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naught101

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

  • When was the last time some, crazy, random, extremely well produced, content like "Kung Fury" happened?

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  • Yeah. There's not a missed punch in it politically either. Some of the best satire I've seen in ages. His other film, Force Majeure is also great.

  • When was the last time some, crazy, random, extremely well produced, content like "Kung Fury" happened?

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  • When was the last time some, crazy, random, extremely well produced, content like "Kung Fury" happened?

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  • Oh yeah, that whole thing is creepy as fuck. But very well made.

  • When was the last time some, crazy, random, extremely well produced, content like "Kung Fury" happened?

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  • I think Triangle Of Sadness fits this bill pretty well. Certainly one of my all time favourite films. Maybe a little less silly-absurd, but the real-absurdness makes up for it, and has bite.

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    How many fediverse instances have you signed up for?

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  • I have 3 mastodon accounts, for different purposes. One personal, one more work focused, and one parody

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    • Necromancer by William Gibson gripped me hard.
    • anything by Terry Pratchett. Hard to choose, but probably Feet Of Clay.
    • anything by Ursula Le Guin, probably The Dispossessed.

    Probably forgetting a few, those would all be in my top 5 though

  • Why Lemmy is so superior to Reddit: No Karma, Just Value Content

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  • Right, thanks. Still a super useful system, IMO, though I'm sure better versions are possible.

  • Why Lemmy is so superior to Reddit: No Karma, Just Value Content

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  • That's true, but it's gotta be balanced by limiting the fallout of extreme cases on other users

  • Why Lemmy is so superior to Reddit: No Karma, Just Value Content

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  • It doesn't accumulate and display anywhere though, does it?

  • Why Lemmy is so superior to Reddit: No Karma, Just Value Content

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  • Maybe. They might also mean you're an idiot.

    Slashdot used to have a multidimensional voting system that would allow you to up or down vote something based on whether it was funny/insightful/correct, etc (can't remember the dimension). I wish we had something like that. Sometimes it would be useful to mark a comment as "funny, but also wrong"

  • Why Lemmy is so superior to Reddit: No Karma, Just Value Content

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  • There ate multiple algorithms, but I don't think any of them account for both votes and comments.. I might be wrong though.

    Tangent: the "scaled* algorithm, which normalises post ranks by the popularity of the community they're posted to, is excellent. I recommend everyone use it as their default.

  • Open source software for library of things?

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  • I would guess that at least some library software would have the ability to track maintenance needs or at leat damage state. But yeah, maybe not the periodic stuff.

  • Open source software for library of things?

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  • Oh. That sounds less like a library and more like a hire service.

  • How should we approach taxing the wealthy in a practical manner?

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  • Open source software for library of things?

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  • I guess you only really need to be able to add pictures, maybe a barcode, and time tracking, right? None of that's book specific.

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    What is stopping corporations from hijacking the Fediverse by hosting massive servers?

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  • Most by number of users, I'd guess.

    I'm on mastodon.social, and basically never see threads posts.

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    What is stopping corporations from hijacking the Fediverse by hosting massive servers?

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  • I suspect the distributed moderation will help in the long run too.

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    What is stopping corporations from hijacking the Fediverse by hosting massive servers?

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  • Most of the core mastodon servers haven't blocked threads..

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    What is stopping corporations from hijacking the Fediverse by hosting massive servers?

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    1. Disruption: Probably ethics? I mean, I know big global businesses barely have any, but they do care about their reputation somewhat. Anyone running a botnet to destroy small/medium fediverse servers would be discovered fairly quickly, I suspect. Nothing is going to stop AI training scraping outside of regulation, I suspect.
    2. Ads are enshittification. Federation is defense against it, because it prevents vendor lock-in and allows migration while maintaining your network effect. Threads already tried to join, and nearly nothing of theirs gets through. I'm on a mainstream mastodon service that doesn't block threads, and I've seen a threads post only once or twice. Threads can't display their add on my service, so there's no incentive for them to push content.