As one cannot view Twitter without an account there, I sort of tend to assume everybody have left it by now. It's crazy to me that this is not the case.
I would be worried that when the scammers in charge dump their holdings, the resulting turmoil will affect other currencies as well. Demand-based markets don't respond well nor rationally to panic.
That said, I also think the whole thing is a ponzi, and my understanding is of course affected by that. But I believe the logic above would apply in either case.
As the current us government is very pro crypto, I'd say this is not only very risky, but you would also be buying into their narrative and possibly be an even greater part of it as it crashes and burns.
They've fixed it now by the way, after someone contacted them about it. :)
I think it's cool that someone who knows nothing about Mastodon is even writing about this. Though I would wish journalists had the time to double check just a little bit more.
I think (!) the idea is that I could text you using your fediverse handle, and that it could somehow become integrated in other fediverse services.
It makes sense through the following storyline:
Dansup creates Pixelfed
People start texting each other using direct messages on Pixelfed, making Dansup uncomfortable as it is not at all encrypted
Dansup creates sup to provide integrated E2EE direct messaging in Pixelfed/associated platforms
I have no idea if it'll be good or if it'll be used. I struggle enough to get people on Signal. But if it can somehow provide E2EE while benefiting from the social graph of ActivityPub, it might not be the dumbest thing ever.
Paid for the limited plan before, but had not nearly enough searches and got annoyed by the unrolling integration of AI. Happy to be back now, but still not sure about it.
$10 per month is not nothing at all, and if I'm not somewhat confident I am ideologically aligned with Kagi I'll be reluctant to spend so much money on it. I'd rather sponsor open source projects and other things I believe in.
Kagi has a "lense" for Fediverse forums, which is a pretty great solution. Maybe adding Lemmy will work if it finds everything mirrored on lemmy.world, I'm not sure. Kagi finds everything on the original instance.
Of course, it's helped along by the fact that people don't have it installed already. But still fun to se the Fediverse represented in the list of popular apps. I think similar things are happening on Android in many countries.
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If Elena Rossini is indicative of the first generation of native influensers who are successful on the Fediverse, it's really just another reason why I like where this is headed.
It also has 7.4 on IMDB. I should give it a watch.
That's on the Mastodon side - having bluesky opted in by default would be less problematic, and would solve a lot of problems. The main reason it's not done yet is for reasons of scale.
I feel like a lot of what "Free Our Feeds" is trying to achieve has already been done by @snarfed.org@snarfed.org with @bsky.brid.gy@bsky.brid.gy. Supporting Bridgy in order to make all Bluesky accounts open for bridging by default would leap us pretty fast towards achieving these goals, by making any microblogging platform on the fediverse a genuine alternative.
Instead they need $30 million to develop yet another thing.
If Bluesky users want to fund this, it should at least safeguard that Bluesky remains committed to leaving AT Proto running. As long as they keep that running, a bridge between the Fediverse and Bluesky remains possible. Which is all I personally need, so it's all fine by me.
I make the same mistake all the time for some reason, though I know which is which. I have a theory the reason is that the X axis is often used to plot years (Y), which messes with my brain ever so slightly.
That said, I don't think the Y axis should necessarily start in zero in a graph that seeks to show the pattern of growth rather than the number of users in absolute terms. If anything, a longer X axis would have been more useful, in order to show how unusual such a growth pattern is.
Yeah, I know I shouldn't bother. I am just annoyed by the misconception that all graphs should always start in 0 on the Y axis, as if it was some law of nature. Shouldn't allow myself to get dragged in further. :)
Just to clarify, supply and demand refers here to supply and demand for the stock, not for the product (cars).
Generally, the two will be related. Sometimes, however, investors see a stock going up and they consider it valuable because they see it performing well, creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is how bubbles are made.
The Tesla stock is keeping afloat exclusively due to the perceived worth of the Tesla stock. It could keep increasing if the perceived value keeps increasing. At some point it will almost certainly fail spectacularly, but if this happens tomorrow or in ten years is anybody's guess.
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As one cannot view Twitter without an account there, I sort of tend to assume everybody have left it by now. It's crazy to me that this is not the case.