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Very anecdotal but I've asked my normie friends about Threads and they think it was hardly ever a thing. It may be 100 million active users but that's still a small percentage of the population it's available to, and given it's for profit that might not even be enough to sustain it. With Mastodon and Lemmy it's quality over quantity, I'm happy to be smaller, just hope we can keep Threads out if they last long enough to get around to federating.

They've always been pretty transparent about that kind of thing though haven't they?

I don't think they're denying the filter bubble exists, just giving a different theory on why things have turned bad.

It's probably the same kind of culture clash that the original video talks about. I've got to admit it is something that can rile me up probably more than it rationally deserves to, if I let it (and I'm sure others too).

I remember being told off by a moderator in the 90s for not writing full-sentence replies. You can't even imagine that today. Of course back then, as the video touches on, if you didn't like the culture or policies of a forum you just moved to another one, there were no cries of "censorship" because you choose where you want to be.

But I think that makes a good point, in the past people could choose whether they wanted to go on a forum for serious discussion, or a different forum for more casual low-effort posting. These days all these different "posting cultures" are forced to be together and end up annoying each other.

I get that, I live in the south of my country too, but only the US feels entitled enough to say "the south" and expect the whole world to know where they are.

Interesting video, makes a lot of sense. Just a couple of things to add:

In the old days of forums it's worth remembering that people on the internet had more in common with each other than they do today - i.e. generally they were people who were in to computers.

What really gets me down these days is the extremely low-effort of posting everywhere you go. I think that partly comes from the impersonal nature of online communication. Nobody knows who anyone is any more.

I agree it would be better to go back to independent message boards but it's a shame there's no "call to action" - it would be nice but how do we get people to do it? This is a popular YouTube channel, it would be great if it started some kind of ball rolling.

I'm only going by what the website says, if I click "how to install": https://wavemaker.co.uk/blog/how-to-install-a-pwa/ there's no mention here of it working with Firefox or relevant instructions (same as in the FAQ), and if I go to https://wavemaker.cards/ there's no obvious way of installing it and it's heavily promoting Google Drive.

I'm also not sure it's FOSS, this page makes reference to "Open sourcing the code for the older versions" which seems half-hearted at best and I've not found any code yet.

Even if I'm wrong about all of the above I'm still put-off by the Google-centric focus of it all.

I can't imagine wanting to write a book on my phone though.

Requires Google Chrome, Google Drive? No thanks...

It started as a dislike of Windows 98 for me, extremely unreliable and buggy OS. I didn't switch immediately but that was what got me looking for the alternatives, having fully made the switch around the time of Windows XP. Windows only seems to have got worse since then, stories of advertising, forced updates, etc., I'm glad I never had to deal with that.

Even if there's no good remote out there (I've not looked into it either) I would argue that the drawbacks of not having a remote are vastly less serious than the drawbacks of using one of these "smart" devices.

Is there a reason given why they can't use their current logo?

You can’t simply use any data you find on the street and use it professionally in any field.

I kind of think you should be able to though, copyright laws are already much too strong and outdated with current technology, instead of strengthening them further I think we need to go back to first principles and consider why we need to have permission to record and relay what we see and hear.

he should definitely get paid for it.

Playing devil's advocate a little bit here - are you saying a person's voice is or should be copyrightable? Because it wouldn't be his voice, it's an imitation of his voice, it's an impression.

I'm just not sure this is an area that copyright law needs to be extended in to. I can see a requirement to disclose that it's AI generated being a good idea, but the idea that the likeness of somebody's voice is proprietary I think opens up a much worse can of worms.

That's not true of all of the rest of the world though, you will get great tea in other tea-consuming areas, France is quite low down on that list.

I think steeping is the American English for what in Britain we would call brewing. (S)he is saying you're brewing it too long.

That's interesting, as a British English speaker "your welcome" to my ear sounds quite American - that may be just me. I'd be more likely to say "no problem", "no worries", or "don't worry about it".

Hákarl, the Icelandic fermented shark - while not exactly pleasant the first time, it's nowhere near as bad as people make out.

Ostrich - looks like it would taste like beef, but actually it's more of a strong chicken-like flavour which makes sense really.

I guess you could say horse, but that's common in a lot of places in Europe. Like beef but less flavour, too lean, I'm not a fan.

That would be quite the epiphany.