I like that idea, although I think we need some simpler guides as to what exactly one might he getting into if they’re setting up an instance that’s not just a domain name. (Costs, potential usage blowing up, legal issues with content, etc…)

Also, I really think there needs to be a smoother way to navigate between instances. I guess, so you’re still aware of “jumping nodes”, but also don’t feel locked in there. (Although maybe I’m just a newb still haha)

massive recession. What smart thing do you think were going to do about it?

I remember 2008 like yesterday. “Nobody hiring. Mass layoffs. No jobs.”, and then it seems like that same cycle has just been on regular repeat the rest of our lives up to this point. (Meanwhile, record profits because of course!)

This is what I really worry about. I’m still trying but still on the same treadmill. I’m not a super genius or a heartless grifter, so I don’t really know if I can be clever enough for us to get through this… And that scares the crap out of me.

Had us in the first half, not gonna lie. LOL

I’ve actually considered starting a Friendica or other instance exclusively for friends and family to share pictures and communicate, invite only…

… But even if I managed the insane technical aspects and convinced people to try it, I only fear the mainstream social media giants have already trained them to be their worst selves at this point. I can see the bickering drama threads now, eating up my gigabytes…

I just hate how fragmented and walled the most connected Internet ever is…I felt more connection when I had everyone between Yahoo and MSN Messengers, or took the time to check out friends’ MySpace pages.

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You make plenty of sense here. It’s all about intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation right?

For some reason whenever I tried to excel and take pride in my work or invent small improvements to things, I was either rewarded with nothing but higher expectations without higher compensation, or more often, I was just shut down entirely and told to shut up and get back to grinding.

None of that romanticized “I like your style, kid howabout a raise?” hollywood crap happened to me!

I think people more often than not want to do well, they want to be good at something, get better at it, take pride in their work. Being a complete layabout is exhausting!

But just like you, I got to the point of saving my passion for my own projects, and just doing what’s most visible in the job description to not get fired, because I got real tired of being actively punished for making an effort.

Man I never got around to that one either! Added to the list!

Definitely a bit more meta-parodying of such films, and much more modern sensibilities to the point it’s a little offtopic maybe, but nobody really references the comedic genius of Undercover Brother anymore. That movie is solid gold. Lmao

If you really want to, I sincerely hope you set up your movie theater in some form or another. 🍿😁

Oh my gosh. I remember catching a bit of this one when I was flipping through TV way back when. It was AWESOME!!!

I never got the name though, but I remember it vividly as one of those movies that’s so ridiculous but you can just tell everybody was having a great time hamming it up, and it’s just a fun ride.

So…now The Last Dragon is on my list to give a proper watch hahaha.

If your job can be replaced with GPT, you had a bullshit job to begin with.

This one’s funny to me, because the people who WILL try to replace you with GPT don’t care if they CAN replace you with GPT. They just will.

Look at how it’s haphazardly shoved into everything for no reason whatsoever already.

Oh you dun goof’d now!

Ah, another Poltergeist fan, I see. :p

Ugh, the world of “branded people.” Everything is like “Add a picture of yourself, or you won’t seem trustworthy!”

Yeesh. Some artists and such can make it using a pseudonym, but it’s rare in more professional circles…but now if you hope to be taken seriously as a professional, you’re expected to put your real super genuine self out there.

…and we get news stories of people being harassed and doxxed literally to death. It’s crazy…

Facebook made it almost fashionable to do so.

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Zuck: yea so if you ever need info about anyone at harvard just ask

Zuck: i have over 4000 emails, pictures, addresses, sns

Friend: what!? how’d you manage that one?

Zuck: people just submitted it

Zuck: i don’t know why

Zuck: they “trust me”

Zuck: dumb fucks

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I remember when it was just funny edgy humor that was clearly satirical for the most part because a lot of us were just dumb kids. It was abrasive and stupid but you had this feeling everyone was in on the joke.

But bizarre satire has turned to deeply held conviction.

I’m not just sad that the mean spirited trolling persists, but that it’s gotten more sincere and often must be taken seriously. :(

I would posit a big part of this is because early-net days were primarily for just socializing and sharing cool stuff (heck yeah, I miss it.) Artists probably didn’t make a majority of their living through the 'net. If something was shared it was likely just “I think this is cool, folks!”

Nowadays, to say the Internet is heavily commercialized would be a massive understatement. Every little interaction is monetized. Many people make their entire living through e-commerce. It’s just how things went.

Meanwhile you have a billion faceless sandfleas with repost-botfarms trying to hustle cash with the stupidest methods possible.

You’ll see entire channels where animations or paintings or whatever are circulated on socials like youtube, twitter, or tiktok with the artist tag conveniently cropped out (if there was one).

Some are outright stealing the work for profit (selling tshirts or something), while others are just using it to farm clicks, which is also a route to profit.

The artist who made the work is cheated, perhaps unaware, as some click-grifter gets all the attention. And that sucks. :( As an artist myself, I try to make sure I share the sources for stuff now, because recognition is a form of thanks, at the very least.

I miss the sharing internet…the attention economy has basically turned the internet into a sociological illustration of “The paperclip apocalypse”. :(

I like to think I’m reasonably intelligent but whatever the heck Gmail does with its reply “conversation” order absolutely bamboozles me. It decides to just hide messages in the middle seemingly at random too, and gives them all reply buttons.

Agh!

The same people who carelessly hit “reply all”, I imagine. Lol

This is how I felt about online gameplay too. Someone being a turd? Block em. I still had some GREAT interactions with random players.

But nowadays every online game is dead silent. People are scared of toxicity so they’re all sequestered in separate discord servers. Might as well be playing with bots. =\

…Pretty sick of Discord. Lol.

Hahaha I used to have a shirt from “Jinx” back when they were cool that said “I eat Nøøbs”.

And “Play in your world. Get pwnd in mine.”

Wouldn’t be caught dead in those now. But haha it was amusing in ~2005.

It was a simpler time where a shirt that simply said “gamer” wouldn’t get you socially sneered at.

Been to the Arch forum too ey? :p