this is a cry for help btw. i will do a new install at some point and need to get tips on What Not To Do This Time (other than install multiple desktops on one user and create a bigger efi)
me: hey why do my linux installs always get weird to use
my current install, begging for the sweet release of death with a 100mib /boot/efi and a slightly broken KDE from installing COSMIC on the same user:
why does hytale feel too good to be true. i know the game is out in early access and all that but it doesnt feel real. i cant have hope like this for the game industry
wait no dollar-dragon. dollar-dragon is so much better.
may i propose half-dollar-harpy
*: of course this also neglects the fact that they did change the ToS to accommidate him. which is extremely fucked up. point still stands, sadly.
11.5/17
i dont know if a good social media site exists. bsky has foot-gunned itself, mastodon is still strange and hard for most users, extwitter... exists. tumblr isn't even close to the twitter model and suffers from similar staff problems as bsky. c'est la vie.
17/17
ease of safety: every server has it's own rules/moderation. sure, it's easy to block certain groups (just block a server about things you don't like), but that gets fragmented quickly. to an average user, a blocklist is easier to get than blocking a server- and this all depends on server mods.
16/17
ease of usage: mastodon lacks an algorithm, which i'd argue could hurt. users are forced to put in more work curating their feed, finding people and posts they like. even if mastodon had an algorithm, it's userbase is still so self-selected (due to ease of access!) that finding niches is hard.
15/17
ease of access: so, which server do i pick? do i want to pick an already existing server? i have to wait for my account? i know this is basically email, but to any person just wanting twitter 2 this is confusing- not even counting selfhosting.
14/17
but then where do we go? mastodon? not really. i think it suffers from lacking all three! mastodon's userbase is very technical/pro-OSS people, the type of people who are willing to set aside somewhat strange ideas/UX in exchange for customizeability. this means your experience varies greatly.
13/17
but now staff are in a bind of their own making. they havent just kept him, they've actively shut down debate against them. they banned a black user, allegedly for an image of charlie kirk but that coincided with him criticizing staff. they've hidden blocklists of transphobes. safety is gone.
12/17
there was an easy solution: just wait! bsky has a great feature, community moderation tools. blocklists allow users an easy tool to group people together that they don't want to see. if someone hasn't violated ToS*, then staff, no matter what i or others may want, does not need to ban them.
11/17
this is. just. fucking stupid. there is no easier way to make users feel unsafe than intentionally supporting people who intentionally spread harm against them or groups they support.
10/17
fast forward now to today, and we've seen the bsky staff team intentionally refuse to take action against transphobic people on the site, and importantly, *attack the users calling for such*. it's like they don't even care for user goodwill.
9/17
it's put perfectly in a techcrunch article by @sarahp.bsky.social from 2024: "By keeping [Singal], Bluesky risks harming the community, depleting its goodwill, and losing users, while also sending a signal to others that bad actors and harassers are welcome there".
8/17
a lot of these people are people who would feel threatened by socially conservative beliefs entering their environments. this, importantly, means a lot of marginalized groups. POC. queer people. anyone the hard-social-conservatives would want removed from society.
7/17
and then the waffles hit. it's important to recognize a question here: who is bsky's primary userbase? my answer? *twitter refugees.* people who didn't want to deal with the sudden unsafety of ExTwit but also didn't want to lose their muscle memory of how twitter worked.
6/17
thus, bluesky. until recently it hit all 3: easy to sign up for (just create an account!), easy to use (it worked of the same twitter microblog principles, a diverse range of people (so you can find new, interesting content), and it had decent safety (community blocklists, decent moderation).
5/17
third is ease of safety. this does not exactly mean ease of *security*, although that can be part of this. what i refer to is social safety: does your primary userbase feel like they can interact and share what they want shared publicly without fear of retaliation?
4/17
second is ease of usage, both in UX and socially. for UX, a user cannot be expected to grasp weird systems of posting, replying, moderation, etc. for social, people generally want *new* things that *they like*. this is a catch-22 for many small platforms- too few people for niches/subculture.
3/17
first is ease of access. you cant get users if they don't know how to even get on the platform. this can be a double edged sword depending on what you want- do you want a closed off platform for a certain group, or do you want a public service used by many?
2/17
had a convo with a friend about the bsky drama and social media in general, and i feel like sharing my thoughts
i feel every social media platform has 3 barriers for it's userbase: ease of access, ease of usage, and ease of security. if you remove one, people will look for other platforms.
1/17
this is a video you go into expecting 'haha funnei hand egg scoer' and instead you get a crippling reminder of your own mortality and the insanity/stupidity that is human life.
anyways we should have a negative score imo. give me a 6-(-1). it'd be comedy.
got hit with the double whammy of seeing this post, skimming the article, going "heh, this is funny and insane", and then the neuron connection forming that this means jane goodall died.
live laugh bluesky
"man i really wish i could use my kindle but without fear of supporting amazon"
the humble kindle jailbreak:
kindlemodding.org
who let me on the public internet. poor decision on their part
