RE: https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux/116041309989733171
Good thing we're destroying the Internet for entirely performative "for the children" bullshit while there's child rapists in the highest ranks of government and business.
This fucking timeline.
Discord is about to require age verification for everyone https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/discord-is-about-to-require-age-verification-for-everyone/
#Discord
timeline serendipity
You vs the guy she tells you not to worry about
2006: Less is more, don’t repeat yourself
2016: Beautiful code prevents technical debt
2026: trillions of lines of generated spaghetti code that generate other spaghetti code will save us
The laptop I bought on eBay that—according to the listing—has no hard disk and a monochrome screen has arrived
It's so weird that a lot of people think the quality of software is measured in how often it gets updated—it's literally the opposite.
@VojtechHorky@social.coop It's getting better but it's still broken in other ways.
Really the most sensible solution would be intermediary aggregation so especially smaller servers can fetch replies more efficiently.
@VojtechHorky@social.coop The real issue is unfortunately the underlying protocol, I'm unsure if this can be overcome without breaking backwards-compatibility.
Perhaps they could add a second, more efficient protocol and slowly migrate to it.
You know how to get people to leave platforms run by evil people?
Yes, that's right, by offering better alternatives and being super friendly and welcoming and actively working on recruiting people and evangelizing for the better platforms and most importantly by not being chastizing and gatekeeping misers.
And this is working, but it's slow progress.
Mastodon in particular has UX problems that will be very hard to overcome that prevent mass adoption, foremost is that actual conversations (aka replies) are unreliable and slow due to the way posts are distributed. Quote post support was a huge first step to remedy this. I hope we'll see more updates on it.
Bluesky got a big chunk of former Twitter users, especially in some niches like for scientists and activists; they have great performance, reliable threading and replies and really amazing featuers like fully custom feeds—but suffer from intransparent moderation and frankly insufferable leadership (still leagues better than Twitter or Facebook though).
(There's more than these, but these are what I use.)
You know how to get people to leave platforms run by evil people?
Yes, that's right, by offering better alternatives and being super friendly and welcoming and actively working on recruiting people and evangelizing for the better platforms and most importantly by not being chastizing and gatekeeping misers.
Expert systems are inevitable
Don’t get left behind, Flash is the future
Java Applets will replace all other software
Cryptocurrency will obsolete fiat currency
Better claim your stake in the Metaverse
By 2015, we will all have self-driving cars
Pen computing is going to end keyboards on laptops
You’ll look so stupid if you miss out on NFTs
Being Left Behind Enjoyer
Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧
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