jherazob

Time to let go

It’s been freaking AGES since i last watched this, i should do it again to see what new things i catch this time, i suspect that even after this long there’s still stuff i haven’t caught with so damn much detail and reference density per second

“Give me your vector, Victor”

“Gimme clearance, Clarence”

“Eh?”

“Huh?”

“Who?”

I really should catch up with Shortpacked, haven’t read it in a decade

Until Gmail/Hotmail decides your IP is a spammer and forever you have deliverability issues from then on

Last i saw, the physical media version of their recent shows came with a box and a code to get it online, not actual discs, so they’re effectively getting out of the business of letting you own your media

Still have a faint hope for Relay

This is by the ChatGPT guy himself, all the rest of the crypto world is pretty much in flames

Your password is stolen you can change it. Try changing your eyeballs when somebody impersonates you.

I keep feeling that there’s a disaster being brewed there, the only people paying attention to young boys seems to be the alt right, and there’s a need for this which everybody seems to dismiss, every single one of the old style support structures for masculinity have been dismantled over decades, and while they were right to be dismantled all these boys still need the support to actually grow into decent people, and no one is giving it, and these crazies have noticed and are using it as breeding ground for soldiers for their cause. The decent people side must create something for them even if it’s to avoid them falling into these dens of craziness.

So, essentially it’s 4chan’s Bump system?

No, no, the seeds of the site’s downfall have been planted by the administration, you gotta remember these sites depend on a tiny amount of power posters, not to mention the moderator contingent, which they pissed off. Not all migrated away, but enough did to hurt the quality of the site, and any that remain will remember. They HAVE lost a lot and haven’t noticed yet. Sites that big will not fall in a day, it will be alive a decade from now, like Livejournal or Slashdot are still alive.

I believe there’s people already working on that, but no idea how they’re doing these days

You’re expecting something like the Digg to Reddit mass emigration. That likely will never happen again, the conditions for that are gone. What’s happening is what i predicted for years, people are moving away from the site but not going to a single “replacement” place as there’s just nothing like it, but to many. Be it the Fediverse, Discord, Facebook and related properties, various chats, even forums and freaking IRC.

And it’s also clear it’s not going to be a single massive exodus, but a slow decay over a long time. The site will still be alive ten years from now, like Livejournal and other relics of the past are still technically alive, but will slowly fade from relevance.

And one important thing: Sites like that depend on a few users, the so-called 90-9-1 rule explains it well, only a tiny, tiny percentage of users of the site produce the content it needs to survive, and they’re precisely the ones the administration pissed off. And not only that, but it depends on the moderators, without them the site would devolve to a sewer in no time, and they too have been shafted by the administration. A good portion of them have left the site for good, and the hit will be perceived in time, as they cannot be replaced easily.

Everything that made the site good is dying or dead, let it die, or just survive as a zombie. It will become a cesspool of reposts, recycled content and garbage, and any user that creates good content that still remains there will eventually leave at seeing what the site will turn into.

Password managers, people! They help!

Now I wonder about the empty intersections

It’s still increased attack surface, also you don’t need to be notorious for bad actors to want to steal your info or identity

The real question is how many power users and moderators left, the first are the ones that produce the most content, the second are the ones that prevent the place turning into a shithole. If an important fraction of those left, it WILL impact the site.

They’ve already been talking to the admins of those instances, they did it because there weren’t better options like in Mastodon, remember that Lemmy is still Alpha software

The reason was not right, they should have been removed from power ages ago, but at least this collateral damage is a tiny bit of justice served at the end.