarm 3y agoBut the ads on the site tell me that Capitalism is Stealing. And stealing is bad.
- optymizer 3y agoAs someone who grew up in the Soviet Union, I find that people who complain about capitalism have not typically experienced another form of economic system. Most recently, my Uber driver was a 20-something year old from Brazil who thought capitalism was evil and seriously wanted to bring back communism. She went on a long rant about capitalism, how we need a revolution and how communism was going to make things better. - "Have you lived in Communism?" - "No, but I read about it" The grass is always greener, especially if you read books that tell you how it's so much greener on the other side.
- defrost 3y agoYou make a fair point, who in their right mind would want to live in a centralised command economy claiming to impose a dictatorship of the proletariat on some mythical road to an imagined communism. Have there been any actual communist states? For that matter, is the US a "capitalist state" or just something flawed in the vicinity of an ideal. People can rightly complain of Citizens United and extreme wealth disparity without wanting some farcical wealth leveling via a Bolshevist revolution and a bunch of tossers rabbiting on about Marxism | Leninism while imprisoning millions.
- brodouevencode 3y agoIt's time we stop with the retarded purity tests.
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- uhtred 3y agoThese "apps" to the regular folk ("regs" from now on) are akin to putting a new shiny object in a monkey cage at the zoo. The regs don't think or care about privacy implications, the regs just see a new shiny thing they can use to boast and seek attention with, or even better become An Influencer! Scrolling reddit live or tiktok is bizarre! It's like walking down a corridor in an insane asylum with tiny windows on each cell door, and the inhabitant is desperately trying to get your attention- "look look i play jazz version of Rammstein on accordian!- but you just keep on walking.
- adql 3y agoSure buddy, see ya monday
- trillic 3y agoThe production style reminds me of The Program audio series. A fantastic Sci-Fi audio theater production. https://programaudioseries.com/ https://programaudioseries.com/
- qudat 3y agoVariant of https://bower.sh/bowers-law https://bower.sh/bowers-law
- doodpants 3y agoThis video is amusing and all, but is the author's point that enshittification isn't a thing, or that it's not a legitimate reason to go elsewhere? If so, I must disagree. What's the alternative? To just continue sitting in the slowly boiling water?
- Dingen 3y agoI think the point of the video is to advise people to not join these centralised corporate-owned platforms in the first place.
- JeremyNT 3y agoTo save a click: this parody video presents a sequence of posts on fictional social media sites, in which the poster describes futilely switching to new sites in succession to avoid whatever issue the prior site presents. A narrator reads the contents of the posts.
- dineshkumar_cs 3y agoTXT files -> Sticky Notes -> OneNote -> Evernote -> Sublime -> Obsidian -> MD Files Git and local markdown beats time and all note-taking apps.
- mikestaub 3y agoWe keep trying to solve a business model problem with technology and it seems impossible. Until we can find a way to make the end users the customer and not the product, we will always get the same result in the end. I am partial to the Netflix model, where 10% of users pay per month to unlock premium features, and the other users must be invited by the paying users or pay themselves. No free accounts at all.