• JeffCraig@citizensgaming.com
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    It’s crazy how many people will just click accept on security warning them that an app will access literally everything on their phone.

    It’s also crazy how many people don’t even know that Threads is Meta… where the f have these people been for the past 10 years?

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          I’ve never cared for influencers, but they also never effected me personally. Until last summer… I was blueberry picking one morning with my mom. We picked 3 very full buckets and called it a day and headed for the checkout hut. We’re hot sweaty and tired and just wanted to checkout and go home, but we were suddenly blocked in the middle of a row of blueberries with no way to get out! Why? Because someone was photographing a lady in a sundress and hat caressing the blueberry bushes. We ended up walking through the photo and I’ve never felt such “get off my lawn” sentiment before.

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            Lol for real though, ruining an influencer’s shot - or even better, a live broadcast - when they’re being an obnoxious asshole gives me no small degree of pleasure.

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              When my wife and I got a chance to go to musee d’orsey in Paris there was a beautiful manual clock on show. There was this annoying influencer standing about 15 ft in front of it and not letting anybody get closer. She would constantly whine that they were in her shot.

              I walked right up to the mechanisms of the clock to inspect it while she just yapped at me and my wife laughed and laughed and laughed.

              Best experience in Paris by far.

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                Lmao that honestly sounds delightful! Hope you guys enjoyed the rest of your trip too!

                Tangentially, did you get a chance to catch a performance of the string quartet that plays in Sainte-Chapelle cathedral? If you’re at all into that style of music, it’s one of the coolest experiences I have seen like that, and I cannot recommend it enough. The cathedral itself is gorgeous, the acoustics are absolutely breathtaking, and the quartet is like crazy talented. Can’t recommend that enough.

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                  We sadly did not get to take that in. But the second chapter of the story is how two canadians visiting paris brought covid to basel switzerland, and caused a whole company campus to close. All while ending up trapped in .ch for ten months with only two suitcases…

                  But that chapter is for another post.

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      where the f have these people been for the past 10 years?

      They’ve been giving away their data for all that time and it hasn’t visible affected them negatively.

      Of course it will eventually and they’ll Pikachu face then but that’s hardly comforting.

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        Will it? Why? It won’t affect most people personally ever, hence why most people don’t really care.

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          I fear you are right. While I do believe that further policital abuse of that data is inevitable (Trump or the Malaysian civil war were at least partial results of campaigns of Cambridge Analytica, for example), people probably won’t see the impact data analysis had and how they’ve been manipulated.

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      I think security warnings are kind of like cancer warnings in the state of California. If virtually everything causes cancer then warnings become just a normalized part of life.

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          What it comes down to is that you never get a choice. Over and over again, it’s always sign this 10,000 word EULA written by our lawyers to give us all the rights, now, and any rights we want to have in the future, or you can throw that $800 device in the trash if you don’t click yes. Likewise, if you want to participate in modern socialization, sign or fuck off.

          There’s no point in reading the EULA, because it’s not like you can negotiate for better terms. If you do read it, you just get to find out how it screws you in detail. It’s always take it or leave it, and somehow they paid the devil to make sure that this is popular with everyone else, so you walk through our gate on our terms, or you get shut out of everything, everywhere.

          It doesn’t even matter if you’re smart enough to wade through the agreement, it’s still take it or leave it, and the dummies don’t even try. They know the deal, they click the button. The smart people click it, too, they just feel worse about it. Take it or leave it. Fatigue isn’t the right word. Coercion. That’s the one.

          Having any leverage in consumer transactions is becoming a rapidly fading memory. Everyone has just given up. Remember when you could buy a TV without signing an onerous legal document that a rational person would never sign, in order to use it? Pepperidge Farm remembers.

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    I’ve said this a bunch of times, but Mastodon’s use of a chronological feed is what kills it. What it really needs is for the default tab to be a “trending” tab, cause that’s what users want to see.

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    No, it’s mastodon but centralized. It takes all the difficulty out of signing up for the fediverse, like finding a server. I said it from day 1 on mastodon. We will never see mass adoption until there’s a simple sign up process. People like centralized because it’s easier.

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      I’ve been trying to hammer this point home.

      I wish devs would wake up and create a default easy mode sign-up for the fediverse with an option to click “advanced sign-up” if you choose to do so.

      The easy mode would just automatically assign an instance based upon some algorithm.

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          Well, like asking users what their preferences are and select the servers based on the criteria users have chosen?

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            Hmm actually yeah this is a good idea, but the problem is that there’s so many servers that I feel that after choosing criteria there’d still be a bunch of servers in the list and the problem remains, right? Just bouncing ideas. I quite like this idea though.

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              Then the algo recommends the one with the lowest load and hides the others behind a … icon or something.

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                Mm this could be a problem because server load is too unpredictable. I would actually say just randomize the list, so that it kinda does its own “load balancing” by incentivizing to pick whatever random top one it selected?

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                  Yeah, whatever metric. Could also use a mix of number of users, some form of reputation measurement, uptime, etc.

                  I mostly meant that the system should pick a “best server” and recommend that. Smarter people than me can come up with the best metric.

                  But swamping the user with >100 servers to pick from is counterproductive.

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        I wish the devs would wake up and create a default easy mode sign-up for creating a web site. The web will never catch on with all this complicated stuff.

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          Honestly I like the fact that there is some difficulty in the sign up. I think it brings a better quality of people to the Fediverse.

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      How is it difficult to find a server? Just pick whatever server you come across first and create an account.

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        You tell the average dude about how servers exist and the first instinct is that it matters, so they stop, fret about the importance, look for a second, then just drop it because they dont give enough hoots yet to invest more effort versus using a centralized service.

        Want ppl to join, don’t even tell them about servers. No choice paralysis, no fear of being wrong, nada

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          I haven’t used Mastodon, but on Lemmy the instance you are on totally matters.

          For example, beehaw.org is pretty happy to defederate. It tries to give you a more moderated and curated environment. Feddit.de is slow, laggy and often outdated, and they just deactivated federation in general (at least they said so, to me federation seems to be still working) to avoid that session stealing vulnerability.

          In general, federation is pretty buggy right now, with federated posts/comments having a decent chance of not being replicated.

          So the choice of instance really does make a difference. But there is no help at all up front to choose the correct instance.

          And just hopping over to another instance is also not a great solution, since people are used to build their social media account. It’s not some anonymous throw-away thing.

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            I the case of lemmy, i feel like it’s definitely some anonymous throw-away thing. We’re not here to build a follower base are we?

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              Much less than on other platforms, that’s true, but after a while you do start recognizing usernames again.

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                Sure there’s exceptions like SrGrafo on Reddit but most are here to lurk around or engage in random discussions

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          The average dude who can’t figure out how to sign up for an account on a website can go fuck off back to Facebook, where SOMEHOW they managed to create an account.

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        It looks like most people don’t have enough braincells to do such a simple task. Isn’t it just nice to live in a world like this?

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          At least this is one thing that’s not as bad as decades ago. Just remembering how computer illiterate most of the developed world used to be.

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          Most people weren’t ever taught about this shit and had no reason to spend time learning about it on their own. Most of us are either professional or amateur nerds, figuring this out wasn’t really that hard because of our circumstances rather than our ~superior brains~

          They have just as many braincells as you, throw that attitude away.

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      Centralization is the core problem of social media though. It allows a single entity control over the data and as soon as you have that, you have Zuck.

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        Centralization isn’t the problem, privatization is. If the single entity that controlled the data was democraticly controlled and not run for profitability it’d be the best of all worlds.