Yes I do think giving them brainspace would be unethical but I’d agree with you that in practice is not impactful. That being said I imagine if employed at mass scale would have positive effects on our society. Attention matters in how society develops.
That’s the great thing about decentralization - we can migrate very easily!
It has gotten much better. More content and general activity and nutjobs at .ml and similar got mostly isolated from the rest of the network.
I think fediverse is really shaping up as a strong reddit alternative. Most pop subjects are mirrored here and the vibe is very similar to early reddit so there no real reason to go to reddit other than super niche communities like of a tv show or something.
Most props go to the lemmy.world team as it kept a consistent big sane network running that keeps the project stable! If .world never happened I think Lemmy would have remained cess pool of social rejects like most reddit alternatives like Voat or lemmy.ml
I would say that giving attention is a similar reward to giving money or power. It’s better not to.
No. Not as long as the artist gets benefits.
There are billions of meaningful ways to entertain yourself. Don’t be a sheep - it’s your world.
Give most of it away to free software foundation and put couple million to an low yield ethical index fund and start packing for some traveling.
LLMs actually revitalized movement to move away from excel. I think it’s done for in the next 10 years.
Not the same issue. Wayland was needed because xorg architecture just cannot be backwards compatible and would be super difficult risky to retain legacy. Not the same issue here
Bet they are not starting fresh. Instead of using 35 year old code base they are using 20 year old code base.
Nextcloud is free software (aGPL v3) though so your worries are very misleading.
I have a native meadow lawn and it’s awesome. Zero maintenance, barely any watering (just peak dry season) and incredibly beautiful. The ecosystem takes care of itself as long as you don’t buff one side by accident.
There’s difference between making an encryption tool and hiring top psychologists to design abusive systems.
What actually might help: hold people who design these tools criminally liable. Everyone knows what they are doing but you can’t really say no to your employer because “don’t worry you’re not liable” so everyone continues on building the Torment Nexus.
It’s wayyyy too close either way.
Exactly if I can have the same house with actually more garden space as I dont need a car I’d choose that every time.
Even then it’s not a very useful question as car =/= car. Having a house with a prius that you use once in a blue moon to visit your grandma in the country side is very different from driving a pickup truck every day.
Rigged question: would you rather live in a big house or an apartment? Obviously people will choose a big house duuuh
Once I joined a company with “unlimited paid time off” and turned out it was more like “no time off and maybe check some things on the weekends”. They also fired me day before my equity should have hit then had the audacity to ask me to organize macbook return - it’s still gathering dust on my shelf lol
Either way I still got paid a lot of money and it was a good learning though more in life lessons rather than professional experience.
Funny how Google couldn’t defeat seo spammers and yet claim they can keep AI safe. We are so fucked
It’s true organic growth is basically dead. There’s very little reason to share expert insights now and while the old system sucked due to seo gaming but there was some actual value there even if buried deep.
More content is good in a system like Lemmy which is designed around filtering. So continue posting!