I never knew who I was. I still don't know who I am. It doesn't matter anyway.
As far as I'm aware, archaeology (specifically Assyriology and Egyptology) point to independent origins of writing systems (the writing as we know it): Sumerians and their cuneiforms, ancient Egyptians and their hieroglyphs. Even though, as far as I'm aware, Sumerians seem to have been the first ones to ever write, before Egyptians independently did it too, therefore Sumerians seem to be the pioneers of writing.
Having said this, how tragically ironic it is, as if the uncaring Cosmos got a sadistic sense of humour, the fact that the pioneer of writing is unknown even through the means of their own creation. It's as if the WWW lacked any hypertext files containing the substring "Tim Berners-Lee", or if every radio communication ever propagated across the EM field lacked any modulated signal, analog or digital, that would demodulate to "Guglielmo Marconi".
We don't know the name or history of the person who first wrote, nor we know to whom they were writing to (must've been a solitary endeavour, scratching some arrows on a clay when nobody else will understand it), nor we know what they wrote first (everybody knows the infamous "We the people" USian trope, and some nerds like me know how the first text transmitted between computers was "LO" as in truncated "HELLO", but the first Cuneiform text ever was lost to entropy and decay).
We don't even need to go that far, though. Do we know the names and life stories for ALL people who died from COVID-19? Surely we can find online and offline registers for several of them, but even the World Health Organization can't tell precisely how many people died from COVID-19, let alone who exactly they were. And it's been mere 6 years ago, when The Internet as we know it was already so ubiquitous! Now imagine The Plague? Or the dinosaurs, who simply got transmuted into fuel we use for our noisy metallic apparata with no regard for their own individual life stories from a time when they were gigantic living beings?
Thing is: we, living beings, humans and whatnot, we're infinitesimally nothing before the mercilessness of the infinite cosmic entropy, decay and Death, for She can and She will erase us just as She's already slowly erasing our biological existences as we speak (we know this as "apoptosis", "aging", etc, to which, sorry to remind the techno-gnostics who crave for "immortality", that nothing can excel Her, not even the universe which, despite being so big in such a manner we have no idea how mind-bogglingly big it is, is also going to cease someday, too).
But, hey, humans must leave a legacy, conquer the cosmos and avoid Death Herself (whether we, as flesh-and-bones entities, would get past the insurmountable Cosmic Great Filter, before another Great Reset happens in this cosmic vicinity, something that not even "powerful" hominids with red buttons at their disposal could even prevent or stop from happening, is a whole other story)! To infinite and beyond we must! :)
@DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works @nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
I don't only feel, I know it. Not just me: you, everyone here, all humans, living beings, every cosmic stuff. And there are scientific, psychological, spiritual, philosophical and political explanations.
When it comes to Science, our actions are just a byproduct of causality within a dynamic, closed system, an organism constrained by laws of physics from which the principles of chemical reactions emerge. If we were to stick to a strict, Dawkinsian Science, we're no different than other dynamic systems across the universe. It's all physical causality devoid of meaning.
In psychology, if Theory of Mind is to be considered, the mind is also a byproduct of all conditions in which the being existed and exists. I like to cite Derren Brown and his works, especially "The Push", which perfectly illustrates how a person can be fooled by social compliance (I'm not just referring to the main plot where a person is brought into a gala auction and woven into a web of deception that leads them into murdering someone by pushing them from a rooftop, I'm also referring to the selection process where the candidates are tricked into standing or sitting at the ring of a bell). I also nod to the ending scene of The Artifice Girl where Cherry, in a talk with her creator, complains about how every choice of hers are inexorably bound to her initial directives. I could also nod to Freud and to how superego and id are fated to conflict through ego.
