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tangentism,

And when evidence later emerges that they were killed by the Israeli military (for example)… theyll just shrug their shoulders

tangentism,

It’s not a compo face article. That was pulled from her social media as she was murdered.

tangentism,

This is one of the main issues with all new builds in London.

There’s plenty of places going up but they’re all being sold to overseas investors as buy to let and do it keeps making rents exorbitant for locals.

tangentism,

Unless Apple drops the price of their devices by at least a third, it’s not really going to happen.

Another thing to consider is that Jamf will certainly not be dominating the Apple MDM management solution arena in a decade either.

Companies with a mostly win estate with win infra, aren’t happy with paying another $40 per user, per year for Jamf and Intune will be making up a lot of ground for a one shop solution, even if management is not as featured or complex as what Jamf offers.

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Called it. Elon's doing exactly what I thought he would do: https://aus.social/@ajsadauskas/109979152813584947

Twitter is dead.

There is no point in trying to hold on to what Twitter used to be. What Twitter used to be no longer exists.

It died the moment Elon walked in the building.

Anything posted there since then has been free content on his everything app and potential crypto scam, X: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/jul/23/twitter-elon-musk-says-he-wants-to-change-companys-bird-logo

@technology

tangentism,

The thing Elon fails to understand is that someone didn’t just write Twitter on one go and gift it on to the world.

He did actually say at once point about scraping all the code base & starting from scratch!

tangentism,

The vast majority of his wealth is wrapped up in stock of a massively overvalued car company and the loans he needed to buy twitter have huge interest payments and he doesn’t have the cash to pay them

tangentism,

Artists United Against Apartheid didn’t play gigs in South African to protest the situation there.

If they had, it would have been a degree of complicity with the regime.

TBH, every major artist should loudly express that they are deliberately skipping playing in Malaysia for specific reasons.

tangentism,

I love that they are a great equaliser. In group rides, those who are not so ‘athletic’ can easily keep up with the group so it reinforces the social element.

tangentism,

Reddit AMAs pretty much died after they sacked Victoria.

tangentism,

Will, he did start on one to go into caves in Thailand but got distracted with calling the real hero a paedo!

tangentism,

Aral Balkan has been posting about surveillance capitalism/centralised networks and corpotate landgrabs for years and said this the other day

tangentism,

I presume because it’s split up into a million loosely connected pieces, we should be largely insulated from corporate invasion and interference.

Pretty much

tangentism,

To expedite the process, Mastodon instances should just defederate from them entirely. Don't let them access that data through ActivityPub.

When Twitter had an exodus to Mastodon and a lot of new instances popped up, several were quickly defederated because they were scraping data from other instances, which made a lot of people uncomfortable.

There were also a few far right instances that spun up that were also defederated and blocked within 24 hours so the communities ability to respond to situations like this is very much there and I'm sure that the vast majority will not want to have a single thing to do with meta

tangentism,

I think its a case that those who moved recently (my account here is recent but Ive been on Lemmy.ml for 2 years), had seen the writing on the wall.

When the effects start to kick in, there will be another few large influxes then when the majority left on Reddit wonder why the site went to shit overnight and where everyone else went, they will leave too.

It will be very similar to what happened with Digg all those years ago.

tangentism,

Saw this elsewhere

oh, here's some JUICY rumored details about meta's plans for the fediverse

tl;dr "Meta will only federate with select larger instances from the beginning. There will be contracts which also provide for financial compensation for the instance owners."

can't entirely verify their validity but it's still worth posting just in case

tangentism,

It sounds like its typical of what they would do: offer money to bigger instances and the admins might be tempted to help pay for server costs, etc then spurn smaller instances to break their morale.

Its a land grab basically and the response should be that any instance that takes a penny from them is instantly defederated.

tangentism,

Was about to say the same.

Medium seems to be where all the people who used to post bad take blogs went to instead of self hosting

tangentism,

the average media person’s mentality is geared toward mass distribution

Even this 'writers' take is that their path was to move away from community and threaded conversations into monologues.

The guy is a self important twit full of bad takes

tangentism, (edited )

Reddit is one of the most valuable websites on the entire internet. It's being miss-managed,

Understanding why those 2 points matter is important:

  1. Users are pumping the site full of free content willingly
  2. A subset of those same users are moderating that content for free & others are creating tools and apps to make interaction with the bare framework a better user experience
  3. The management know it's a goldmine but are clueless in how to monetize it fully

Point 1 was how sites like Facebook and Twitter became huge and made billions off selling that data and the data points generated

Point 2 is how they fell down because they didn't understand that they were content moderation businesses but failed to invest in that or use the Reddit model of getting users to moderate it themselves

Point 3 is what will cause Reddit to either collapse or die a slow death when the majority of its user base begin to realise they are producing and curating content for free and for a team that holds them in contempt.

A lot of users want to leave because they see that contempt but don't get that they are still willing to offer their labour to others for free if they would just build a new playground for them. And not even a fully featured one because Reddits framework is a rickety piece of shit. Just enough of one for them to decorate themselves with 3rd party tools, which is basically what they did with MySpace.

[Edit to add] Extended point 2 which underlines the point that Reddit is very much like MySpace in that the users are shaping their experience of the site, not the other way round

DAE dislike the term "neurodivergent" as applied to ADHD?

Disclaimer: I have no quarrel with the mods using the term in the creation of this community. I understand why they chose it, as even if they share my disagreement with the term when applied to ADHD, there's not really a better inclusive term. "Mental illness" is really the only other option, and naming a community that would...

tangentism,

The term “neurodivergent” implies that there’s nothing wrong with you if you have ADHD–you’re just special and different.

I think that’s definitely something you’ve inferred but is not necessary implied.

For me, it perfectly describes a wide range of neurodivergent conditions such as ADHD, ASD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, et al. It describes a threshold that makes those different from neuro-diversity to where that person has a disorder that impacts their daily life.

Conversely, I feel that the term ‘neurotypical’ implies that theres nothing wrong with that person when those who are NT, tend to not say what they mean, talk in riddles and hold some very strange assumed opinions about things as well as considering themselves to be normative, very much to the detriment of those they think are outside the parameters they set in their minds.

“Mental illness” is really the only other option

That would imply there is a cure, which there absolutely is not, and that there is a normative ‘well’ condition.

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