I hate the rich boys' playground aspect of the big sports leagues. Just shop around for the largest amount of money to steal from taxpayers, then piss all over the fans whenever it's convenient. I hope this is a trend against it. If you want a new stadium for your team, build a new stadium for your team.
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That is a good point actually! That means they would have the freedom to move over to a new platform.
Are you thinking of it as a centralized replacement to YouTube? If you're centralized, yeah, you probably need a data centre the size of Malta. There are decentralized alternatives (like PeerTube) where the cost is also distributed. If you're using PeerTube, you literally can "just throw it on a cheap VPS", and lots of people do, with no problems.
I think the real reason decentralized video isn't going to catch on is because video (and YouTube in particular) has not been a community thing for many years now. There are very few YouTubers who make videos to build a community or connect to a community. YouTubers are on there for money, and there's really no alternative that can both host the videos and pay out big cheques to content creators.
I don't have statistics to back this up, but I'd be willing to bet an entire doughnut that most reddit users have never posted even a single comment. People with that level (dis)engagement aren't the type to seek out alternatives. They just kind of drift away.
Yeah by "barebones" I meant "the bot is just me manually pressing 'edit' when someone scores" haha. Need to find a game where I know there won't be too much scoring....
Subscribed! But yeah, not a tonne of activity.
That's a good point about a game thread. I think making a game thread where there's a stream available to everyone might get some people interested. I'll look at making a barebones game thread there in the not-too-distant future and see if anyone bites.
Slashdot is not only still alive, but it's not even bad.
It's not what it used to be, though. Back in the CmdrTaco days, when it was the place to go for Linux news, it felt like it was part of a movement. Now it's just kind of...there...hanging on. Not bad, just not exciting.
It's cool to go into the Slashdot comments these days and still see some 3-digit (and sometimes even 2-digit) UIDs posting after all these years.
If I remember my Lemmy history right (someone correct me)....
In the early days of Lemmy, everyone was on one instance (lemmy.ml). The founding Lemmy developers (and their friends, I guess) were tankies. At some point they decided to make Lemmy more attractive to the general population, and make the flagship lemmy.ml less overtly Marxist-Leninist/offputting. So they split lemmy.ml into 2: lemmy.ml for non-commie stuff, and lemmygrad.ml for commie stuff. Since the bulk of Lemmy users in the early days were still tankies (or their friends), they were still generally using both instances very heavily.
The day that lemmygrad.ml ceases to be the #2 instance and becomes just another niche-interest instance is the day we can say Lemmy has truly become mainstream, I think.
I think dating should be more accidental, as well. Meet someone at the bus stop and ask them out, that sort of thing.
Barry Schwartz (if you want more boomer opinions, look him up) made the excellent point that it's very difficult for us to be pleasantly surprised these days. Everything we do now comes with expectations. Before a date, we look at their profile. Before a meal, we look up the restaurant ratings. Before buying anything, we read all the reviews, etc. Before we experience anything, it's already been marketed to us. It's great in a lot of ways, but it means that the best we can ever hope for is to be not disappointed. It's becoming very very rare that something will exceed our expectations and we will be pleasantly surprised. I wouldn't be surprised if this has impacts on our psychology.
As it relates to dating, I think it's nice when you stumble upon a good connection when it's least expected, rather than swiping through 1000 pictures. And on your first date, you should probably have no idea what the other person might be like.
Also I've found that, when an "All", a bunch of posts will come flooding in several seconds after the rest of the page is loaded, and none of them will be sorted correctly.
Yeah the future dates (more future times, I guess) is something a lot of people neglect. "Do everything in UTC" is sadly not a magic bullet for all times.
First of all you need to decide if you really want UTC or if you actually want TAI. But if you do want UTC (and you do, a lot of the time), future times become a problem. If they're TAI, then you can't (always) predict exactly when they'll happen. If they're UTC, then you can't (always) predict exactly how far in the future they are.
I remember having group discussions as to whether to keep going in the Alta Vista search whenever we searched for something.
"Okay let's stop at page 10"
"Nah, just a couple pages more. There might be something new."
"Like half of these links are about Polish vintage cars already. We've seen every Princess Toad site."
"Just go to page 11...."