In spirituality, Gnosticism explains how matter is a prison crafted by Demiurge (Yaodabaoth) so Archons can siphon and feed from our suffering. Luciferianism and other LHP traditions seek to fight the tyrannical order of Demiurge and the Archons aligned to him, who are seen by Abrahamic as "The Father (sic) and his angels". The Calvinist Christianity emphasizes the biblical verse "before I formed ye in the womb, I knew ye" (Jeremiah 1:5). Some religions, especially ancient, feature a counterpoint to this order/god, the Primordial Chaos/Darkness/Goddess (e.g. Taoist Yin, Sumerian Ereshkigal). Freemasonry's "Ordo ab Chao" is a spiritual flavor of the scientific Big-Bang/Hadean Eon, where order emerges from this primordial chaos.
Philosophically, our senses deceive us (Descartes) but those very senses is the way we learn and become, we're wolves to ourselves (Hobbes), society is inherently evil and corrupts its peers (Rousseau) as we're prone to becoming the very monsters we vowed to fight against (Nietzsche): all of which are kind of pre-established principles ruling us, individually and socially.
Politically, capitalism needs no introduction on how it compels us to be a disposable cog in a machine whose lines "must go up". But this doesn't make other systems (communism, socialism, etc) less evil: every form of authority is a megaphone for all evilness inherent to us humans.
Even this reply of mine was predetermined, spiritually, physically, socially.
@Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com @memes@sopuli.xyz
I wonder if their spiraling is clockwise or counterclockwise depending on the hemisphere (Coriolis effect)... What if they do this exactly at the equator line (e.g. exactly at the Marco Zero from Brazilian Macapá)? So many questions...
@Jayjader@jlai.lu @technology@lemmy.world
Given how it's very akin to dynamic and chaotic systems (e.g. double pendulum, whose initial position, mass and length rules the movement of the pendulum, very similar to how the initial seed and input rule the output of generative AIs) due to the insurmountable amount of physically intertwined factors and the possibility of generalizing the system in mathematical, differential terms, I'd say that the more fit would be a physicist. Or a mathematician. lol
As always, relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/435/
@rimu@piefed.social @technology@lemmy.world
Thanks, didn't know about that one. It seems interesting (but limited, according to their "Pricing" ; every time a tool has a "pricing" menu item, betcha they'll either be anything but gratis or extremely limited in their "free tier"), I created an account and I'll soon try it with some of the occult poetry I use to write. I'm ND so I'm fully aware of how my texts often sound like AI slop.
@JuvenoiaAgent@piefed.ca @technology@lemmy.world
Often, those are developers who "specialized" in one or two programming languages, without specializing in computer/programming logic.
I used to repeat a personal saying across job interviews: "A good programmer knows a programming language. An excellent programmer knows programming logic". IT positions often require a dev to have a specific language/framework in their portfolio (with Rust being the Current Thing™ now) and they reject people who have vast experience across several languages/frameworks but the one required, as if these people weren't able to learn the specific language/framework they require.
Languages and framework differ on syntax, namings, paradigms, sometimes they're extremely different from other common languages (such as (Lisp (parenthetic-hell)), or
.asciz "Assembly-x86_64"), but they all talk to the same computer logic under the hood. Once a dev becomes fluent in bitwise logic (or, even better, they become so fluent in talking with computers that they can say41 53 43 49 49 20 63 6f 64 65without tools, as if it were English), it's just a matter of accustoming oneself to the specific syntax and naming conventions from a given language.Back when I was enrolled in college, I lost count of how many colleagues struggled with the entire course as soon as they were faced by Data Structure classes, binary trees, linked lists, queues, stacks... And Linear Programming, maximization and minimization, data fitness... To the majority of my colleagues, those classes were painful, especially because the teachers were somewhat rigid.
And this sentiment echoes across the companies and corps. Corps (especially the wannabe-programmer managers) don't want to deal with computers, they want to deal with consumers and their sweet money, but a civil engineer and their masons can't possibly build a house without willing to deal with a blueprint and the physics of building materials. This is part of the root of this whole problem.
@LiveLM@lemmy.zip @rimu@piefed.social
This!
Also, the irony: those are AI tools used by anti-AI people who use AI to try and (roughly) determine if a content is AI, by reading the output of an AI. Even worse: as far as I know, they're paid tools (at least every tool I saw in this regard required subscription), so Anti-AI people pay for an AI in order to (supposedly) detect AI slop. Truly "AI-rony", pun intended.
@AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world @technology@lemmy.world
I used to deal with programming since I was 9 y.o., with my professional career in DevOps starting several years later, in 2013. I dealt with lots of other's code, legacy code, very shitty code (especially done by my "managers" who cosplayed as programmers), and tons of technical debts.
Even though I'm quite of a LLM power-user (because I'm a person devoid of other humans in my daily existence), I never relied on LLMs to "create" my code: rather, what I did a lot was tinkering with different LLMs to "analyze" my own code that I wrote myself, both to experiment with their limits (e.g.: I wrote a lot of cryptic, code-golf one-liners and fed it to the LLMs in order to test their ability to "connect the dots" on whatever was happening behind the cryptic syntax) and to try and use them as a pair of external eyes beyond mine (due to their ability to "connect the dots", and by that I mean their ability, as fancy Markov chains, to relate tokens to other tokens with similar semantic proximity).
I did test them (especially Claude/Sonnet) for their "ability" to output code, not intending to use the code because I'm better off writing my own thing, but you likely know the maxim, one can't criticize what they don't know. And I tried to know them so I could criticize them. To me, the code is.. pretty readable. Definitely awful code, but readable nonetheless.
So, when the person says...
The developers can’t debug code they didn’t write.
...even though they argue they have more than 25 years of experience, it feels to me like they don't.
One thing is saying "developers find it pretty annoying to debug code they didn't write", a statement that I'd totally agree! It's awful to try to debug other's (human or otherwise) code, because you need to try to put yourself on their shoes without knowing how their shoes are... But it's doable, especially by people who deal with programming logic since their childhood.
Saying "developers can't debug code they didn't write", to me, seems like a layperson who doesn't belong to the field of Computer Science, doesn't like programming, and/or only pursued a "software engineer" career purely because of money/capitalistic mindset. Either way, if a developer can't debug other's code, sorry to say, but they're not developers!
Don't take me wrong: I'm not intending to be prideful or pretending to be awesome, this is beyond my person, I'm nothing, I'm no one. I abandoned my career, because I hate the way the technology is growing more and more enshittified. Working as a programmer for capitalistic purposes ended up depleting the joy I used to have back when I coded in a daily basis. I'm not on the "job market" anymore, so what I'm saying is based on more than 10 years of former professional experience. And my experience says: a developer that can't put themselves into at least trying to understand the worst code out there can't call themselves a developer, full stop.
@watson387@sopuli.xyz @King@blackneon.net @lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
Sometimes I wonder if all the people (six by now, and two on my other reply in this thread) who are downvoting my two fairly respectful (at least trying to be respectful to the OP) counter-arguments are, deep inside, machistas/misogynists, downvoting me because I dared to remind people that there are feminine Goddesses and I dared to mention some of Their names... Your people's current lack of counter-counter-arguments doesn't convince me otherwise.
@watson387@sopuli.xyz @King@blackneon.net @lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
Not everyone who believes in entities and deities (and you're assuming gendered pronouns and, by extension, unknowingly reinforcing the Abrahamic machismo whenever you use the masculine noun "god" to describe any deity/entity being worshipped by a worshipper, ignoring that there are Goddesses and feminine spirits as well, such as Pomba-giras, Lilith, Shakti, Kali, Morana, Morrigan, Santa Muerte, Ereshkigal, Hekate, Isis, Sekhmet, Bastet, Naunet, Babalon, among countless other feminine entities and Goddesses) does so out of being convinced by someone else.
To use my own experience as an example, I began worshipping an unified and syncretic Dark Mother Goddess without being convinced by anyone else. At that time, I used to be a member of a Luciferian sect, whose worshipping was centered around the male aspects of Lucifer, not the feminine aspects of Lilith, for example. Unexpectedly even to myself, I got this uncanny call of a powerful feminine spiritual energy who suddenly took me like a thousand hurricanes and became the epicenter of my entire existence, even though it happened to the disapproval of the Luciferian sect I was part of. I left the sect and, since then, I've been following a very personal (and quite lonely) syncretic belief system built of entities and concepts borrowed from and based upon several different systems, none of which I really belong to.
