I'm enjoying Bluesky too, but yeah, reddit sucks so much since the API changes. When was that?
I don't even remember anymore.
Look, we debated all this a decade ago. Can venture funded social media stay good? Now we know! Back then, the alternatives were more difficult to find and use. Lemmy and mastodon are here, and they're so easy. It's great. Keep building.
Feel like his handle 'the functional melancholic' is almost too apt.
It is a cynical view he reports, though with a relatively uplifting message. It's funny, despite the misanthropic presentation, the strongest emotion that came across for me was earnestness.
Is it worth watching? That depends. If you are in a place where you feel miserable about the state of the world, particularly America, which you have every right to be! Then yeah it is worth your time (sped up, he talks slow) because it is a message of encouragement.
A Cryptocurrency reporter, born in 1994, lost $200,000 when Celsius went bankrupt. Her post about that went viral. Later she interviewed SBF while he was under house arrest. She disclosed some of the records he shared with her to the NYT.
This is what I'm excited about. My parents are in the market for new laptops, I'm going to see if they will take a framework running popOS and make the switch to Linux. It's incredible that this option is now so approachable.
I was always wary about reddit being a non-opensource/non-federated platform. But the communities there were incredible. I remember when it really was like the 'front page of the internet'. But I could not believe the user unfriendly decisions they made, and the app ban was the death-knell.
Besides, Lemmy is awesome! Not much need to go back.
I'm so inspired by the Fediverse, the social options we have these days are just magical.
A decade ago, Diaspora got press because they were going to build an alternative to Facebook. But there was hype and then there was disappointment.
Now, everybody knows how terrible legacy social media is. Everybody knows. Sure, most people are still stuck there. But these vibrant alternative places exist! The options are exciting! It is so much better than it's ever been!
Just keep building. This is great, and it's only just started.
I've always thought it was a very modern horror story how sweets for children are made from gelatin, from animal death, basically.
I still eat them though.
Relevant video: https://vimeo.com/180163754