JayDee

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

The idea is that these social media sites always become monopolies. That occurs because no one can communicate with each other across platforms, which eventually leads to a majority of users migrating to a single platform over time. Once that happens, the social media group no longer has to try and the media site enshittifies slowly over time. On top of this, the insane amount of users also cripples the centralized system's ability to self-moderate properly, leading to user-based enshittification as well.

With federated social media, that barrier doesn't exist, and, in theory, the subsequent conglomeration of users doesn't happen. Additionally, federated instances can be self-hosted and sport much smaller userbases which can make self-moderation much simpler.

The joke in the video is that rather than switching to federated social media like mastodon and lemmy, twitter users chose to go to yet another centralized social media site (which while having a federation protocol, is unlikely to have users utilizing that defederation). Essentially, Billy is abandoning twitter to go to another site which will potentially have the same downward trend as twitter did before.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (8 children)

Your comment reads like you're shooting down this agitprop because it doesn't have an explicitly revolutionary spin, which seems extremely counterproductive. If we only stick with revolutionary rhetoric, we will never attract those shy of revolution, who only understand it as a violent upheaval.

Forming communities and spreading agitprop which promotes more community formation is fundamental to any path forward. Communities are the best tool to saving anyone from the currently fucked situation, even if toppling never happens. It's also the only means to build the trust needed for legitimate organizing. Agitprop only promoting community formation should not only be tolerated or accepted, it should be strongly encouraged.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Super Earth rectifies the massive increase in heroic sacrifices by increasing the total number of team members available for heroic sacrifice.

Yeah, that tracks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Here's the journal article the infographic cites

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That would be innovation, which I'm convinced no company can do anymore.

It feels like I learn that one of our modern innovations was already thought up and written down into a book in the 1950s, and just wasn't possible at that time due to some limitation in memory, precision, or some other metric. All we did was do 5 decades of marginal improvement to get to it, while not innovating much at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Jewelery making I think? The round tooth life is often used for winding metal wire and the toothed side is for actually grabbing things, so using the multipliers you could quickly switch between which type of work you're doing.

That's my guess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I think it is spoof-resistant from the sound of it? You giving a valid proof-of-region via one of their circuit designs provides proof of your region but does not give your exact location, from the sounds of it.

I'll get back to you after I've read through it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

We had a similar experience here in the spring. Pretty ominous vibes out there.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I agree that the Lost Cause myth is romantic, and I'd say that Whedon used it very effectively as a theme.

I can't really agree with Feral Historian's take that this myth was 'kinda true' for the south as that seems to suggest that southern fighters are somewhat absolved of guilt. "They were just trying to preserve their way of life!" When that life revolved around assisting plantations in maintaining control over their slave populations, often by hunting down slaves, or acting as overseers of their work, rings hollow to me.

It reads the same as anyone who's kept their head down to get by in an unjust system. You are culpable. And then fighting to try and preserve that unjust system makes you even more culpable.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I bet they're related.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's only half an hour at 2x

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