Right but if you quit a job you're not quitting all jobs.
That's not true with social media outside of fringe options like Mastodon (Which is like quitting a FAANG job to work at Wendy's... and this is coming from someone that likes Mastodon)
To be honest, Mastodon does have some UX issues that prevent it from being as popular as it could potentially become. The lack of the ability to import your existing contact list is the big one. Mastodon tries very hard to focus on finding new people with common interests, but that's a very much secondary activity on any social media platform. It's important, yes, but it's secondary. And emphasizing that "instance is a community" doesn't help this much either because people often have more than one area of interest.
I'm trying to fix these issues with my own fediverse project.
The problem is deeper than that. I tried to persuade someone here that mastodon had the potential to grow as quickly as Twitter. Their response was “we don’t want it to,” more or less.
And probably with good reason. Not everything needs to be the largest thing it can be. It’s why bean sprouts are different from oak trees, as someone once put it.
I have one friend who set up his own Mastodon server. Had some fun with it and seemingly forgot about it. The server is still running tho.
Some people just don't have the need for social media, they have enough life without it. That's fine. For most, though, having some form of social media presence is beneficial. And the platform on which they have that presence better not be based on the scourge that is the attention economy.
I wish. I feel like this is the epitome of a specific type of slide-based presentation. This information could be covered in a single page of text, but ironically no one has the attention span to actually read... so instead we get low-density presentations with memes and cliches.
the monthly premium isn’t even the worst part, deductibles keep getting higher and it’s not uncommon to be surprised with a bill for services that weren’t covered by your plan (and it’s very difficult to ensure you’re 100% covered before receiving services, and nearly impossible in an emergency)
what can be done about these chan sites? can they be further deplatformed or are they all hosted in safe havens now? just last week I was reading about how the bsnes creator was driven to suicide
A lot of local science centers / children's museums have this kind of setup somewhere, and more often than not, I've seen a Kinect hanging out somewhere doing the topographic mapping.
