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Nah I’m good, thanks

Robinson Crusoe wasn’t a Mary Sue, and that’s the archetype of the genre. Andy is just not a very good writer. In his defence, though, at least he isn’t Ernest Cline.

Oh no, we’ll miss out on another story featuring a totally-not-a-self-insert Mary Sue le epic Redditor MC single-handedly sciencing the fuck out of everything?

What’s the difference between this and missiles?

If they do achieve decentralization in the future I’ll gladly call it decentralized, but “tangible plans” don’t warrant use of a descriptor like that. If someone is training in the hope of making their country’s Olympics team they don’t get to call themselves an Olympian. You have to have gone to the Olympics to justify that title. Working towards decentralization is the same thing. You don’t get to call yourself decentralized just because you wrote it down as a goal on your roadmap.

I don’t think that it’s accurate to say that bluesky is “completely” centralized (it is less centralized than most social media) as much as it’s de-facto centralized.

That’s like me calling myself a millionaire because I could theoretically be one at some point in the future. I am de facto not a millionaire, but I also have more than zero dollars. so I’m not completely a non-millionaire.

Also theres already another instance and relays running on a raspberry pi.

Oh yeah? I can join that second server right now and communicate with folks on the main server?

I stopped reading when the “journalist” asked this question:

How did you end up starting a decentralized social platform?

How little research must one do to credulously repeat that PR talking point for a platform that is in fact completely centralized?

That’s way, way more time and effort than I’m willing to waste on getting my computer up and running, and I still fail to see any real benefit over copying my Arch home folder and reinstalling what I need from Pacman/AUR. If I had to set up dozens of computers at a time then yes, absolutely, Nix would be perfect!

Came here to say NixOS too. The idea behind it is neat but the implementation is the most obtuse Rube Goldberg machine I can imagine.

Americans aren’t smart enough to not eat the toy inside.

Good read, well worth your time to go through it, if only to roll your eyes at the sycophancy on display.

It isn’t. Not even close. This says $12 https://www.epi.org/blog/the-value-of-the-federal-minimum-wage-is-at-its-lowest-point-in-66-years/

Go be mad about real problems.

Coming in here with a “solution” that requires the worldwide eradication of capitalism, authoritarianism, and imperialism and then tells me I’m the one unaware of real problems. r/im14andthisisdeep-ass conversation.

I’m not upset by the sentiment, I’m upset by the flippant naivete. Go tell Ukrainians or Gazans about your solution for world peace and count down the seconds till you get punched in the face.

Nah war is cringe.

Wow I’m literally shaking right now. I just showed your comment to Putin and he immediately ordered all Russian troops out of Ukraine. Your Nobel Peace Prize invitation should arrive momentarily.

I think the idea would be, if the US invades Canada, to make us more like Afghanistan than Switzerland. Or perhaps Finland is a better comparison, being somewhere in the middle.

I think the guy in the pith helmet went to the wrong event – Elon’s office is in another part of town.

I get the sentiment, but the term “colonial” is a bit condescending after 300+ years. It’s like calling Turks or Magyars “nomads”.

Facebook has spent something like 70 billion dollars on the “metaverse” with nothing to show for it, so it’s very possible.