The post about Stephen King moving to Threads says otherwise. But to be fair, it’s Threads and not Bluesky, which people here hate more.

Not really. I mean, sure it’s the same concept, but email has been getting semi-centralized between the big players now, with gmail and maybe icloud getting the largest chunk of users. That would be similar to letting users choose between .world or .ml to sign up with, which is against the fediverse principle to spread the load as wide as possible.

When you present the lowest common denominator internet user with hundreds of instances to choose from and requiring them to think further than clicking through a sign-up page, you lose user interest pretty quickly.

Nice! I saw the news about this earlier today and it’s cool to see it in action.

My gas bill is $48 and the actual gas I used is worth $2. The rest is fees and other stuff.

I’m more concerned about scalability. Hosting video gets expensive pretty quickly once people start signing up and using it.

From hacker stock photos to now weird AI generated thumbnails.

Did you have to do any special configuration, or was it a seamless installation just like a non-mac laptop?

Right, but the distros employees are allowed to use are dictated by corporate IT so they are able to control them and have the required endpoint security tools. So people who prefer linux have very limited options.

Most of our sysads use macOS. A few use linux but they have limited choices with distros and can only use fedora I think.

Storage costs is the biggest hurdle for decentralized video platforms. I wonder how instances will handle that.

Getting the BTS fanbase to switch platforms is huge and can essentially get you millions of users in an instant. I wish Mastodon was in the picture though.

And you’re still alive right? /s. Akin to the people who said Musk’s firing of twitter employees was a genius move because the site was “still running” after all that.

Yeah it really actually only takes a couple of big users moving to Mastodon to cause a domino effect of a mass migration. I hope more people with tons of followers start moving over.

I just use Audacious with a winamp skin. Looks identical but actually FOSS.

Startpage gives you the same google results, minus the AI responses.

Maybe it’s just because I got over my DT phase a long time ago, but this song is nothing new to me. Just the same elements, structure, and style as most of their songs from the past decade and a half. I was expecting something fresh with Portnoy’s return, just like how the first and second (except Sherinian) albums of each of their keyboardists was groundbreaking and refreshing. Of course we have yet to hear the rest of the album, and this is probably generic for the purposes of a single release.

Gotta ask some of my coworkers if they were one of the participants in the survey.

You can respond with a message included. If I see the location as a physical room and not a zoom link, I accept/tentative and add a comment that I won’t be at the office on that day/time and if we can do it online instead.

Yeah, that’s what the meeting invite RSVP is for.

The thing with climate change is, like science, it’s true whether you believe it or not. I’ve seen those types of comments as well because I follow some news pages and I honestly don’t even bother engaging. The people who have the time to go on comment sections of news articles like that are never going to be convinced otherwise.