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Emperor , 19 days ago

This seems to be sleazy conmen faking interactions with women to convince wannabe pick-up artists to pay for their app. It's like some new circle of Hell.

Emperor , 18 days ago

If you are an open-minded cis dude who respects women and sees them as equal human beings you’ll have no problem finding anyone.

It's not always that simple. For example, I cared for my Dad 24/7 which involved a convoluted pill regime (and a series of alarms throughout the day). My social life took a real hit. There are also mental and physical health issues, as well as financial aspects.

All that said, anyone thinking this is the solution deserves to be scammed because it is hardly informed consent.

Emperor , 18 days ago

Really the only trick they missed was turning it into a pyramid scheme but that might sneak in if you use the app a lot, although imagine the "success rate" on this is abysmal and a lot of users will drop out quickly.

Emperor , 17 days ago

My point was that cishet men may have it hard to find someone because they are not catching up with progressive and emancipatory values.

It's worse than that - things seem to be regressing, with a widening political divide between men and women, especially noticeable in the younger adults.

It definitely feels like the modest progress that was made is now being eroded away

Emperor , 17 days ago

And being antifeminist doesn’t even benefit them that much.

The only people benefitting are those peddling the lies to disgruntled young men, partly as a grift and partly as misdirection from the real sources of their issues.

But at the same time I don’t see how much people who are not cis men can do so much to really help them.

And it shouldn't be your job to fix young men but I am as stumped as you and I worry about people like my nephew who is early teens.

There's !mensliberation but I don't know if that's not just preaching to the converted.

Emperor , 19 days ago

“If you’re driving a truck today,” he said, “my expectation is you’re going to be able to retire driving a truck.”

Probably true as it will take a while for them to ramp the numbers up to cover the shortage in truck drivers, and they'll still need drivers for that last mile (as these trucks work best going between depots on freeways) but how long will being a truck driver be a viable occupation? When it's one of the biggest areas of employment, can everyone transition to other logistical jobs, as suggested by the article?

Emperor , 19 days ago

I read somewhere that the largest class of jobs in half the US states was truck driver and it's high in most other places (that article says 600k). They are likely to be the first sector almost wiped out by AI, followed by call centre workers and a lot of the legal profession. Good luck reskilling all those people. Here in the UK, call centres were often opened in areas of low employment, so we'll see a lot of the already decimated old industrial areas hollowed out.

Emperor , 20 days ago

Realistically, platforms on the fedi are much closer in design to their commercial conterparts than one would hope for if your goal was community building and situating the process of digital/online community building within the community themselves.

It's still relatively early days yet. A lot of Fediverse services mimic commercial ones because it makes it an easier pitch to people "it's like that but open and privacy-respecting". Hopefully, as they mature they'll evolve away from this. In addition, now more people are comfortable with the Fediverse they'll start to create new and unique platforms.

Emperor OP , 25 days ago

Fait question, as I am an Admin on feddit.uk.

My thinking is that I try and keep the communities I start on feddit.uk to UK specific ones or ones that have a UK angle. If it's more general, like sleep paralysis, I will put it on lemmy.world as the largest general instance (for example: !categoryiii). If it was on a specific topic I might fish round for an instance that covers the topic (no film or Star Wars instances are holding me back from that at the moment).

Emperor OP , 25 days ago

Cheers. 👍

Emperor OP , 24 days ago

Yes, I should spread the love a bit more but currently only have a l.w alt. If a film focused instance started, I'd probably move some communities off here to there, as long as I was sure it was here to stay (the last one went down when the person running it disappeared).

Emperor , 24 days ago

I'll take that and raise you a wifi9.

Emperor , 25 days ago

!genealogy

Emperor , 1 month ago

I'm not sure it's new guy syndrome - he's got two legal cases on the go with, apparently, very little to back it up:

Goziker worked at TikTok for only six months. He didn’t hold a senior position inside the company. His lawsuit, and a second one he filed in March against several US government agencies, makes a number of improbable claims. He asserts that he was put under 24-hour surveillance by TikTok and the FBI while working remotely in Mexico. He claims that US attorney general Merrick Garland, director of national intelligence Avril Haines, and other top officials “wickedly instigated” his firing. And he states that the FBI helped the CIA share his private information with foreign governments. The suits do not appear to include evidence for any of these claims.

No at a minimum that has to make people wonder if he's an unbiased source at a minimum and it should make lawmakers at least stop to consider how reliable a witness he is.

Emperor , 2 months ago

Also beers.

Emperor , 2 months ago

Synchronicity!

Emperor , 2 months ago

¡Muchas gracias!

Emperor , 2 months ago

I started a post along these lines on !ibis. I, personally, think this will be the killer application for Ibis.

Emperor , 2 months ago

We had a bunch of Japanese teenagers run scripts on their computers and half the Fediverse was full of spam. If someone really cared about spamming, this shit wouldn’t stop as quickly.

