Return the internet to the pre-“smart” phone era, in which a minimum bar of effort and knowledge needed to be present in order to connect and participate on the web.

Yeah. I think that’s happening now. The public will discover the Fediverse, but I’m not sure if they’ll be welcomed into every community here.

History tells us there’s also a release valve of a swift brick to the side of the head, one brick per billionaire.

It sounds messier than paying taxes, to me. But I’m not a billionaire, so I can’t say I understand their motives.

This is particularly interesting, since modern organizational theory tells us that Boeing’s primary customers would be much better off with a shift in power toward Boeing’s workers, away from it’s current leadership.

Purchasers of huge airplanes cannot afford to purchase airplanes built under leadership that cuts corners the way Boeing’s leadership lately has.

The striking workers may have an unusual ally here - in Boeing’s customer base, which notably includes the US Government and parts of it’s Armed Forces.

Yeah. The litigation risk is considered high right now, and no one wants to be first to try it.

Which I totally get. This place is largely run by volunteers, after all.

We saw similar hesitation in the early days of WordPress/Wikipedia/Drupal proliferation. Eventually those solutions greatly enabled sites like BlogSpot and Tumblr to become wild places, and niche sites to pop up for stuff that BlogSpot and Tumblr didn’t want to touch.

I can think of a few specific anti-spam and security tools that strongly enabled casual admins of WordPress to start sites.

I think we will see an erotic golden age once Fediverse moderation tools cross some unknown usability threshold.

Edit: I come across here as really excited about porn. Lol.

Art has a long history of being erotic, and beauty appreciation is one of the better things technology can do.

I am also really excited for the rest of the content that will thrive after demand for porn has pushed the technology to maturity.

I’m not sure what to do.

On Mastodon, I used the search function to shotgun random topics that interest me, and then followed all the hashtags on the posts that came up.

Over time, I started replacing following hashtags with following my favorite users who I discovered through those hashtags.

Then I started discovering and following their favorite users through their boosts.

Now that my feed is pretty much where I want it I tend to click “hide boosts” on anyone new that I follow, to prevent their every random amusement from cluttering my feed.

The end result is fantastic, but it took awhile to get there.

stopped talking to me once I said I didn’t have instagram, because it meant I was “hiding something”.

That’s awful.

Also, I guess they would think I’m hiding so much, considering the number of bloated awful services I’ve rejected.

You’re doing better than I am. I just bullshit them and say I’ll “probably check it out later.” By which I really mean whenever it gets reposted on a less shitty technology platform, in a few decades. But I don’t say that part.

Yeah! I think that’s going to sway in this place’s favor very soon.

I predict a glorious age of the very best curated pornography being here.

As other preferred platforms enshitify, I expect a lot of innovate erotic sensual and/or dirty artists (new and established) to have a dynamic, accessible, profitable experience here.

It’s probably going to be very horny, but also really beautiful in a lot of pro-social ways.

I mean some of us aren’t programmers…

I think…

… Looks around…

…yet.

Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean you’re wrong.

I’m a fan of powerful assistive solutions, but I’m not comfortable with something closed source and proprietary running this intimately.

There’s likely some outright criminals who can’t easily send their dirty traceable money into politics directly to buy favors. Seems to me that this helps “solve” that.

I, personally, imagine high odds of a combination of:

• overt intentional crime happening in un-subtle ways
• disallusioned operational staff with no real reason for loyalty
• failure to stop at various “don’t do this or we will get caught” lines

If I were any kind of federal investigator, I would look into this with great interest.

He can live out his remaining time in Russia as a wanna-be oligarch, and Putin will treat him like a leader-in-exile

Yep. Except that’s only until he runs his mouth and has a tragic fall from a window.

If I where to place a bet, I would say 3 months, tops.

Yeah! They missed investing with several known fraudsters already. Sure is lucky that yet another one is here to fill the gap!

I would also say that your comment would be a thousand times more damning than upvoting every comment/post critical of Musk.

Yeah. If I were out as my real name, John Jacob Jinglehimer Schmidt, then I wouldn’t make these comments.

If votes were anonymous here, I might “come out” as my professional self and share more from my resources that can be used to Identity who I am.

I’m concerned that my voting pattern is probably already being collected to build a profile on MajorHavok, to decide whether MajorHavok should be favored or disfavored in anything owned by old Elon or Zuck or Bezos.

Elon is a fuck up, but he still owns a lot of places that I might need to use for my work.

So, for now, it’s pretty important to me that MajorHavok and John Jacob Jinglehimer Schmidt are kept as separate identities, so that John’s employability where Elon/Zuck/Bezos has influence will remain unaffected.

I have never subscribed to a community so quickly before this, and may never again.

Thank you!

Damn! That would be fucking awful.

Great points.

I might add:

I strongly suspect that a much bigger fraction of the free volunteer labor moved here, than anyone has realized.

Zuck and Spez know how fucked they are, but they’re motivated to downplay the damage to their platforms.

There’s an unvirtuous cycle where their platforms have under-resourced moderation, which has allowed bot proliferation, which has made unpaid moderation work a shittier job, which causes moderators to leave, which allows more bot proliferation.

Folks here seem to be saying our moderation tools are objectively poor, but are getting better with each release. So it’s the bot spammers whose life gets harder, over time, here.

Not an accident either, I expect.

The billionaires are feeling the tides change and they don’t like it.