MonkeMischief @ MonkeMischief @lemmy.today

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...it's an economic depression! hope you're ready for your grocery bill to quadruple.

complete economic meltdown.

Aw man I seem to vaguely remember a short time when this wasn't happening ever since I've been of working age, but it already feels so distant now...

Hey that's really helpful, thank you for taking the time to share! I really appreciate it. :) I really should take another crack at it.

I dunno this kinda cracks me up a little because like...if you dig deep enough, were people flame-warring on usenet or BBS (wait lemme finish! Lol) over:

"Email needs way better UX and an insta-one-click-sign-up zero-thinking on-ramp so even a single-celled organism can figure it out!"?

That's the easiest descriptor nowadays that explains the Fediverse. Email. "What if Twitter but as a generalized service that anybody could run, like email. Yahoo? Gmail? RobertLovesSurfing.net? They can all email each other but your account lives on one."

A better way of seeking out an instance could be handy perhaps. I found Mastodon pretty smooth with "Hey you might like these if...!" Sort of suggestions. The openness of the platform should make this a much easier task than it might be otherwise, I think.

I also think better explaining the portability of your account data would help people see the benefit there.

I'd like more kinds of nerds to have an easier time getting on the Fediverse with us, so let's improve that, but I also think we're less popular BECAUSE the Fediverse is more about human communication much like "The Old Internet", and less about desperate vapid fame-seeking and self-marketing and identity-as-brand, like Web2/3.0.

A lot of me thinks we're here because corpo-net "disrupted" our forums and blogs away.

IMHO, the commercial-verse can keep its skibidis and hauk-tuas and *"Oh suddenly I'm famous! thanks for the gold kind stranger!"*s

I don't think it's cruel elitist "gatekeeping" to say the Fediverse is for anybody! But maybe not for Everybody. (Imagine if major brands discovered everybody moved to the Fediverse, for instance. Yikes.)

BTW it's 2025 and plenty of people I've observed, here in the U.S, still complain that email is "too complicated." (And no, they weren't formerly from an uncontacted tribe or rescued from a sealed 1950's fallout shelter.)

We could make things a bit easier to understand and smoother to experience, but trying to UX-away the requirement for a modicum of intelligence required is not a great end goal, I think.

It could be that sorta thing, but I think it was the same aim as the "salt typhoon" attack on U.S telecomms corpos.

A majority of the vulnerabilities and data dumps are, yes, worthless, but somewhere there's dumb U.S officials or people with clearances doom-scrolling TikTok , and their data or meta-data is giving valuable insight into how they can be manipulated, blackmailed, who they're connected to, whatever.

That's some good humor LMAO.

RedNote wasn't coughing up all the ad money and buying off influencers to screech "I'm going to RedNote, all hail glorious PoohBear!" at the time I guess lol.

PLA soldier

It's early, so here I am laughing picturing some kid LARPing in a bunch of 3D printed gear. . .which would warp in the sun on the walk to your door, which in turn explains why you spot his mom's the people's leased German EV sedan sitting at the end of your driveway.

giving anyone instant access to any amount of exactly what they want most is dangerous (Edit: likely irresponsible, potentially dangerous, like designing escapist drugs

Oh wow, how you so perfectly, succinctly described all the empty promises of Ai hype in one elegant line. 😬

We also have to consider moderation. If suddenly everyone just jumped to the fediverse all at once...hoo boi let's just say I bet the FBI would have quite a field day.

But then again there's PeerTube instances that seem to be doing pretty well so...I dunno...?

Exactly. I think a lot of people just go to whatever is blasted into their eyeballs often enough without a second thought as to the source. I bet with the TikTok news, RedNote probably started paying a bunch of influencers to astroturf and bought a bunch of ad space.

I doubt so many people would be buying nonsense on Temu if it wasn't buying up every. Single. Unblocked. Ad space. Across everything.

People would be like "WTF is a Temu? I'm not into pokemon. Oh I see. It looks sketchy."

Why is modern webdev such a clusterfuck?

Not a webdev.

Have tried multiple times to "finally figure out how this web stuff works because I'd like a nice website that isn't a huge chonky slowpoke WordPress install with ad-infested plugins."

I can't do it. Gamedev is hard, but makes 1000x more sense than whatever cargo-cult bubblegum-and-hope the modern web runs on.

I probably should learn JS, but I'm very hesitant to even bother with it because it feels like an insane time commitment. Like getting a doctorate from scratch in something you're not SUPER jazzed about or starting OnePiece from Ep 1.

"Oh cool, you learned that thing everyone complains about! But you know nothing until you get good at ~30 out of 400 different highly opinionated frameworks."

The input to result ratio just doesn't seem like it's there. O.o Maybe I'm just a noob but this is my experience lol.

And don't even get me started on RAM-munchy Electron apps.

"Why yes, I WOULD love a separate instance of Chrome running for every messenger app I use! And I love when Discord is the only support resource! :D"

--Nob'dy Ev'r, 2025 A.D

They wouldn't want you to know it all depends on a Frankensteined chunk of spaghetti'd COBOL that hasn't been updated since a guy they forgot about set it up before he retired in like 1996. And they're just betting that, if they don't look at it too hard, it won't oopsie a cascade of critical failures.

