Thank you for this.

Any particular tutorials you recommend for setting up a first fediverse server?

Thank you.

This has been a lot of help.

Thank you for giving me your opinion.

I will try to have an open mind about it going forward.

I am happy with loops for now though. No longer having the algorithm I don’t miss it. I don’t miss 7 ads per hour, all of them for jedi pajamas or dhubai chocolate that costs $50 per bar.

Any specific things you think I should prioritize first and then build out from?

I do like the idea of a federated passport essentially, where your subdomain acts as verification it is you.

Thanks for the response. Realistically what am I looking at if I want to do a weekly blog post, and then mostly only posting comments on the various service?

I figure if it is possible to have the actual website not publicly visible, sort of like everything is behind a paywall, but everything behind that pay wall still gets posted to the various services, this just preventing website traffic.

Incredibly happy I got season 3 of Twin Peaks.

You were a gem, David.

I get that it is the most organic thing you have ever felt, but that should be itself something that makes you raise an eyebrow.

A foreign language service that does not cater to you, in a language you don’t speak, and theoretically has none of your prior data is perfectly catering a social media experience tailored individually to you, and doing it on a level that no corporation who has been targeting and grooming you for 20 years has been able to achieve.

Either your comment itself is inorganic and mere advertising promising impossibilities, or you are a genuine person offering such extreme praise but we need to be skeptical here.

You aren’t saying the app is good. You are saying it is the best experience you have ever been provided, and if that is the case, this app has some explaining to do on how they achieved that.

Genuine or not, your thoughts on the matter are weird, so weird that it becomes hard to even respond to.

From the article somebody further up posted up, rednote has had about half a million downloads from app stores in the US.

TikTok’s US consumer base is about 136 million if my memory of what was said on NPR a couple mornings ago is accurate.

While I am sure that number will be growing, a lot of the feeling of everybody moving to redhorse appears to be astroturfing.

Like… they had a 50,000 person live event that sounds awfully a lot like like a recruitment seminar/product orientation.

This isn’t organic.

Meta has replaced third places, public square and community directories and then sells that access to other media.

It is a conflict of interest for the community directors themselves to profiting off things which harm the community.

To the best of my knowledge, Mastodon does not have that conflict of interest.

I don’t think we know the full extent.

He meant just sn.

Facebook at that time was not collecting social security numbers (nor are they currently, I don’t believe.

The sad fact of money is its only worth something the moment it leaves your hands.

I’m not looking at 99% pit bull attack videos though on YouTube.

Now, everybody has a different search results targeted directly to them by Google. If Google is only showing you pit bull attacks, it’s because they decided that is the content you are willing to engage with.

And seeing that you create accounts to argue 8 month old comments that are defending pit bulls, it seems pretty clear that Google has assumed correctly about you.

To be clear, people who advocate for the extermimation of all bully breeds are not claiming that pitbulls account for 99% of all attacks.

So right out of the gate you have decided to make the point you are “debating” more extreme than the most extreme right wing nutcases already part of the conversation.

Better luck rage baiting somebody else. Maybe start out reasonable and then ramp up the insanity slowly instead of coming out of the gate so hot next time.

…the US is not closer to the UK than Ireland though…

Traditional media was nothing like this. It wasn’t so granular, it couldn’t create individual realities for individual users.

The websites we use have the power to determine whether we believe in genocides or not or if we know the civics of our own community.

I deleted the app the day the day they implemented this. The podcast they started playing was a 30 minute podcast advertising mattress firm or sleep country.

That’s 3.5 grams in the photo.

Where Did the rest go, officer?

The batteries on most of those cheap disposables are essentially done for by the time the juice runs out.

By day 7 a full charge gets maybe 20-30 puffs.

Without these products the market probably wouldn’t be as flooded with cheap rechargeable batteries that only last about 10 days.

Bytedance will likely start opening up enough to allow people to develop readers.

I dont think they intend to shrink their sphere of influence.