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Adam Lauretig
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@BayesForDays not totally flavorless, but this is close: https://www.skratchlabs.com/products/clear-hydration-drink-mix?variant=39656422932551
@[email protected] I remember when I described the w2v analogy task to my dissertation chair, he was really excited about the idea, and the ability to potentially extent it beyond "text." He was an Americanist, and one example he thought of was precedent in court cases: given one case, "subtract" another, and where does that leave you?
@maria_antoniak I think the point a bunch of people made about fractured/chaotic leadership rings home about Masto too! If there's no one to 1) have a decisive vision, and 2) be the "buck stops here" person, chaos results, important decisions pile up, and boring but necessary work doesn't get done.
@maria_antoniak i think your post is great! I remain convinced that the modal Mastodon user is the kind of Linux user who thinks Ubuntu users are “soft/weak/coddled,” and they view the problems of Masto as a badge of honor. That they could figure it out and the “normies” couldn’t is seen as a good thing. This also explains why the more “hard core” Linux distros have faded into obscurity (ex: https://www.infoworld.com/article/3109830/why-did-gentoo-linux-fade-into-obscurity.html).
@djpardis I thought this essay summarized some of the broader cultural issues well: https://erinkissane.com/blue-skies-over-mastodon
Or, as I put it on the bird site: "*I* got frustrated with Mastodon, and I’m an Ubuntu user!"
Erin KissaneI meant to be finishing a post about books I'm reading but I got distracted and wrote ~2500 words about Mastodon and Bluesky and the related things (welcoming design, insular culture) I've been stewing on for a few months
And also about vegetarian meat substitutes in the 1980s, which were *really something*
@djpardis on Masto: If Alice is on server 1, and Bob is on server 2, and Bob replies to Alice, there's only a x% chance Alice sees Bob's post.
Esp because Masto doesn't default to a particular server for everyone, people may not be aware this is happening.
@djpardis I think the big issue is that Mastodon is inconsistent w/how federalization works. I also think the vibe is very clean-cut and professionalized.
Bluesky feels more consistent, which I do then helps w/discovery, also, the vibe is a little more deranged, a little wilder.
@djpardis I'm on it. It's not bad, think I like it more than mastodon - it's less fragmented.