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Re: The Shit Show

#91

Post by leokennis »

warinukraine wrote: post #82
ArmandGrillet wrote: post #71

Well-written and touching post. To switch off this API used by so many long-time users on the same day "For You" appears as the default option on Twitter triggers me. The "For You" timeline is only for Elon: it will drive engagement, extremism, and all the things social networks have been accused of driving for years now in order to make more $. Some folks here have been comparing the crypto/Web3 and ActivityPub craz…

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I imagine you believe the money you keep with the company known as your bank is yours as well right?

Just because it’s a company doesn’t mean they get to behave like assholes and then put the blame on their users for being gullible or ignorant.

Re: The Shit Show

#92

Post by input_sh »

hhh wrote: post #78
ArmandGrillet wrote: post #71

Well-written and touching post. To switch off this API used by so many long-time users on the same day "For You" appears as the default option on Twitter triggers me. The "For You" timeline is only for Elon: it will drive engagement, extremism, and all the things social networks have been accused of driving for years now in order to make more $. Some folks here have been comparing the crypto/Web3 and ActivityPub craz…

The ‘For You’ is the behavior i’ve had for a while. I’m happy to be able to go to the Following tab. I’m tired of seeing ‘X follow’ etc.

You were able to switch to "latest tweets" before as well. The control was top right next to "home" label, the icon looked like stars.

The only thing that truly changed is "latest tweets" got renamed to "following" and it now takes up more vertical space (53 pixels to be exact) completely unnecessarily for something you're quite unlikely to click on on a regular basis.

Change for the sake of change. Doesn't actually have an impact on anything.

Re: The Shit Show

#93

Post by williamcotton »

riceart wrote: post #81
count wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Napster didn't start until 1999 :) I remember downloading mp3s on Napster, and then using my parallel port to transfer them to my Diamond Rio MP3 player. All 4 songs at a time!

Before Napster there was FTP.

The first MP3 I downloaded was from IRC and played back on the Fraunhofer Institute MP3 player. Old timers will remember that if you caused your screen to redraw at all, say by scrolling a window, the audio would skip. The first song? Bob Dylan - Stuck in the Middle With You… which is actually by Steeler’s Wheel.

Re: The Shit Show

#94

Post by warinukraine »

leokennis wrote: post #91
warinukraine wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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I imagine you believe the money you keep with the company known as your bank is yours as well right? Just because it’s a company doesn’t mean they get to behave like assholes and then put the blame on their users for being gullible or ignorant.

It's mine because the law says so.

Re: The Shit Show

#95

Post by tptacek »

warinukraine wrote: post #90
tptacek wrote: post #12

I think (and have been saying this a bunch lately) that he's right about ActivityPub and Mastodon, and that "a universal timeline" is actually a really good way to put words to it. I was a Mastodon hater for years, but having used it for the past month or so with an actual community of people (really: the whole community I interacted with on Twitter before), I have to admit it: the ActivityPub people were right about…

May I ask what was your original argument against Mastodon?

I looked at in terms of the "Fediverse", a coherent decentralized social network, with lots of instances cooperating to make one intentional thing. I'm still not bullish about that. But once you use it, you see that it's basically hyper-interactive RSS.

(Maybe you see the two at the same thing; I don't.)

Re: The Shit Show

#97

Post by Ensorceled »

warinukraine wrote: post #82
ArmandGrillet wrote: post #71

Well-written and touching post. To switch off this API used by so many long-time users on the same day "For You" appears as the default option on Twitter triggers me. The "For You" timeline is only for Elon: it will drive engagement, extremism, and all the things social networks have been accused of driving for years now in order to make more $. Some folks here have been comparing the crypto/Web3 and ActivityPub craz…

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And you're defending the antics of a childish billionaire and blaming the damage on the people he hurt. That's on you.

Re: The Shit Show

#98

Post by pmarreck »

count wrote: post #75
pmarreck wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OK, I have to ask- What exactly was your argument against MP3's? They literally let you transfer music with an order of magnitude less data than it took on the CD! Was it an audiophile argument, or...? I was lucky enough to live in a freshman college dorm (a music-focused dorm, no less!) circa 1997-1998 when Napster was still a thing right after MP3's were a thing, and that shit was amaaaaazing I mean given how much…

Napster didn't start until 1999 :) I remember downloading mp3s on Napster, and then using my parallel port to transfer them to my Diamond Rio MP3 player. All 4 songs at a time!

It was probably just FTP through the school's network then, but I distinctly remember sharing MP3's like it was the Wild West

Re: The Shit Show

#99

Post by warinukraine »

Ensorceled wrote: post #97
warinukraine wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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And you're defending the antics of a childish billionaire and blaming the damage on the people he hurt. That's on you.

I'm defending the right to own property, which is something really fundamental to the way we organize our society.

... and when you say "the people that were hurt"... If you leave your wallet on the street, it might be stolen and you might be hurt. I'm not blaming the victim; someone stealing your wallet is wrong even though you left it on the street. It's not your fault, I'm not blaming you, I blame the thief for the theft. On the other hand there's something that you could've done that would've avoided it - don't leave your wallet on the street.

Re: The Shit Show

#100

Post by pbronez »

tptacek wrote: post #12

I think (and have been saying this a bunch lately) that he's right about ActivityPub and Mastodon, and that "a universal timeline" is actually a really good way to put words to it. I was a Mastodon hater for years, but having used it for the past month or so with an actual community of people (really: the whole community I interacted with on Twitter before), I have to admit it: the ActivityPub people were right about…

If you want to help make the Fediverse happen, there appears to be a serious need for energy and ideas in the standards effort.

I have a thread going here https://hachyderm.io/@PeterBronez/109688815511361197

But the upshot is, get involved with:

https://www.w3.org/community/socialcg/

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