I kinda expected it to be another Lyft stock comedy. Idk why.

It got me in my way to learning about decentralization and now I’m all over the small web stuff.

I just wish there was a way to delete my reddit profile comments easily. I log in every three months or so by accident usually.

Judging Turtle Neck McConnell’s recent pro-isrealhell speech, I think you’re right.

Ohhh! Another good suggestion. I really appreciate it. Thanks.

Thanks for the suggestion!

Yea… and I realize how harsh it sounds but like, I put “lazy” in quotes because I don’t think it’s really laziness. Maybe more boredom? The environments’ just been designed to not invite exploration. Everything is just automatic and instant now. Innovation is driven by need. The need has been engineered away, for the most part.

People are “lazy” and only social, today. They want to log in, info dump, and not think.

Before the nadir of social media, when reddit and twitter were coming up, the people online were predominantly young millennials and new tech was exciting. That was a time where netizens were more curious and accepting of online platform learning challenges. In fact, if it was beta or even just more hands on and generally nerdy, that often made the platform more appealing. Then everything became standardized. Mega social media squashed innovative smaller fun projects. Competition got absorbed. And with the mass standardization of the internet came the younger generations who came up just expecting shit to work as they’ve always seen. Streamlined and with an inclusion of 15 minutes of fame. But, in honesty the biggest snooze is the lack of innovation that drove the old internet drives today’s general malaise.

Times are different. People are bored with internet tech and are therefore less curious. My younget gen z and y co-workers glaze over if I even so much as mention irc or playing around with your own web server. Gen y understands but doesn’t care because Twitter and IG governed their highschool experience. Gen z doesn’t understand and are kinda boomer-esque in terms of any software comprehension. I’ve had to teach my interns what Excel even is.

Times are different. Everything has being standardized, monontonized, monitized, predictable, and generally boring. I think the fediverse would have to become mainstream to appeal to the mainstream. And today’s mainstream aren’t interested in new platform learning curves unless there’s something fun, compelling, and of entertainment value to them.

Just my old millennial lady take.

He’s helping remind us just how much worse the Trump presidency would be.

I am shocked I had to scroll down this far for this one.

Those still exist at this time.

It’s more like they will miss fully having to rely on the library and their family owning a collection of encyclopedia because no internet.

It definitely has that Front Page feel. I straight up just blocked .world after they took a pro Meta stand.

They “forgot” what Russia did to Syria fairly recently.

tiktok? ffffff

I hope someone digs into his case. I wonder if he had been getting any weird phone calls or feelings like he was being tracked, leading up to his death.

Oh. The Octopus Murders. US gov is so fucking vile.

Gotta wonder if he’d care if it weren’t election season, though. After his whole four year term he finally got around to wiping my student debt a week ago. I know that was election driven.

Yup. I had to wait for the finance clown to finish talking to his gardener before he would come back to our teams meeting so I could go home. This, after everyone being allowed to wfh for three whole years before. I wish this shit was labor suit worthy.

My “easy-to-use internet” addicted Gen Y co-workers love it. They’re too young to know about its roots in extortion and don’t care to follow up on it.

Meanwhile, at my piece of shit job that Gen X’ers have shaken hands with the boomers in leadership and withdrew wfh for anyone who isn’t in a leadership position.

This made me laugh through my nasal passages because I read it in the sarcastic tone I would’ve delivered it in.