Month: 14 Iyyar 5783 (May 2023)

I don’t care if BlueSky gains popularity over Mastodon. At this point, I don’t wanna be on the dance floor with the cool kids, imma be in the side room with the five weirdos I like.

—@Theorem_Poem

Investors: Companies are making money but not enough money!
Companies: Okay, we’ll lay off thousands of employees.
Investors: Hooray! Here, have an increased stock price!

(six months later)

Investors: Oh no! Where’d all of the consumer spending go?! This is a disaster!

—@funnelfiasco

Call me a conspiratorialist if you must. But when CEOs get on earnings calls and brag about how covid, war, and scare-stories about #inflation let them hike their prices and rake in never-before-seen profit margins, I think it’s reasonable to blame inflation on greed, not on workers getting a couple of relief checks during the lockdown.

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—@pluralistic

Happy Cinco de Mayo for those who celebrate for whatever reason!
🎉🎊
I celebrate because it’s the anniversary of the very first date (1990) I had with my husband of 33 years. We had a good date 🥰. We were married that same October. Still loving each other. 😎

—@Lowie

the thing about RSS is we all know what it is and what it can do. there is no mystery to it at all.

we should insist that all the new social media platforms AT LEAST provide outbound RSS so our ideas aren’t locked into their databases.

—@davew

@codinghorror I really hope the GOP starts pushing anti-porn laws, because Dems would win in a landslide in 2024.

When I was in high school, my church had a big Spiritual Growth Workshop at a large Orlando hotel. At the end of the 4-day conference the hotel manager informed our organizer that, as a group, we had broken their record for pay-per-view porn by a pretty wide margin. We broke a porn record in Florida. Do you know how hard that is? (Some pun intended)

—@ukuku

“Social media overall feels like when I used to go out four nights a week and drink Miller Lite until 3 am: It was cheap and fun and probably created a huge part of my personality, but, yeah, I’m too old to be doing that shit again.”

— Verge EIC Nilay Patel expressing pretty perfectly my own feelings about most social mediums these days

https://embedded.substack.com/p/my-internet-nilay-patel-verge-interview

—@mimsical

@gr0k @atomicpoet @gruber Bluesky only seems simpler just now as there’s only one app and one server. The whole reason for developing AT was it would be federated, but “better” than ActivityPub by allowing truly nomadic user accounts. Of course the nomadic accounts don’t exist, so maybe they’ll never enable federation and just be a centralised Twitter replacement. Then their absence of actual moderation will come to bite them.

—@MetalSamurai

@themadcodger @markrprior @maegul @atomicpoet I keep seeing people recommending PWA as a solution for the lack of mobile apps for the non-Mastodon ActivityPub platforms. And I don’t get it. Those people really must have a thing for pain, because every PWA I’ve tried can most charitably be described as “janky”. Doesn’t feel natural, doesn’t deal with being offline and generally just awkward.

—@MetalSamurai