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I had a very interesting convo with an older non-tech person about centralized vs. decentralized social media because I told them one of my interests was independent social media when they asked.

They brought up BlueSky and asked my opinion, which I gave, and then they asked me specifically about the challenge of moderation and safety in the decentralized space.

From there, we had an extended convo about those issues, with me using my history with PV, the lessons I learned, and how I'm applying them to my projects.

It's the first time in a while someone interrogated my thoughts who wasn't involved in the tech industry, so I used it as an opportunity to practice explaining with as little tech speak as possible.

In the end, they were impressed with my context of the challenges of decentralized social media because I made it easy to understand, so they felt like they could make a contribution to the convo despite not having my technical background.

We didn't agree on everything but found common ground because we understood the core of the problem.

It was very encouraging.

i'm watching the people make games investigation about disco elysium and all i can surmise is that this is capitalism working exactly how it was designed.

a "good" product was made via the stolen exploitation of artists and the IP will continue to be an avenue of exploitation of new artists that are ignorant and just want to be apart of a cool project they can say they helped make.

this is always the financially successful path of art within capitalism. this is nowhere near the first time.

I wish more people would realize that the whole "nobody has any attention span anymore, just look at Tiktok" thing is ableist rhetoric. It's extremely closely related to the (false) claims of "overdiagnosis" and "epidemic" of ADHD.

It's also something that has been claimed for generation after generation, every time something more visual and/or accessible came into existence.

Sounds like a neat seminar topic.

Finally got around to sponsoring @gotosocial. It's not a lot, but it all adds up. If you want to support them, here's the link: https://opencollective.com/gotosocial

I saw a post earlier that basically said "the software development world absolutely has its own version of antivaxxers" and this feels like it just further confirms it

Like, how could a belief that is so obviously false once you actually reason through it ("ESM is viable for direct use in the browser"), and so frequently disproven by people still using build tools in practice... still become canonically accepted as true?

(See https://gist.github.com/joepie91/bca2fda868c1e8b2c2caf76af7dfcad3?permalink_comment_id=4578418#gistcomment-4578418 for the details)

Like, can this fucking myth of "ESM works in the browser" please die already, I am so so tired of it