Where do we go from here?

Looks like oblivion, frankly

Well I’d lean on the shoulder of giants in terms of the actual service and not do it completely from scratch given we’ve got Facebook-likes in the fediverse, you could suggest to them. But basically yes from a network perspective unfortunately

Although you have given me an idea for an angle that the fediverse is perfect for: set up an instance for your local area

That allows you to also do the “screw untrustworthy big tech, keep things local with people you know” kind of angle.

Also obviously a fair bit of work, and you still have to ultimately convince people to use it, but worth highlighting regardless.

You unfortunately are coming at the problem from the wrong direction.

The only social network they will want to use is the one with all their friends on it; and for the older generations, that’s basically just Facebook.

In order to get them to move you’d need to get their friends to move, and in order to get their friends to move, you’ll need to get their friends to also move. It’s called the network effect and it’s why it’s incredibly hard for any non-established social networks to gain much of a market share.

Your best bet (which is by no means a guarantee) is to wait for the latest Facebook scandal to be in the news, and chat to them about it whilst they’re watching it on TV. Plus add a bit more fuel by doing the ol’ “oh this reminds me of something else I was reading a couple of months ago…” And have some other recent scandals in your back pocket to fire out. Bonus points if you can already establish yourself on something like Friendica, which will allow you to say “yeah I quit Facebook a while ago, the company running it just seems skeevy, I’ve been using friendica instead for a bit now” or something like that

Then you have to hope that registers enough as a talking point amongst them and their friends that it sticks. But you have an uphill struggle ahead with no certainty of success.

What a ridiculous take, thanks for saving me the time

Okay so it wasn’t just me that thought the title was a weird way of wording it

These are two of the best games of all time

I’m not sure there’s much better value you can get for £1.90

Also there’s a cool noclip documentary on the making of this remaster

Yeah, I was gonna say, it kinda needs to have azadirachtin in it by definition.

If someone sells you neem oil that’s lacking, they’re just a con man.

If you like roguelite games, grab this, you’ll definitely get £2.50 worth of value from it

Well there’s some truth in that it’s not entirely it, the price is reduced because the data they get from tracking your spending habits has a value

They’re not pushing people to these cards for fun

A tenner says this is due to the component price inflation we’re in the middle of

Okay why the fuck is the exact comment I planned to make the only comment that already exists in this thread

I’m surprised they were still making it tbh, I assumed it was just existing stock

I think if you get a smart lock from AliExpress you’re basically inviting someone to rob your house.

Tuya devices are not known for being particularly secure

There are plenty of hobbies where you can happily enjoy it and only ever spend little if anything.

On the other hand, I’ve found it’s pretty uncommon to find a hobby where you can’t optionally fall down an expensive rabbit-hole of some kind, usually around any kind of equipment or tools you might need as part of some hobby.

Thankfully for most hobbies that kind of thing is not required to enjoy it. You don’t need a fancy guitar to enjoy playing; you can read books from the library, you don’t need to collect your own; in most big enough cities (in Europe at least) you don’t even need to own a bike to go for a cycle (though regularly using bike rental schemes might be a sign to try and get a bike, doesn’t need to be fancy)

Just replied to the other comment

This one is probably my favourite

Great views up at the top of the tower

I was lucky(?) enough that the volcano was going off whilst I was up there a couple of years ago and got some great pictures

That’s a bit sad

They were kinda little time capsules of various corners of YouTube adjacent internet culture over time

The chances of a true philanthropist beating out the psychopaths currently at the top of the chain, is basically nil. They will always fight dirtier.

You need to ensure a government can exert power over the largest organisations in its country. If that ever becomes an issue, the organisation might start behaving as a de facto government of its own and start treating the actual government as a vassal.

Basically we need to kick corporatist politicians out of our governments before they finish rolling out the red carpet for the end of democracy, and start chopping up and/or nationalising these proto-megacorps. If only a few control the tools that put us all out of work, we’re not getting anything close to utopia.

I’m not recommending it, I’m describing why saying it adds no security is silly.

The keys being compromised on some motherboards doesn’t mean the whole concept is suddenly inert for every single user

If everyone has a copy of my passwords and authenticator keys, that wouldn’t suddenly make 2 factor auth a compromised idea.

Hell, even if you are one of those people running a machine with the compromised keys, it’s still going to block malware that was written before the keys were leaked unless malware authors have also figured out time travel.