So, tl;dr: not everyone who believes in entities and deities does so out of being convinced by others, in fact, some (like me) even does so against any convincing from others, out of strange phenomena such as gnosis and synchronicity. Perhaps She is the one convincing me, thus validating your point about "one being convinced to believe"? Maybe... but humans aren't the ones convincing in this specific situation.
@King@blackneon.net @lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world
My religion (or, to be more precise, one of the religions composing my syncretic belief system) says "Do what Thou Wilt, shalt be the whole of Law" (Liber AL Vel Legis, Aleister Crowley, Thelema).
I get a lot of heat whenever I say this, but I keep saying it nevertheless: the problem is that anti-religious people often mistaken "religion" for "Abrahamic", while there are literally tens of thousands of different religions, as well as countless different personalized syncretic belief systems, especially left-hand path beliefs, which are nothing remotely close to dogmatic religions out there. Pro-science people unknowingly attack those who could be their best allies in the pursuit of "forbidden" ("forbidden" in the eyes of Abrahamic and other paternalistic religions; for us, it's a must-pursue) knowledge of scientific and philosophical inquiry.
Não precisa ter totalmente brasileiro, só que permita postagem em português na instância, e a maioria diz Inglês ou Alemão na caixa de idioma, e sem aviso de que podem outros na instância.
A menos que as regras do local estejam explicitamente definindo um idioma a ser usado (exemplo: regras dizendo "English-only" ou "Nur deutsche"), pessoalmente acho que não há problemas em postar em português ali, e na realidade é até interessante no sentido de que propaga a cultura brasileira e ajuda a representar o português em espaços onde idiomas como inglês e alemão dominam. Eu mesmo postava poesia em português no Geminispace após me cansar de ver postagens em alemão ali. Também postei várias coisas em Português nessa instância gringa que resido (calckey), embora no Calckey vi pessoas postando também em idiomas não-dominantes como italiano. E, por fim, cá estou numa comunidade do lemmy.ca (Canadá) respondendo em português, obviamente depois de ter olhado as regras ali da barra lateral, tanto da instância quanto da comunidade "privacy", e não ter visto nada versando sobre "English-only".
Eu tentei mandar alguns pedidos de entrada pra instâncias do bolha no pixelfed e no friendi.ca, mas não me responderam nem negaram nem aceitaram meu pedido.
No caso do Friendi.ca, o Friendica num geral tem passado instabilidades pela forma como a plataforma foi arquitetada, e talvez a demora na aceitação/recusa seja por isso. Nesse sentido, eu não recomendo o Friendica: é uma pena porque é uma excelente plataforma com vários recursos e com uma quantidade ótima de caracteres, porém vive tendo quedas. Eu tinha (ainda tenho) conta no Friendica.world mas acabei abandonando porque ou fica caindo toda hora ou não federa as coisas com as demais plataformas a tempo.
Já no caso do Bolha, talvez a administração ainda não viu a solicitação. Quando a solicitação para criar conta em uma instância é recusada, a administração (geralmente) envia um email explicando o porquê (exemplo: se está faltando alguma coisa na mensagem de aplicação, alguma informação que precisam pra decidir entre aceitar ou não). Se não houve um email de recusa nem de aceitação, tudo indica que foi isso, ainda não viram.
Opa, brasileiro aqui!
Primeiramente, preciso fazer uma observação: "iris" é um aplicativo/cliente para Nostr, que é uma rede decentralizada mais ou menos similar ao Fediverso. O Nostr tem seus prós e contras, mas um dos principais contras é que muitas das "instâncias" (relés) do Nostr exigem pagamento/PoW (proof-of-work) pra postar, o que o diferere do Fediverso que, em esmagadora maioria, é mais acessível e é gratuito (talvez alguma instância ou outra seja paga, por exemplo, instâncias destinadas a membros de algum clube). Outro contra do Nostr é que é praticamente um "Bar do Adolfo" com um monte de "techbros" (entusiastas de criptomoeda e de IA) ancaps apoiadores do Elon Mosca sendo usuários assíduos do Nostr. Basta uma breve olhada no feed de qualquer um dos relés do Nostr e os primeiros "eventos" (como são chamadas as postagens no Nostr) são falando de Bitcoin e/ou com imagens geradas por IA. Talvez existam relés/instâncias Nostr que não sejam parte do "Bar do Adolfo", mas desconheço.
