yogthos

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by yogthos 4y ago
It will never cease to amaze me that Musk managed to convince so many seemingly intelligent people that he's some sort of a genius.
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Mastodon instance for Emacs and FOSS enthusiasts(emacs.ch)
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It doesn't, that's just a straw man you're using.
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This type of collaboration happens all the time. People interact all across the fedivrse. I'd really love to see all the research you've done to come up with your thesis there that cross bubble collaboration is somehow worse in th
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by yogthos 4y ago
Pretty hilarious to realize that even people on HN, who are supposedly technically literate, don't understand how the internet is supposed to work. Decentralization is the core idea behind the internet. Anybody arguing that we should p
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cope
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My experience having used both Twitter and Mastodon is exact opposite. Mastodon tends to foster more personal interactions and collaboration precisely because instances are smaller and focus on specific topics. If you're an artist then
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by yogthos 4y ago
That's not how federation works at all. Your identity in Fediverse is akin to an email address. You're not losing your identity when you interact with people on other servers, and Mastodon does allow you to verify yourself. The wa
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by yogthos 4y ago
Social media has come to play an important role in our society. It's a way for people to get news and to discuss it with their peers as well as a tool for education. For better or worse, social media has become an invaluable tool and a
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I keep seeing this repeated over and over every time the discussion of the Fediverse comes up, but I don't actually see this being a problem in practice. It’s perfectly fine if the network consists of a bunch of loosely connected islan
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by yogthos 4y ago
>You seem to overlook the fact that Europe became dependent on Russian Energy against the wishes of the US. And you seem to overlook the fact that US has been continuously interfering in European politics to force Europe to stop using Ru
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>All they did was start using technology and techniques already developed by the capitalist countries. All they did was make a century worth of capitalist progress in a couple of decades. As the many studies I linked above clearly show,
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The economic repercussions are from Europe choosing to cut itself off from Russian energy, 60% of which cannot be replaced. Without Russian energy Europe cannot function, and it was Europe under pressure from US that decided to start the tr
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well let's just see how 'alive' Europe is Inflation is in double digits already https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/31/business/economy/eurozone... energy prices are going through the roo
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If Europe committing economic suicide on the behest of the US isn't a compelling argument, I don't know what is.
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I have a bridge to sell you.
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I literally grew up in USSR, so unlike you I have direct lived experience. I can guarantee you that nobody I've ever met was thinking about escaping anywhere. Vast majority of people lived happy lives without many of the worries people
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It's a term that accurately describes the relationship between US and Europe. US provides bulk of security for Europe, and in exchange Europe is politically subservient to US. For a deeper discussion, I highly encourage you to watch th
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassal
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That's an embarrassingly ignorant statement. US sat out the war while the rest of the world was being devastated. While Europe and Asia suffered massive destruction, US was building out its industrial base, Then when the war ended, US
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Setting up email back in the day required far more screwing around than Mastodon does today, and despite that email continued to gain more and more traction until it became mainstream and even the most computer illiterate people were able t
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Mastodon is also being managed by people who operate the servers, and there are obvious defaults. When you go to https://joinmastodon.org/ it guides you through picking a server. This isn't rocket science and I have no
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by yogthos 4y ago
First, it's important to define the metric for success. I would argue that Mastodon is already successful. It's a network that has over a million users on it, and that's growing steadily. At this point, Mastodon will be aroun
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Wait till you find out what USSR managed to do when it comes to lifting people from owning nothing. Russia went from a backwards agrarian society where people travelled by horse and carriage to being the first in space in the span of 40 yea
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a few examples https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/28/us/politics/us-china-semi... https://techwireasia.com/2021/12/the-newest-chip-by-alibaba-... http://en.people.
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People like Zeihan have been saying this literally for decades. It's amazing anybody still listens to them.
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Yup, just like email never took off because people have a selection of mail server providers to choose from.
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It's kind of weird to me to say that a platform with millions of users on it is a ghost town. I have both twitter and Mastodon accounts, and I find the opposite to be true. I have roughly the same number of followers on both platforms,
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There are plenty of actual chat apps out there like Signal or Matrix that you should be using for this sort of thing. Neither Twitter or Mastodon are the right tool for this.
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As I recall, Russia did allow Google and Fb to operate while Yandex and VK were ramping up.

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