Matrix does not have seamless desktop sharing or voice chat, and has a drastically higher executive cost. It also does not solve the information silo issue.

The fediverse as a whole is promising but likely needs to mature a bit longer. Theres a lot of potential issues that have yet to be worked through.

This is a fantastic read. I wasnt around for the prime days of forums but I did experience them a bit.

I’m becoming extremely concerned about the number of topics and projects that are migrating to Discord. My main issue is that it is not and never will be publically indexed, and among other problems, is itself a corporate walled garden we consider to be “one of the good ones”.

I really hope we find and establish a “low executive cost” solution before the next time Discord fumbles (which is inevitable) and we can claw some of that activity back.

But people are so used to seamless voice and video chat nowadays - and that’s a technical hurdle that AFAIK, no open-source self-hostable projects have come close to solving.

Yeah, this is a big part of why I stopped using discord recently. Not yet sure of any alternatives but leaving is step one.

Wouldn’t that be a sail by?

Do people actually analyze each others visage like this or is it just because he’s a public figure

I’m suddenly very anxious about every picture I’ve ever taken of myself

I went to a conference this weekend, and it slowly dawned on me how every single one of the vendors was selling their app hosted on AWS. That’s all it is. Just different flavors of AWS.

Even if you dont interact with AWS directly, every business needs business services - you can bet that no matter what you’re buying or who you’re buying it from, some of your money is going directly to AWS marketplace.

Oh man. If I need to download an app to pay for a meal I’m never going back to that place again.

This is so sweet. Thank you for sharing your joy with us.

The moment my computer refuses to obey my commands sent from the physical layer, is the moment it will cease to exist on this physical plane

This feels like its establishing a precedent for widespread adoption/implementation of AI into consumer devices. Manufactured consent.

“We compute one pixel… we hallucinate, if you will, the other 32.”

Between this and things like Sora, we are doomed to drown in illusions of our own creation.

All I know is that I’ve never connected my TV to the internet and never gotten ads on it

Not saying more sinister things aren’t possible, but for my TV to connect to some kind of mesh net, it would probably need a firmware update, which its not going to get, because again, its not connected to the internet.

Iirc that’s specifically for amazon devices, this was regarding Samsung TVs

Don’t connect it to the internet

How can I acquire one of these deployable friends

wish this was me

Implying you can control or induce these hyperfixations in a productive way is disingenuous at best, measurably harmful at worst.

If you work in a job that can use use the chaos in a productive way that’s great, but I’m willing to bet you still face abnormally high difficulty with general life tasks, and consistently struggle to enforce a work/life balance.

You’re not helping people with ADHD by posting this. You’re establishing an unattainable standard for people that are already doing everything in their power just to get by.

Iceland Air?

I had one of these, not bad at all. Sometimes a simple sandwich is all you need when you’re sleep deprived on a red-eye flight.

If this works, could you theoretically cover crop fields in solar panels as well? That’s a ton of usable space

Until I joined Lemmy I had no idea how militant vegans could be. I sorta just assumed they were a different brand of vegetarian.

I’m not opposed to their ideaology in any way, but after reading the comments on a few posts that found their way into my feed… I had to block their communities. It didn’t seem likely that I’d be reading any productive discourse there.