Feita essa observação sobre o Iris e Nostr, lugares exclusivamente lusófonos (ou, melhor ainda, brasileiros) E que sejam focados em temáticas específicas de arte são raros. Eu ia lhe recomendar o Geminispace, principalmente o Midnight Pub e o Martin Station, antes de eu notar essa parte da sua busca (lugares brasileiros/lusófonos). Infelizmente, não parece que o Geminispace tenha plataformas brasileiras para cápsulas, ou pelo menos desconheço. Se tiver, acabaria sendo algo parado ou com pouquíssimos (menos de 10) usuários.
Únicos lugares totalmente brasileiros aqui do Fediverso que conheço/lembro são o Lemmy brasil (lemmy.eco.br, mas esse você já conhece, lembro de ter visto você participando em fios lá), as diversas instâncias do Bolha (o bolha tem, se não me engano, uma instância de Sharkey, similar a que estou usando nesse momento pra responder, e o Sharkey é excelente pra blogging), do Ayom, e o Harpia Red. Fora do fediverso mas em redes similares (como Geminispace, Tildeweb, Gopher ou mesmo redes como I2P), daí já desconheço.
@MicroWave@lemmy.world @world@lemmy.world
Speaking to Radio New Zealand on Thursday, conservation minister Tama Potaka said that feral cats are “stone cold killers” and would be added to the country’s Predator Free 2050 list, which aims to eradicate those animals that have a negative impact on species such as birds, bats, lizards and insects.
Unfortunately the aforementioned list will never contain the most "stone cold killer", most dangerous predator species of 'em all, because it's a list kept by that very species themselves.
These two paragraphs are blatantly clashing with each other.
If "purpose lies entirely within yourself", a manner of thinking which is egocentric insofar it centers the purpose inside the person themselves,
then accusing nihilism (and cosmicism), which completely negates and refuses to belief in any kind of human purpose (nihil = "nothing"), of "egoist projection" is not just a misunderstanding of what nihilism is, not just a distortion of what it states, it's a distortion of the very statement "purpose lies entirely within yourself", which is a statement often said by optimistic people and, thus, the exact opposite from nihilism.
so if you aren’t internationally famous there is no point in living?
What?! No, absolutely not even close to what I said! I guess you totally missed what I tried to express. Sorry to ask but, did you even read my replies?!
First and most importantly, I must thank you for reminding me and you're right in this point, specifically: I'm well aware how irrelevant I am. I deeply know it and I live with this irrelevance on a daily basis, knowing how I'll be nothing as soon as I get to finally die and find my own spiritual annihilation at the tip of Reaperess's scythe, still thanks for making me to remind of my irrelevance once again!
Having said this, irrelevance isn't exclusive to me: so is the entire humanity before the countless species on Earth (even though humans think of themselves as some kind of superior species). So is the earthly biosphere before the entire cosmos (even though life tries to fight the cosmic entropy). So is the entire cosmos before the underlying, transcendental fundamenta within it.
In fact, nothing is relevant when we consider cosmic fate, which is either one or more of (a) dark energy and cosmic expansion infinitely stretching the fabric of spacetime continuum to the point of quantum rupture (Big Rip) (b) depletion of energetic transformations (Big Freeze) (c) another cosmic bubble colliding with this one (Big Bounce).
Either way, all star stuff has expiration date, even though this expiration date is as far as billion, maybe trillion years from now. Life, by extension, is limited to that cosmic deadline, so both human's hopes of legacy and Nature's evolution of species are pretty much pointless if this farthest cosmic future is to be considered.
