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/r/ModCoord is polling subs, a lot of support still for indefinite blackout

Despite what advertising executives believe, the majority of us would gladly pay if it meant not having to deal with ads. I hate ads so much.

I think you're right. It's been my impression that a lot of the people over at Reddit who don't care, are the ones who are reading, not writing. I've sadly gone back, to at least provide an alternative with a magazine I started, and it feels very uncomfortable now.

Linux as an OS is just so much better about getting good performance out of the hardware, and keeping itself out of the way. I've converted a lot of people to Linux over the year in an effort to get better performance on older systems. They couldn't afford to buy a new computer, and usually just wanted to be able to check email and go on the web. Slap Ubuntu on and they were always shocked how much better everything ran, but was still easy to use.

Had a Burger King near me die. It seemed sudden, because one day I went there and got lunch, and the next day it was closed forever. But in retrospect, yeah, you run for like 9 months with only 2-3 workers on, you're not giving a very good impression, and it's inevitable.

I don't blame the workers in any of that, they were doing their best. If BK wasn't going to pay a livable wage, that's their own fault, nobody wants to work a job that isn't going to pay their bills.

I miss altavista, but not as much as I miss webcrawler. Webcrawler was THE best once upon a time imo.

@Suedeltica So, I've been around for what is turning out to be a long time now, and I can tell you that pre-web-based internet, I used to BBS a lot. And the fun thing there was we were online with people within our long-distance calling range basically. So we had that early sense of online community, but with people we eventually ended up meeting up with in real life once we got old enough to drive and be unsupervised and stuff. And the BBS's are long, LONG gone now, but these are some of the people I'm actually RL closest with to this day. So I guess I'm saying, yeah, the networks they come and go, and the people come and go too, but we do end up keeping the ones who really matter. FB isn't the first to disappear, and it won't be the last. The world changes so much, and there will be something new eventually. There always is.

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Once upon a time, people thought that it would be fun to have a place to learn and play and talk together, and the more people that came, the better they would all learn from each other. So they got together and built this place in one fixed spot. And they DID learn from each other, and it was fun and amazing. But some people were greedy and wanted to control all of it so that they could feel like they were better than everyone else. These greedy people forced the people to give them more and more money to be able to use the spot. The bad guys would treat the people who wanted to have fun badly, and use information about them against them. This made people sad.

Then one day, somebody said, "Hey, why can't we just have a bunch of little spots, so that nobody can hold us hostage?"

But the other people were afraid they wouldn't be able to play with some of their friends or learn from other people if everybody was separated. Until some people came up with the idea that all these small communities could agree to share everything they were doing with each other, small spot to small spot. Nobody owned all the spots now, and people were free to choose spots that were more convenient for them, without having to be afraid that others wouldn't be there, because all the small spots still made one big spot!

And that dear, is basically the fediverse in a nutshell. Now go to sleep, you have a big day tomorrow. tuck tuck

@anathema_device - Love the username, Gaiman and Pratchett are my top two favorite authors.

The only reason I keep FB around at this point is that's honestly the only way I have to contact a certain sub-section of people. The messenger app is the only real reason, that and FB is the new Classmates.com lol

ETA: I believe FB is dead in terms of what it once was. My GenZ teenagers seem to think so, and honestly so does almost everyone else I regularly actually interact with. What really killed it in my eyes is when they began targeting what showed up in your feed, instead of the old default "all, newest first". And over time it became harder and harder to find how to do "all, newest first". Once that happened, it was inevitable it would become the violently divided echo chamber it is today.

Man I miss George Carlin