Not how the union works. But thanks for trying.

Found the guy who never worked a union job.

Reality doesn’t care whether you care to play or not.

There’s a limited amount of resources, you can’t hire everyone on Earth, you can’t give everyone an unlimited salary. Everything past that you’re making decisions as to who gets what.

And by the way, if you make enough poor decisions eventually everyone loses their jobs.

Its a very true dichotomy.

Hey let’s hire Ashok for this position! He’s really good!

Oops, sorry. Bob Whiteman has been here for 30 years. He’s just good enough not to fire but he has seniority so he gets first dibs on the job.

Hey, let’s give Ashok a raise! He’s really good!

Oops, sorry. Bob Whiteman has been here for 30 years. He’s just good enough not to fire. It he’s been here the longest so he gets paid the most.

The false dichotomy is assuming your choices are a massive adversarial bureaucracy or not making a living wage.

That doesn’t have anything to do with what I said.

Do you want to pay people more because they’re better at their job or do you want to pay people more because they’ve been warming a chair longer than anyone else?

A creepy looking billionaire isn’t totally in charge of ActivityPub and can’t get more power out of politicians by lending favors to them using it.

It’s important to remember that not every litre of water is the same as every other liter of water.

It’s really important to watch water use if you’re using groundwater in Texas or California, but water is a renewable resource in many places and it isn’t a problem to use water as long as it’s properly managed. For example if you remove water from a river, purify it, use it for something benign like cooling making sure not to add anything to it, process it so you’re not impacting the ecosystem, then return it to the same river, then you’ve used water, but you didn’t really consume anything.

On the other hand, if you polute that water, or you damage local ecosystems, or if you’re pulling water out of non-renewable sources, that’s a problem. Environmentalism must be local, there are few universal answers.

Imo the only web 3 is the fediverse et al

I feel like these are just establishment hit pieces. They do it every time to up and coming platforms…

Not to mention, It isn’t a given that they win.

I ANAL 😏 but in order to claim their fees are excessive, I’d expect that the plaintiffs would need to show that they are substantially higher than fees in other circumstances. I don’t think 15-20% is unusual for other software stores, including the google play store which has a number of competitors on android, or steam on PC which also has a number of competitors on PC.

The logo change has brought out a new wave of articles and tweets about it, and people go “oh no that’s right I’m on twitter! Well THIS is the final straw! Thank goodness there were all these hate articles and tweets that reminded me I was supposed to be angry!”

Also, many of the people who “jump ship” are right back on Twitter within a week. mastodon.social has an entire graveyard of celebrity accounts that haven’t been posted to in months because the outraged celebrities just went back to twitter.

I’m happy for Mastodon (I run a fediverse instance and the more users there are the more chances of interesting people and the like), and some of those people do realize they like the vibe more and stay, and a lot of those bumps are significant for the platform. The thing is, we’re talking a few hundred thousand, maybe a million accounts of 200 million daily active users on twitter.

The evidence really doesn’t bear that out. Twitter has lost some people, but there are plenty of people still on there. What I keep on seeing is people saying that they’re leaving twitter, they might even deactivate their accounts, and then they’re back on it a little while later. It reminds me of when kathy griffin used her dead mothers account to bypass her twitter ban. They’re just addicted.

Incidentally, griffin created a mastodon account and hasn’t posted in months, and I strongly suspect her (locked down) Twitter is active.

There is, but they’d have to actually put the twitter crack pipe down for that, and a lot of them talk a good game right up until it’s time to actually do it.

I would be better for the world if they did.

You need to break up to be considered an ex, and most Twitter users aren’t going anywhere (or they would have 8 months ago)

Almost guaranteed that’s what it is.

A modern serial attached SCSI drive. It’s been a standard on servers for years.

I think Musk is just living out his 90s/2000s edgelord fantasy. “I AM THE OWNER OF X. X IS EVERYTHING… TO THE XTREME!”

I feel like any time you’re on establishment media, it’s all just an ad for the billionaires who own and control the outlets.

To me, the biggest problem with Matrix is that Synapse and Dendrite are both really heavy. I use an alternative server called Matrix Conduit that’s more like an xmpp server in how light it is. Only problem then is that Conduit doesn’t have that many resources so it’s always a few steps back from Synapse or Dendrite.

This would be bad, no doubt.