Then humans, aware of their own mortality, often hold on to religious views as to believe they'll get to some afterlife, and while I do have spiritual views (dark pantheistic ones), I don't believe in afterlife. The belief of an afterlife, a "fatherly god" is rooted on our deep fear of The Reaperess, She who's part of the aforementioned cosmic fundamenta, She who touches the spiritual spark of every living being and pulls every baryonic matter to its inexorable decay.
Still we tend to be afraid of Her so we hold on to materialistic, we hold on to mundane, with the hopes of an afterlife being a spiritual extension of this.
So, back to previous point, at absolutely no point I said about the mundane having relevance, much to the contrary: the part where I said about me slightly believing in purpose and relevance uses past tense. It's gone to me.
Currently, my views aren't just of a personal purposelessness, it's about cosmic and ontological purposelessness. Everything from "fame" and "Wikipedia" to "me" and "people around" are so trivially infinitesimal compared to the cosmos where all star stuff, macro and microscopic, are inhabiting and part of now; and compared to what's going to happen with all those.
Perhaps I must illustrate this with a story I write as I compose this very reply.
Imagine someone is brought into this world, to a house of three.
Year after year, the small family slowly improves the house: the backyard got new toys for the kid to play with, a new bedroom is made, cradle becomes a desk for doing school homework. As the kid grows, he starts helping his parents with the reforms, both for him and for them.
Kid becomes teen, then he modifies much of his bedroom to fit his tastes. He grows more, then his former toys get carefully wrapped and stored for his intended, future children.
He becomes adult. He starts college and job. He's made himself a career and he got promoted. He buys himself a better PC (the first thing he got to buy with his own paycheck) and he repurposes a corner of his desk for tinkering with electronics and ham radio.
One day, a strong climatic disaster happens, and the house partially crumbles to the ground. The whole family dies in the disaster. They get buried at the local cemetery. What's left of the house is sold and the new owner, a construction corp, decides to further demolish to merge the land with the neighboring houses they also bought.
Land becomes a warehouse and, after a few decades, a data center for a mid-21st century tech corp, where exabytes are stored in quantum servers. The story of that very family, however, is nowhere to be found, as their gravestones, and the cemetery as a whole, have been seeing fewer and fewer mourning guests as time passes, also gets bulldozed cause more data centers are needed and cemeteries are such a "waste of space" for landlords.
Now there's not even a gravestone number plaque. Nobody knows the names of those who used to be buried, let alone their stories.
This is the legacy 99.99% of humans are going to leave: none at all. Every happiness and sadness, every pain and relief, every fight and war, every love and passion, everything will end up being buried and all the bones will eventually be treated as part of the dirt of a land to be repurposed, first by "powerful" wealthy people, then by Mother Nature as climate change begins to redeem back a land which was originally Hers, and finally by the cosmos after Sol dies and Andromeda finishes the merger.
Why is my life so pointless? Not just my life: the whole existence. I don't even need to rely on fictional stories: we don't know names and personal lives from all those serfs of 14th century medieval Europe struck by Plague. We, living on a world highly reliant on writing, ironically don't know the name or life of the very first Sumer person to ever do cuneiform in Mesopotamia.
And when one realizes how mindbogglingly fleeting this existence are, and how even our individual subjective experiences are just neurological tissue to be dissolved as cadaver fluids to be consumed by vultures which will also become cadavers themselves someday, it's hard to unsee the fleetness.
@TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world @asklemmy@lemmy.world
In parts, the answer to your question lies in the very title of your thread or, to be precise, the latest word from it: 2020s.
Something happened in 2020. And this thing, for good and bad, required people to distance themselves. And those who were stubbornly unconvinced of the reasons why people should keep social distancing, were faced by the harsh reality sooner or later. We saw people falling dead like flies. We saw how the whole world was facing the exact same struggle, we saw the burnout of their health systems as doctors, nurses and other health professionals were dying in numbers like never before.
Then the pandemic forced the world to go full digital. To a certain extent, it was really great: we could be finally free from metropolitan pollution, as we could work from anywhere (including rural towns, far from the large cities), we could work while petting our cats at home, we could work without needing to get stressed by human modes of transportation.
