God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter
https://www.wired.com/story/god-did-us-a-favor-by-destroying-twitter/
#scale #federation
https://www.wired.com/story/god-did-us-a-favor-by-destroying-twitter/
#scale #federation
God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter
Remember what happened with the Tower of Babel? Same type of deal.Paul Ford (WIRED)
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Nacho
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •#federation #scale
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Katma
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I disagree that Twitter is any kind of town/city square. Healthy local public centers are meeting spots, sites of public buildings (e.g. libraries, school, also free), places for local businesses, etc.
Elon Twitter is more like modern airlines: packed to the gills, understaffed, and prone to service crashes
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •More Friends, Bigger Brain
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in reply to 𒃲𒌋𒅗𒆪𒁉🐜💩 💛 • • •https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780128151341000052
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •"Oh joy, if only the all-knowing Creator had given me a brain capable of retaining more than just 150 fleeting memories of people I barely know. Because clearly, that's all I'm worth.
Dunbar's number? More like Dunce-bar's number, if you ask me. The notion that our social lives are limited by some arbitrary number determined by a long-dead researcher is about as sensible as believing in the tooth fairy."
Noe 🐝✨
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •OldeNaturalist
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •The duties imposed upon even the smallest operators are extremely onerous, and come with significant penalties. Crazy.
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •william.maggos
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I need to read the article but some pretty cool shit needs lots of people, I think. I love big cities. maybe the tradeoffs are not worth it, but I'd probably be bored AF. would we even have bicycles? in small groups, exceptional people struggle harder to find their niche. but I guess hateful people also can't build their armies.
John Samuel
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Simon W 🙄 🆙 ⚛️
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Quitty
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Not every idea changes the world, and I'm just here because it is a better service, for me, at this point in time.
I spent years in ad-tech, and my bottom line is that consensually monetizing humans is better than paywalled access to information. I give Google my ass, they give me a good map service.
The fact they have more money than me has little bearing over that barter.
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Jan Penfrat
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •"The Fediverse apps are all built on a set of rules called the ActivityPub standard, which is a little like HTML had sex with a calendar invite."
-- God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter --
https://www.wired.com/story/god-did-us-a-favor-by-destroying-twitter/
God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Denise
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Rich Felker
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Dan Gillmor
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Discographette's Rerun Era
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •a small town is paradise for the homogenized, hell for the unique. we don't have a homeland when we're queer or trans.
vruz
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •It's true that the inherently human tension between the social and the individual is obviously something that any and all people in the world struggle with.
Just not as hard as US people, who sometimes appear to have been submitted to surgical removal of the organ of socialization off their brains.
CharlieG
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •“Happy people, the kind who eat sandwiches together, are boring. They don’t buy much. Their smartphones are six versions behind and have badly cracked screens. They fix bicycles, then they talk about fixing bicycles, then they show their friend, who just came over for no reason, how they fixed their bicycle, and their friend says, “Wow, good job,” and they make tea. That doesn’t seem like enough to build a town square on.”
Sean Boots
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •JohnW
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Attempting to monetize me will have me trying to un-monetize you.
Hervé Renault
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Cory Doctorow
Unknown parent • • •xarxa
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •so true though
Crowley :verifiedbi:
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •#scale #federation
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in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Don Cooley
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •I get them donated and I donate them.
I'm replacing our privacy fence using salvaged wood from the old one that i built using salvaged wood from an even older one. I used screws, not nails 30 years ago so i dismantled it by removing screws, which I am reusing.
I'm probably wearing the same jeans i wore then.
Monetize me, billionaires - I dare ya!