@Tijn 1 is good, 2 is not as good but still good, 3 is a car crashing simulator, 4 is ironically a crime in itself. Which I once found abandoned in a store and own, making me both a witness and accessory to a crime.

@Tijn it would be great if the people who valued it at trillions would explain why. The idea that were unlimited 250k villas on an endless beach and everyone in the world would be spending more in their virtual assets than in real life, so the financial potencial was infinite? That's like me making the Billion Dollar Homepage, and evaluating it at that value.

@zorinlynx @dosnostalgic that's why all that is for. They have built something where their feelings are constantly being rewarded and reinforced to prevent any sort of "are we the baddies" realisation. Over here the easiest grift is being under 23 and a massive reactionary willing to say anything that will please who's holding the purse. It's interviews, op-eds, maybe even TV appearances, then it's no show jobs, etc. How can they be wrong when they're constantly being rewarded?

@textfiles I lost count of how many YouTubers made a big announcement that they were finally making enough via Patreon and what little was left from ad revenue to quit their jobs and what they did with the money and free time? Announce a new separate project on Kickstarter, just produce worse content even less regularly, or announce BIG PROJECTS the end result might well have been text to voice from a wiki article. I don't think that's how it is supposed to work.

@winampskins oh, look, it's Sonique.

@ctrlaltrees Ultimately I'd rather put the decision at the hand of people if they want to have their posts commented, maybe just allowing people they also follow or follow them, maybe by having that to be a request like messages on meta platforms from people you're not following, maybe with community whitelists people can subscribe, idk.

@ctrlaltrees You've probably heard of US tech writer Taylor Lorenz who every once in a while says QTs are an important part of her job to add context and then comments get extremely heated up.
I can see both sides of the argument - yes, the function has been a major factor in toxicity there, used a lot to drive dogpiling, but also to add context or say "hey this person is cool, give them a follow". Personally I think the feature should be implemented, but not as it is on twitter.

@ctrlaltrees mid to late 90s was such a boom era to weird multimedia material. It's like every dev got a copy of Macromedia and said "let's pick a topic at random and make a cd rom with it".

@taylorlorenz that said, I agree that QRT is a valuable tool, but it needs something else to not devolve into "look at this mf" behaviour. If I see people on birdsite saying they're not joining Mastodon because they can't get their dunks here, then surely they got one part of the equation right. Maybe allowing people to create community lists of "trusted" individuals (while at the same time also allowing people to have a blacklist w/o having to block) and who select who else can QRT, idk.