The best part of reddit, for me, was that it focused primarily on the content, which had to be able to stand largely on its own. Usernames were attached to content, but they were secondary.
Other social media platforms are largely about the individual, the personality. The content, while present, seems to be secondary. Influencers run amok and are an advertisers wet dream.
Squabbles, self-admittedly [0], tries to combine these approaches.
When I look at their home page, as well as a few communities, the only thing that really stands out on each post is the "title bar" with someone's name and a follow link. There's no quick way to see what the content is about (unless it's an image), without actually diving into the meat of the content. I can't make a quick judgement call of whether I want to read the content or not, unless I base it on the person's name.
For some, that may be great. For me, it misses the mark and falls too far on the Twitter side of the hybrid approach.
If people find it a useful format, then I hope the site thrives. But I don't think it's the right fit for the niche that made reddit great.
The advice we get in New Zealand is to get underneath something strong like a table. Sitting where I am now I could probably make it under a table in under 5 seconds.
The bigger effect maybe is that prepares you mentally for the impact, so you're already planning your next steps and aren't in quite as much surpise/panic as if you had no warning.
When things are collapsing, seconds can be the difference between life and death. Even if a system like this only saves a few extra percent of lives lost in a major earthquake, it sounds worth it to me.
> The advice we get in New Zealand is to get underneath something strong like a table
Depending on how earthquake-proof a building is, this could be bad advice. If you're in an earthquake-proof building, a table will protect you from falling objects. If the building you're in collapses, you'll want to be next to something that's not very compressible, like a bed or a couch. The collapse will leave open triangles next to objects like this, which are the best place to survive a collapse.
New Zealand doesn't really have brick or concrete buildings (except high-rises). Lots of very old weatherboard. And you're right, the advice these days isn't "get under" something, it's "get next to something big or under the doorway".
I've used Firefox as a daily driver for over 15 years, and while I do think it treats me more like an idiot than it used to, and don't like that, I still feel far more in control, trusted, and able to configure it than I do with chrome.
Could, but it should be mentioned that power outages can and do happen where I am, so on a few occasions having this solar setup actually meant even when my house had absolutely no power (and there's no phone signal at the house), we could still have internet connectivity.
The sun is always shining somewhere on earth, so maybe it's possible [1] to connect all our grids together and transmit power from the light side to the dark side. Whether this is cheaper than buffering the power in huge energy storage systems, I have no idea.
I was going to link the appropriate XKCD where organised attackers are panicing as they realise they're dealing with a sysadmin muttering about uptime..
Other social media platforms are largely about the individual, the personality. The content, while present, seems to be secondary. Influencers run amok and are an advertisers wet dream.
Squabbles, self-admittedly [0], tries to combine these approaches.
When I look at their home page, as well as a few communities, the only thing that really stands out on each post is the "title bar" with someone's name and a follow link. There's no quick way to see what the content is about (unless it's an image), without actually diving into the meat of the content. I can't make a quick judgement call of whether I want to read the content or not, unless I base it on the person's name.
For some, that may be great. For me, it misses the mark and falls too far on the Twitter side of the hybrid approach.
If people find it a useful format, then I hope the site thrives. But I don't think it's the right fit for the niche that made reddit great.
[0] - https://squabbles.io/about