I have been stepping away, but I just love the good parts of tech too much. I still believe in the good it can do for my life and others. I do, like anyone, hate how it’s been monopolized over time by solely profit-driven groups and interests. Unfortunately, that stuff is rewarded by society over genuinely useful applications.

I’ve found a threshold of usefulness with every piece of tech I have. Once I can identify that it’s bullshitting and trying to make itself seem useful through manipulation (ex: Twitter, overpriced subscriptions), that’s when I cut it off. Too many things that manipulate you and try to take your attention or money while providing little in return.

Other stuff like my self hosting solution, game consoles, etc. are set up in ways that are beneficial. It’s not perfect, the AI industry will invade where they can, but I feel fortunate to be in a position where I am aware of ways I can have more control over my tech and therefore can dodge some of the predatory practices. Still though, sometimes I just give up on the endless YouTube videos and read a book instead. Full analog living isn’t the way though.

The fact that we can just look at this and just act like it’s normal is wild, guess I shouldn’t be surprised since it’s 2025 but like…Boston Dynamics only had the dogs 10 years ago.

idk man I haven’t seen anyone complaining about it on Bluesky

This is a net positive, nice to have a social media where verification checks are…actually used for verifying the person behind an account

I think I’m slowly starting to understand the use cases of these small form factor computers. Pretty much Swiss Army knives in computer form.

Makes sense that people are trying to sell them commercially now, even if they are bit experimental and don’t have a defined use case as of yet.

Plus it just looks cool.

Going to play devil’s advocate here.

Bluesky is just…better than any Fediverse microblogging platform. In terms of UI, discoverability, and keeping a balance of users in the community.

Mastodon sucks for regular people. And none of the other better platforms like Firefish ever gain enough steam to beat Mastodon because of existing issues in the structure of the Fediverse and ActivityPub (this also includes Mastodon itself to an extent).

I’m shocked people are actually against Mastodon adding a common feature. Seems like one of the gripes with it for ages has been the lack of features and polish (I personally stopped using Mastodon in part because of this)

Glad they are going ahead with it…it doesn’t really hurt anything and isn’t any different than just screenshotting posts.

Surprised the NBA didn’t veto this one like they did with CP3 and the Lakers

Jiraiya from Naruto Shippuden. Felt like my own family member passed when they killed them off.

ok this is the type of FOSS software I live for

It’s just like Peertube. Cool concept in theory, but breaks down once you consider the less fun parts of it (storage volume).

Gonna be really hard to figure out how to make solid Fedi alternatives to image/video-based social media.