A very american perspective, tbh. From soneone in a country where you're not allowed to carry a gun around as a random idiot, it's so wild to read.
Then again, I also understand that this external perspective has little meaning. You can't magically wish the laws + all those guns away, and like in any arms race you can't be entirely unarmed until you can enact a more permanent de-armament solution later.
I mean it's hardly a surprise or a secret that the server-based, server-specific and decentralized nature of fediverse-based apps like Mastodon is counter to how people want to use most of their social media.
There's a reason Bluesky takes off so well: Central server, Twitter-like UX, near-instant entry. Compare me recently wanting to check out MBin, and finding that only tiny servers had open registrations. Yeah sorry, I'm not that interested either, no MBin for me then.
I think this is based on the way short form video has taken over as being what having-the-TV-on-in-the-background was for the baby boomers. And click-then-go-back is too complex an interaction for "noise" while having your brain off, while swiping from meaningless clip to meaningless clip in shorts or tiktok works.
Yeah a friend of mine was a logistics warehouse worker for multiple companies, and she said Amazon was by-far the best. Yeah it's not a good job, but it beats the alternatives by a mile where she lives.
Feels like macbooks need every square mm of aluminium surface area hence less ports, as they barely manage to not reach autoignition temperature. Likewise plenty laptops with metal shells seem to use them as their ground, being too cheap for one tiny wire, and hence the case will slowly retain charge over a long day and you get this weird scratchy/jittery feeling when touching the case. Because ground is haaaaard.
And such shit in laptops costing thousands of euros. Fuck.
Can't recommend enough. A fantastic sport to pick up for after work if you're working in IT or so, clears your mind, good for the shoulders and the back, and calms you down.
Many americans do just that, yes. :'(