Because you need network effect. Which means you need big money for marketing, content moderation and development costs. That includes algorithms, which maybe you don’t want, but most people do.
It’s not that I want a for profit company, I just don’t think Mastodon will every achieve critical mass without one.
It’s not the users, it’s the developers / investors. I’ve tried so many times to get into Mastodon, but it sucks compared to Bluesky. It lacks content and polish, so it’s no wonder everyday people choose Bluesky over it.
The real conundrum is why isn’t there a for profit company with big money behind it, investing in ActivityPub. I guess you could point to Threads? But insert your “not like that” meme of choice.
Fwiw, apparently Bluesky did initially look at activity pub, but found the protocol lacking, which is why they invented ATProto. I don’t know the details though.
No thanks, our conservatives are further to the left than your Democrats, and California has the population of the rest of Canada combined. You can make your own country
Not taking money from Google means Firefox dies. Straight up. There’s absolutely no amount of “focusing on the basics” or cutting executive salaries that would make up the deficit, not even close.
We all wish that wasn’t the case, me especially. But that’s the reality.
I mean… I still need to go into the dealer to update my 2021 Toyota software. And they certainly don’t provide updates for anything other than safety related issues.
Speak for yourself. I think that’s one of the things Tesla got right. Cars shouldn’t have features locked behind software updates though.
It means it took a lot of time and money to gain vast sums of knowledge, but has no useful ways to apply it.
I can quit anytime. Right after I see what’s after the next blind.
Balatro
Honestly, after reading some reviews I haven’t even watched it.
Fair enough! I haven’t seen any of those nor am I familiar with the source material. Maybe there’s hope yet
Amazon is 1 for 4 on doing justice to adaptations I was very excited for. I’m not holding my breath on this one.
Because like it or not, actually paying for stuff is the only way to save journalism and by extension our democracies.
The alternative is to link shitty clickbait / AI spam. At least this way:
Please don’t ban paywalls.
At least you aren’t going to die becoming a southern belle.
I always thought kernel devs were smart people. I’m kind of shocked learning a new language is this big of a barrier to them.
American magic bean companies like Beanco, The Boston Bean Company, and Nvidia
Omg 🤣
Lots of people mentioning collaboration / multiple users, yet all your replies seem to completely ignore this aspect. I’m guessing you might live alone and are struggling to imagine some very common use cases here.
Good call, let’s discourage deep thought and long form discussion. More clickbait and exploitation please!
I’m setting up something similar using Unraid and VMs. This route would probably be more of a challenge for you technically… But if you’re willing to learn, and pay, Unraid sounds like it would be a good fit for what you’re trying to accomplish.