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  • It seems like the whole fediverse is having a lot of the same growing pains.

    Discovery is still basically an impenetrable jungle. If you already know exactly what you’re looking for it’s fine. But I basically just wander around and happen upon neat stuff every so often lol.

    And sorting content is another type of discovery problem. I’m subscribed to some interesting stuff but I need to remember to actually go check them because none of it shows up in feeds.

    I’m not a programmer, so I don’t know how long it takes to work out these types of issues. But I do know that I’m only still around because I’m hopeful, not because I’m actually finding it particularly useful or entertaining.

    The fediverse currently feels like it might be competitive with webforums from 2010: The platform isn’t doing much to help, but it’s fine 'cause the people have spirit lol.



  • We probably should decide how much conflict we want to imagine happening here lol.

    Wars from the 1700s-1800s (a couple hundred years ago from today) just aren’t thought about much during my regular daily life, but none of those were global catastrophes right.

    So if we can manage to avoid major nuclear destruction, then it could be pretty tame after 300 years!

    Assuming we don’t all destroy each other, then we mostly keep our knowledge base, so we don’t need to restart from a basic agrarian culture lol. Someone saved wikipedia right??

    There will still be an unbelievable amount of losses from starvation alone, so we’re definitely restarting the population from small communities.

    But 300 years of repopulation, and 300 years battery research might actually get us to something approaching the early 1900s again! (Around the 1930s is when about half of American households had electricity.) Cities are possible, we start getting back into shipping between countries or continents. If we add internet into this mix, we get even further!

    Honestly, if we’re talking about hundreds of years (and humans don’t self-destruct) then I actually think we don’t get set back too far on the grand scheme of things lol.


  • There’s an About section, saying the instance has just under 1,000 videos, and is using about 250 gigs right now. (If you include federated videos, then it’s 63,000 videos though lol.)

    I agree with you here, it sure looks like being a new video platform is a very difficult game to play. And asking for people to donate to MakerTube specifically rather than any of the myriad of other peertube platforms seems like a very uphill battle too lol.

    I do think that it would be good for all of us to get used to contributing to the operations costs of platforms where the users aren’t the product. But yeah, there’s definitely going to be growing pains lol.






  • I supported a pre-emptive Threads defederation, because I expect them to Embrace-Extend-Extinguish the fediverse for the sake of profit.

    For the BBC, I don’t feel as overtly opposed. They don’t really have the user base to overextend us with, even if they tried to get their audience on mastodon lol. They haven’t seemed blatantly profit driven in the past. And they’re starting their own instance, using fediverse tech.

    Does anyone think this is the BBC’s Embrace step? It’s not sparking any alarm bells for me, but can I get a sanity check?