For example some counties have free public transport, in part because it's better for the economy as a whole. That wouldn't make sense if public transport is privately owned.
I hate the notion that fringe lunatics have opinions that are just as valuable as anyone else's. Push that fucking Overton Window back to somewhere sane. We do need people shutting these disruptive idiots down. The answer is not just to act like they're not there.
I guess the problem was and always is, when there’s too many people, it ruins things.
This is the thing when people talk about the Fediverse's traffic compared to Reddit. To me it's very much a feature. I don't think trying to get everyone and their dog on the same platform is a particularly good idea!
Yeah, I get a bit of it through Mastodon and I've been to a meetup there which was delightful (Jeff Minter bought me fish & chips!). I think a bit more emphasis on user profiles (bigger avatars, signatures, stuff like that) would help a lot.
I've run forums and been part of them. At the moment I don't really have time but I expect I will again in future. I keep using stuff like Lemmy but it just doesn't make my brain happy like forums did.
The asynchronous nature of them helped a great deal. Here I feel like threads have a lifespan of a day or two at most. I don't want to have to engage immediately in order to take part.
I also don't like the whole upvote/downvote thing. I'm good at it but it colours every interaction in a way I find deeply problematic.
They took out H264 hardware support?