Oooh, neat community! Joined!

I guess that’s one benefit of a smaller site - if you put down the effort in it, it stands out more. But community discovery is absolutely a challenge.

You’d think this was a safe prediction, yet here we are.

That’s interesting and I missed that post, thanks!

It can be easy to lose track of how successful the fediverse already is, as the number of users will remain negligible compared to mainstream platforms for a really long time and possibly forever. Seeing how it easily outperforms a major player like Digg trying to re-establish themselves puts things into perspective.

I tried Librewolf for a while and found it to be a bit too much for me when all I really want is Firefox without AI. The privacy options are probably great but not for me.

Just installed waterfox. First impression is that I am super happy to be bock to the previous Firefox theme - it takes less space and looks nicer in my opinion. Seems promising. Thanks for the recommendation! :)

Did it have niche communities that had successfully moved over, but that were not featured on the front page?

Sorry if it’s a stupid question, I just always had the impression I didn’t understand what I was looking at and now it’s gone and I’m genuinely curious.

How was it? Did it feel lively?

I just checked the front page a couple of times out of curiosity, but I never bothered really checking it out too much. I was always surprised how dead it looked from the outside, but that might have been the wrong impression.

Edit: As an illustration, the last snapshot of Digg on internet archive a couple of days ago shows a front page where almost all posts had less than 30 upvotes, and the only two posts breaking above 50 are tech nostalgia posts about a Windows 98 screensaver (105 upvotes, 9 comments) and some young woman reviewing instagram 15 years ago (59 upvotes, 6 comments). Fitting for a platform from the past, worrying if they wanted to be part of the future.

In terms of activity, Digg thus never seemed to be able to keep up with more famous and well-funded competitors such as eviltoast.org. Never mind that a lot of the users seemed to have been trolls upset about being banned by Reddit. SEO is probably part of the problem, but it seems unlikely to be the full story. I think their problem is that it never took off.

Wonderful. “The air defence systems worked perfectly well, and those in the area hit by foreign missiles should be executed for implying that it didn’t”.

One of the most beautiful songs Shane MacGowan ever wrote, and therefore in effect one of the most beautiful songs ever written. Lovely cover, though it stays quite close to the original.

For anyone who missed it, here’s Nick Cave singing it in Shane’s funeral.

Managed to refuse… In more than half of the cases. That does not look good. By any reasonable standard failing in one of a thousand would be disasterous.

Ja, jeg skal ikke late som om jeg forstår meg på danske vokallyder. :)

Jeg kjenner ikke noe særlig til Jungeldyret Hugo, men “UIÅÆØ!” høres ut som et typisk jungelrop, og bilen ser ut til å ha samme farge som Jungeldyret.

Yeah, I find that the point is rarely well made and it’s often because the whole argument is a bit confused. People want to present it as being easier than it is.

Open registrations on the fediverse is a problem in general. Trolls abuse it to make accounts specifically to harass specific users. Those not being harassed will not notice this - before the “fetch all replies” feature was introduced they wouldn’t even see the replies. And because it seems so much better than other platforms unless you’re actively being targeted, you’ll have minority women or whatever raising the problem and a bunch of white men will respond that they have no idea what they’re talking about and that there is no problem and that they should just block the trolls. Blocking the trolls is just not efficient if they keep popping up all over the place.

One way to avoid this as a server admin is to defederate instances with open registrations that are being used in this way. But Mastodon.social is too big for this strategy to really be viable.

Of course, open registrations is also key to people bothering signing up in the first place. People are not used to resistance, and they don’t want to write a letter of motivation to sign up for social media. So the issue is not easily solved. Mastodon is working on better moderation tools. Hopefully they’ll manage to address it that way.

relies on the supplier being truthful with their documentation for their production

So the supermarket needs documentation and to take precautions, because they are to a certain extent responsible for the legality of the stuff they are selling.

In the real world supermarkets don’t just pick up carrots from some random guy showing up with a trailer full of them. In online markets, this is closer to how it works. Those running and profiting off online platforms should be accountable for what they sell. If Amazon lists electrical products that don’t meet fire safety standards on their website they should be held accountable for selling these products, even if they only act as middle men.

If companies can just take the money without any responsibility we’re fucked.

Honestly I think this is the greatest thing about the MTV performance. They’re at the top of their fame, are asked to perform at MTV, and take it as an opportunity to showcase other songwriters they appreciate rather than themselves. Helped teenage me get into a lot of stuff that has stuck with me though the years.

Absolutely. For me it’s one of those albums where I feel like I make the song injustice by listening to it in isolation. Everything just seems to fit together somehow.

It’s [performed] by Nirvana. Fair enough I’d say, especially since Kurt is very careful to give credit to all original performers/songwriters in MTG Unplugged.

This cover is what got me into Bowie in the first place. Love both versions equally I’d say.

I think it would be reasonable if this was a problem of small indie titles that do not have a publisher and basically wouldn’t exist without Steam. If Valve allows for content on their platform they have an obligation to ensure this content is legal. If a supermarket cooperates with a local farmer to sell their produce directly without middle men, it’s partly their responsible if the produce is made using illegal pesticides.

However, it seems unreasonable when it’s about stuff like Forza and FIFA. Then sue Microsoft and EA, for fucks sake. These games have publishers.

Karpe er antageligvis det beste, og definitivt det mest kommersielt suksessfulle, norsk hiphop har å by på.

Lett å være rebell i kjellerleiligheten din er et godt sted å starte. “Naver” betyr noen som lever av velferdspenger fra staten.

Du har norske aner og snakker norsk, så du er så norsk som noen norskamerikaner kan bli uten å flytte til Norge.

Vi i Europa syns ofte det er morsomt med Amerikanere som sier de er “irske” eller “italienske” når de aldri en gang har vært i landene - for oss er dette konkrete nasjonaliteter, og betydningen er ganske klar. Men for amerkanere er det så klart spørmål om identitet, og etter den definisjonen er det lite tvil om at du er norsk.

For min del mister norskamerikanere retten til å påberope seg norskhet om de ikke er tilhengere av offentlige velferdsgoder - om de forkaster ideene Norge et bygd på skal de ikke gå rundt og kalle seg norske. Typ Hegseth kan dra til helvete. DNA bryr jeg meg lite om.

Det er iallfall veldig kult at det fortsatt er Amerikanere som snakker norsk! Det er jo ikke så mange av oss, så morsomt at det finnes en gruppe Nordmenn som ikke er norske ute i verden.

Vokste du opp med noe av norsk kultur? Lefse eller rømmegrøt?

Og har du sett filmen “John: The Last Norwegian Cowboy”?