**bae-blades <3

Eddy Gordo's got this!

Ha! Similar story, but Capoeira here. We're all in formation and called to do "armada", some arts might call it a "spinning back crescent".

I whipped around and threw that leg and spun so hard that I caught just enough air to take my anchored foot out from under me and land on my butt. Oooow. Lol

I imagine some funny cartoonish "woopidy woop!" sounds would've completed the moment. XD

I've been seeing this suggestion in various replies and it's got me thinking people are just seeking an excuse at this point. 😂

I'm curious to know what your opinion is on unions today. Because in their current form, I don't believe they are beneficial to everybody.

I'm sorry to hear about your experience and I don't disagree with you, sadly! Unions in their current state are rather flawed!

In the public sector where I worked, the union was pretty crap as well. It was mostly run by older people who were simply coasting along to retirement, so whenever the bosses would say "We need to suspend cost of living increases" or some other detriment to everybody else (like part-timers who weren't allowed to be union)...

The union would simply roll over and show their bellies to get rubs and treats from the establishment without a fight. Again, the union leadership were just coasting to retirement, so they couldn't care less if they tried. Absolutely useless. "Bargaining." Yeah, right!

I've always thought seniority alone is a terrible metric with which to rank leadership, and it establishes yet another bullshit unjustified hierarchy just like the job itself does. If anybody can say "What I say goes, because I get to make the rules.", then we're doing it all wrong.

If there's "wining and dining" for "campaigning", we're doing it all wrong.

Unions should be a democratic collective, not yet another pathetic internal power struggle.

Unions have been de-fanged by corporate lobbyists under the guise of being "recognized." In my eyes, if they're jumping through hoops so their bosses "allow" them, what is the point?

The purest form of a union is the workers grouping up and saying :

"We will be treated better if you want your profit machine to keep running. Otherwise, things will start getting very painful for you, financially or otherwise."

Bosses should be afraid to piss off the people who make them money. Instead, they feel entitled to a ready and desperate wageslave pool, where they can require PHDs and pay $20 an hour and demand unpaid overtime and require "permission" to be sick.

I've learned organizing a strike without jumping through a ton of hoops is called a "wildcat strike" and we've been conned into thinking that's "frowned upon." I personally think it sounds badass and should happen more often.

Instead, modern unions are "permitted" to exist, so long as they don't actually threaten profits too much, and they're run by people who want to "be the boss" themselves. They're even told when it can be "illegal to strike"!

So basically, the system needs a rework, but unions as an idea must be saved and protected if we want to avoid a complete Mordor scenario. Capitalists would still resort to slavery, company stores, child labor, and more, if unions past didn't put up a very real fight.

Things like the 40 hour work week, FMLA, and sick days were literally bought with blood. And today we've raised generations to be complacent and docile to cruel masters.

Especially ironic in a country established in rebellion to a monarchy, who loves to eagle-screech about how "free" it is.

"Labor day" barely has meaning anymore, and we're only conditioned to memorialize the veterans of foreign wars. Holidays to solemnly remember the sacrifice of both are now an excuse to grift oversized pickup trucks and mattresses.

The Battle of Blair Mountain isn't even taught in history classes! (I only learned of this a few years ago!)

In the end, unions should be agile, cunning, and cooperative representation of the entire worker base, rather than clubs of broken old men saying "Screw you, got mine."

Anarchist cooperation is surprisingly effective in small groups with common aims. The power-hungry know this, which is why they come down on any hint of autonomy without mercy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_union_busting_in_the_United_States

They are usually on the younger side, they usually get punished for it, and they usually end up needing and usually not getting therapy.

Nailed it. Public library here. I would often notice patterns with hangups where people didn't understand the procedures, for example taking an accessibility seat when they didn't require it, because it wasn't clearly marked. So I'd make nice clear signs for such things that solved the problem, and I'd get punished.

I would try to take pride in my work, I wanted to share specific knowledge I knew in workshops. I was told "That's not your role, go back where you belong."

And then they wanted to have talks with me like "It seems like you're not happy to be here." Wow, no shit?

Retail job before that, a district manager visits and notices a simple sorting mechanism I designed for getting small products out from awkwardly deep shelves using ribbons to pull the stack forward.

"What is this?" She asks. I proudly begin to explain.

"Oh you misunderstand. . ." She cuts me off with utmost disrespect. ". . .I don't care. " And demands it be done some other way.

I was too young and desperate to send an effective message by simply leaving and never coming back.

The days of meritocracy or rewarding "out of the box thinking" or hard work are statistically dead. Unions at least have a chance of putting these egomaniacal choads in their place.

Right?! And who would have a razor so close by that it would even make a convenient "Oh I'll just use this then" bookmark? That was a weird one. I hope it wasn't some kind of cruel joke.

On the other hand, she found like $50 once. Who knew books would be risk/reward mystery chests?

In any case, once a book is returned, it's purged from the user's history for privacy reasons, so... (Shrug!)

Thank you for sharing! That's hilarious and...diabolical. 😂 I'm going to bet it would be defective books anyway hahaha. What a dude.

(Although defect books would be perfect for those crafts people sometimes do where they cut up the pages artfully or whatever hehe.)