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naught101

@ naught101 @lemmy.world

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I'm a climate scientist by trade. Interested in interesting things. Ecology, complexity, politics, social change, music.

  • The Social Network That Can't Sell Out: Understanding Mastodon vs. Bluesky

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  • The mastodon is not a platform though, it's a protocol/standard and the software to run it. Individual mastodon services/platforms will come and go. I think if they become too much of a product (and enshittify), then people will leave, because they can without much pain.

  • The Social Network That Can't Sell Out: Understanding Mastodon vs. Bluesky

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  • Still useful to post though, it's a decent simple over view that can be shared elsewhere

  • The Social Network That Can't Sell Out: Understanding Mastodon vs. Bluesky

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  • Twitter is the first time a global social media giant has seen a major exodus (I guess the second if you count MySpace, but the reasons were pretty different). The sample size is very low.. It's easy to forget how new all of this is.

  • The Social Network That Can't Sell Out: Understanding Mastodon vs. Bluesky

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  • Why are you on Lemmy? Or, why do you think the decentralised model works here, but not on mastodon?

    Or is it only working because there is no third party VC-backed reddit clone?

  • The Social Network That Can't Sell Out: Understanding Mastodon vs. Bluesky

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  • I don't think anyone is claiming technical superiority. And certainly not financial superiority.

    But maybe some kind of resilience to the forces of destruction plaguing commercial social media.

  • What's something that's free that everyone should know about?

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  • Hah, I used kdenlive in like 2008 to make a 3 minute clip out of a bunch of pre existing material. It was buggy as hell, and crashed every 5-10 operations. But I just saved a lot and got it done. Glad to see it's still going (and presumably a lot more stable!)

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    What's the worst way to use statistics?

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  • 99.7% of general questions about statistics have this same joke at least once in the replies

  • Good courses that teach how to draw for people who can’t draw?

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  • I don't really remember, I guess that wasn't a problem for me. Do you mean the left brain/right brain thing? I think I just treated that as metaphorical...

  • Good courses that teach how to draw for people who can’t draw?

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  • Good to find out you're right, huh? 😁

    Of course there are still lots of technique related skills to learn too, but this is by far the biggest boost I ever got.

  • Good courses that teach how to draw for people who can’t draw?

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  • I'll be honest, I didn't make it all the way through, but the core concepts are explained well on the first few chapters, and some of the early exercises are good enough to give a pretty deep understanding of how it works. The two exercises that really hit home for me were the one where you re-draw the line drawing of the man, and then do it again upside down;, and the excerise where you draw the empty shapes between and around a chair.

  • Good courses that teach how to draw for people who can’t draw?

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  • Get yourself a copy of Betty Edwards' Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain. Her main point is that drawing isn't your problem, seeing is, because the logical component of the brain gets in the way of the visual cortex, and wants to draw symbols for things, instead of the actual shapes and shades. The book is packed with exercises that will flip your brain into understanding how to see. Then it's just a matter of practice, but it feels a lot less daunting then, because it also gives you the tools to better critique your own drawings constructively.

  • Does anyone feel like "Hot" is like "New" in a trenchcoat?

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  • It's a post sorting option on your instance home page. I basically sorts by recent activity, but normalised by community size, so if something gets 10 upvotes on a community with 100 users it will be pushed much higher than a post with 10 upvotes from a community with 2k users

  • Does anyone feel like "Hot" is like "New" in a trenchcoat?

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  • Oh, I mostly use it with subscribed, not all, perhaps that's the difference?

  • If you could explain to your 19 year old self what you are doing with your life today, what would they say?

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  • That sucks dude. I hope some change shows up for you at some point.

  • Does anyone feel like "Hot" is like "New" in a trenchcoat?

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  • Use Scaled, it's awesome. Much better visibility on small communities, so less dominated with samey news.

  • If you could explain to your 19 year old self what you are doing with your life today, what would they say?

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  • If you could explain to your 19 year old self what you are doing with your life today, what would they say?

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  • Ooh yeah.. I as lucky enough to have a parent with back pain, so paid attention early on how to avoid it. Still got a sore back though 🥲

  • If you could explain to your 19 year old self what you are doing with your life today, what would they say?

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  • Damn, I really should have thought about these responses before I posted this question. My inbox is flooded with comments that are kinda anxiety inducing, until I remember the context 😂

  • Books to read for a beginner atheist

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  • I was also an atheist, but moved more towards some kind of materialistic animism (I'm aware that doesn't sound like it makes sense).

    Eastern philosophy has some cool stuff in it, I need to read some more of it.

    Also: I fucking love your username. Excellent work.