The upside of that attack is that instance Admins had to raise their game and now most of the big instances are running anti-spam bots and sharing intelligence. Next time we'll be able to move quickly and shut it all down, where this time we were rather scrambling to catch up. Then the spammers will evolve their attack and we'll raise our game again.

Emperor , 2 months ago

Unlike the author, I don’t think that the internet is dying, but instead entering a new phase that resembles in some aspects the old internet: search has become unreliable and those mega-platforms enshittify themselves to death, so people shift to smaller (often non-commercial) platforms and find new content to follow by the hyperlinks provided by other people. It’s a lot like the internet before Google Search.

It is definitely feeling like this is a trend, we are moving back to more curated ways of sharing information.

The Fediverse feels like a return to the old, open Web before it was captured by Big Tech, just with new bells and whistles attached. With all the enshittification, it seems like it is well-placed to be the solution to the problem. It's not there yet but it's a start.

Emperor , 2 months ago

I agree with you on most levels, but I think the author is leaving it more up to developers to develop a site that brings back RSS feeds and newsletters to the masses.

I've been mulling over the idea of a Fediverse RSS reader (Feediverse?) that would run alongside other services. Lemmy is a link aggregator and having an RSS reader plug-in on the same instance would make sharing links across pretty seamless.

It would also help address issues like not being able to follow people on Lemmy as you could have a "follow" link that punts the individual's RSS feed over to the reader.

Emperor , 2 months ago

I don’t know if you read the entire transcript, but I bolded what I think you might want to see:

Thanks for flagging that up, there is a lot there beyond just RSS readers and I have been merrily noting down bits that touch on my broader concerns. They mention it early on: "the deterioration of the open web" of which the sidelining of RSS readers is a symptom (after Google Reader died, I migrated to Feedly and have tries some FOSS alternatives but it isn't the same, partly because the Web isn't the same but also I am wary about going all in on a service that could be bought up and/or die at someone else's whims. Why I am looking for Fediverse solutions). With the rise of Big Tech and their social media companies, it felt like all the utopian dreams and energy were funneled into walled gardens and, at the time, that seemed an acceptable compromise to help get the waves of new users online with free and convenient platforms available to help ease them into web life. It's only with the enshittification of social media that it has become clear that it wasn't worth it.

That's why I am enthusiastic about the Fediverse as it feels like the more natural evolution of the web - as if some clever soul had come along and looked at all the forums and blogs then asked "what if they could talk to each other?" And it's good but it could do better and the things they discuss on their are key - curation and allowing people with niche interests to discover each other. I've been kicking around a few ideas like this for a while on here (most recently a federated Delicious, Fedilicious, which would integrate well with a Fediverse as the latter pumps content in and the former shares and categorises the various links that get discovered) and am now putting in a bit more focus to take notes as I go. So, in that respect, that article was very useful for thinking more broadly on the issue, and raising RSS readers as a good option (newsletters might have to wait).

Emperor , 2 months ago

Might as well call it Kilmister too.

Well done!

Emperor , 2 months ago

I like it.

Tags solve a few problems:

• they add context to posts and we all want a semantic web
• they would allow people to find posts and content across the Fediverse where, despite ActivityPub) it can be difficult finding material between different services. One click of a tag and we can see posts on, cfir example, Stonehenge on Lemmy, Mastodon, Pixelfed, PeerTube, BookWyrm, etc or multi-tag to see only selfies taken there or news or scientific articled, etc.

Most people would just do this anyway if available (I always run fine-grained categorisation where available) but gamify it you get a lot better coverage, especially if people can tag other people's posts, and the coverage would be a lot more comprehensive.

Fediseer would seem like a good hub for this but there's nothing stopping a FediTag or FediHub springing up or you could federate it, so there'd be lots of instances - lemmy.world could run tag.lemmy.world and all the tags on l.w would point to it. It may even be possible for various services to bundle this in, so all tags are "local" and your, for example, l.w account gives you an account on the l.w FediTag instance so you can follow them, get notifications of new posts, etc.

Sorry, just thinking outloud but I like it even more.

Emperor OP , 2 months ago

It's a little known fact that the pretzel was invented in Staffordshire after some dough got caught up and knotted in a pottery wheel.

Emperor OP , 2 months ago

It is (k)not.

Emperor OP , 3 months ago

I'm not sure even they do a 2 litre mug.

Emperor OP , 3 months ago

That's exactly the kind of post we are looking for!

Emperor OP , 3 months ago

I started the community after the Saltgate uproar died down or it would get nasty quick.

Emperor OP , 3 months ago

Nope, it's all out war now for tea supremacy.

Emperor , 2 months ago

Bit late to this one but see a more recent discussion:

https://feddit.uk/post/8910736