Next time he'll know better. Oh wait...
(they're having fun, not being literal:-)
and yeah that one looks quite fake:-)
I don't know, I didn't make it! It is pretty though...:-)
I thought so. A lot of people didn't, and that's okay, bc those who do got something out of it: validation of our struggles to push past what is "real life" (at least what people say it is) to whah is truly the actual real life!:-P
i.e., ignore the h8rs, bc fuck that noise.
But even more generally, we are each more than we seem (ironically, possibly even the haters, they just don't know it yet:-).
Bones would never lie - he's a good boy, yes he is:-).
Always innovating, never maintaining - what could possibly ever go wrong with that model? 🙄
I counted the word "institutional" used almost once per sentence. There were a couple of sentences that didn't use it, but there was at least one sentence that used it twice. Plus all the figures and captions for them too.
Though despite being not "institutional", the market seems to have behaved a little as if it were, due to use of software to fix prices at what the landlords believed that the market would bear. So still price gouging, regardless of whether done by individuals or giant mega-corporations.
Though still a good point that the article makes.
Definitely it will but I don't expect it to happen soon. Social media has turned fairly toxic, and now that people have been saturated with those bad experiences, many people have simply moved on. Some to offline, some to far more obscure rather than centralized spaces, some even are dead of COVID, or lost or are stressed about keeping their jobs in Big Tech, etc. A new generation will rise up to replace them and those likely will use a federated source, or they may turn away from "social media" altogether and use more like wiki writing or even micro-blogging.
What people choose to not understand is that while they are free to do whatever they wish, so too are other people - e.g. a community mod removing their post, an instance admin banning them altogether, or even simply someone else leaving the room when all the kids shout and make too much noise.
Lemmy requires heavy and constant curation, and a thick skin during that never-ending process, to be usable. Not everyone is willing to do that, especially people who are perfectly happy to entertain themselves in other pursuits. Thus the most capable people are the least likely to put up with our crap.
Hopefully I'm wrong, or at least just wrong enough that that aspect of the Fediverse still grows despite that counter trend.
Lastly, there is hope for improvements on the technology side - e.g. if you could see someone who is consistently downvoting you even for solid quality stuff, that's someone you can block to reduce that negative "noise" feedback, except right now the voting is essentially anonymous since there is no way off a non-instance admin to view it (outside of K/Mbin, I mean like even on those platforms iirc I've tested and you can only view those originating from another K/Mbin instance, at the time, again iirc). When things become more equitable in that regard, it should entice more people to remain.
It might be from that outreach program to kids - I even saw something made up to look like a mermaid in there:-). Anyway yeah, whether made for or by kids, it's definitely stylized.
I suppose it depends where & how you look?
Unfortunately it seems like people listen and believe whatever they want, while the truth is complex, messy, and difficult.