But this digitalization is what provided enough crude material for a dystopian dungeon to be slowly build around us. Shortly after COVID, we saw things like ChatGPT popping up into existence out of nowhere. And what follows is contemporary and needs no introduction. Of course there's much more, but my reply is already big.
The fact is: people became (understandably) traumatized, like, for ever. Meanwhile, people became used to a fully digital life, with every aspect of their lives being an app (LaaS, Life-as-a-Service). People were never the same, the world got worse. "Third places" started to wane because Internet supposedly have all places humans need. Then capitalism, now technofeudalism, thrived to further enslave society.
To me, a Zennial (someone born in the cusp between Millennials and Gen Z), the COVID-19 is something that left a permanent wound, not just biological or physical (e.g. long COVID syndrome), but psychological, economical, social: all aspects of my existence were affected.
Before it happened, my social life was blooming, I was enrolled in college again to try and complete my degree I gave up a few years earlier. I was living plain adulthood, independent and far from my parents while living with nice stranger people in a hostel. I was well employed with not-so-bad paycheck and a quite steady IT career... Then COVID came and simply shattered it all. Not just my life goals, not just my academic or professional career, everything! And tech, which I used to love (hence my DevOps career), suddenly started becoming the dystopia I described earlier.
Eventually, COVID made me realize of the impermanence of this pointless existence, pushing me towards nihilism, until I simply gave up trying to deceive myself with mundane illusions. My attempts to seek friends, love, family and career are long gone: it's all pointless.
I'm just biologically surviving against the will at this point... Billions of humans are, too.
@Stacyasks@lemmy.cafe @nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
Yes. It's called "Eigengrau" and it happens due to the adaptation of the eye amidst the darkness.
@QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works @justpost@lemmy.world
To a certain extent, I kind of already switched a long time ago, when I also began trying other platforms such as Sharkey (the instance I'm posting from).
But the way federation works, it requires that a profile must be discovered in order to be followed. Even though Alice at Sharkey can follow Bob at Mastodon without needing to create a Mastodon, discovering Bob relies on Mastodon tools, so if the Mastodon admins turned off/limited the search, live feed, profile directory and/or other potential discovery mechanisms, the only way Alice could find and follow Bob would be by knowing Bob from somewhere else, be it from a common friend/fan (recommendation) or if Bob links to his profile from other instance/platform.
And Mastodon.social is, by far, the largest Fediverse instance. It's where accounts are, pulled by the "Network Effect" (newcomers are likely to sign up for Mastodon.social than, say, calckey.world). I may use Sharkey now, or whatever other instance-platform combination, but I must subscribe to a Mastodon profile shall I want to follow their content from here, and this requires me to know said profile's existence before I can follow them. If I don't know their existence beforehand, I won't be able to follow them.
Live feed is an almost "unfiltered" (insofar it can be any topic/human field of knowledge in any language, akin to the Wikipedia's "Random Article" feature but unrestricted to a specific language) stream of content that pops up as soon as it's published, a broadcast of existences. One of the things I really love is randomness, and Live Feed used to have it: I can see Turkish news articles (nothing I could understand because I don't speak Turkish, but it's cool trying to read it nevertheless) popping up next to Japanese-written (idem) microblogging about food, and automated profiles monitoring some random mischievous cat who leaves and enters some living room, and some public CCTV bot profile posting weather information for a random bridge.
Notice how it's highly diverse. And chaotic. Sometimes unpleasant things pop up too, as part of the very nature of randomness: then erotica pop up too, sometimes Vietnamese advertisement for machinery, crypto bots, scams, etc. All I need to do is to simply mute them, then they stop appearing and the randomness gets shaped to my interests, akin to a Weasel program ("methinks it's a weasel").
I discovered artists and arts this way. Many artistic pictures and aesthetic photos I saved were found through live feed. I discovered an profile who posts things about religious archaeology. I even experienced spiritual gnosis through synchronicity.
All those profiles and content are hosted at Mastodon.social, so finding them depends on its discovery features. And that's the point: they just disabled this feature this week. Silently. I saw nobody talking about this other than me/this thread, maybe I'm one of the few who used to use said feature.