Ah yeah, my bad, I also see this on another part of the site regarding “zaps”:

From the beginning of the Nostr protocol, it was common to see Lightning invoices in notes.

I think I remembered it otherwise by coming at it from the decentralized comms angle instead of the cryptobro angle.

Do people have to make a living of it?

Can’t we have a place online where out data isn’t being sold, aren’t being bombarded with ads, or begged for subscriptions?

We can, and we do have some such spaces, thankfully. Another question to ask then is, could online workers have the sort of spaces where they’re not ceding their data to be sold by others, where they aren’t at the whims of corporate platforms wary of losing advertisers’ money, and being given scraps of the advertising money and pressed to split their subscription revenue with corporations making billions?

If people don’t want them in the fediverse, and people are sick of the corporate web (either in part or in whole because of online workers there), where are online workers to try to make their living?

I don’t know, but I do understand the exasperation at it all.

That’s what Nostr is supposed to be for. Looking for ways to monetize decentralized social media.

I thought it was more interested in making a more censorship resistant form of online communication, with the crypto/monetization junk being tacked on as kind of an afterthought (but then amplified because cryptocurrency people are nothing if not vocal).

Thanks for elaborating!

I think I better see what you meant now. Potential degradations in processing ability possibly from a combination of cognitive overload and exhaustion from the volumes of information encountered, both of which may be more frequently reached from a mixture of a lack of self-regulation, not knowing & exceeding one’s limits, and inadequate education and practice regarding the former two alongside reasoning abilities to more effectively navigate info without as often being overloaded/exhausted.

I would feel better if stories like this gave us background on the people involved. Who is Mike Macgirvin? I don’t want the person to dox themselves but I do want to know where he came from, what work he’s done before, what companies he’s worked for and what kind of people, organizations or groups he has worked with in the past. What school, university or program did he come out of? How old is he? What nationality? Where does he live and work now?

Did you miss the interview linked in the article? They interviewed Mike Macgirvin a few years back, and it goes into some of the background you’re wondering about.

This is just a hypothesis, but I believe that one of the roots of the problem is a lower ability to retrieve information, caused by increased exposure to advertisement.

I’m not sure I follow where you’re coming from here. Is the idea that over-exposure to advertisement is processed the same as being provided general information, reducing people’s inclination to seek out information independently, despite the fact that advertising is only the provision of specific, narrow information?

Yeah, some interfaces have somehow contorted themselves to being utterly inaccessible in efforts to be maximally accessible.

Whether that’s removing any immediately visible buttons whatsoever, only displaying vague icons (with no text labels) only to be seen in that software, or weirdly expecting a certain degree of old/new tech familiarity that may be too old for younger people or too new to make sense for many to be that familiar with yet.

Thought this was interesting coverage of a mix of different issues from inattentiveness, prompt resignation at slight effort, and tech and media illiteracy. It’s difficult to determine what all the contributors to these behaviors are across different age demographics, as you see it both with the young and the old in different forms.

There’s a sort of expectation from some of both to operate software more like simple machinery (appliances, more than applications) where you tap or click the buttons and it promptly and predictably responds (ideally), and when it doesn’t…To simply give up and try to find a different app that works as desired, or a person to help them.

This is only somewhat related, but posting without a language selected may help across Lemmy at least. Defaults should allow seeing all languages, but for those trying to curate their feeds more to the languages they know, having a language selected that they’re filtering out means lower visibility for your posts.

Also, at least in this post’s case, the language selected doesn’t match, so it doesn’t make much sense anyway. 😅

More to your point, however, I honestly don’t know. There has to be an interest from those for a different community/online space to go to, and then it has to meet whatever they’re interested in posting and discussing. I kind of think more topic-focused or themed communities/instances might have more of a draw for some people, as something more open-ended may leave them at a loss of what to post about and discuss. Whereas, something a little more focused that they may know about, want to discuss, or ask and learn about, might provide an easier orientation/onboarding experience.

Simple examples being like communities related to sports, games, tv/movies, books, music, events related to each like upcoming sports events, concerts, awards shows, etc. Keeping in line with what I mentioned above, you might make these related to those in your country, letting federation take care of seeing and keeping up with international sports, media, and events, providing your instance with more of a distinct local feed that is genuinely local.

Barring weight and health concerns?

The dream buffet is the dream buffet, so absolutely!

Behold, a Freeze-Flick of the Flicker!

Not worked overnights, but had close to’em, so I know the feeling. Here’s to hoping you find time for yourself after the errands are done!

Locking this for similar reasons as I did another recent post, except this one is explicitly encouraging violent action. Further, MasterBlaster420, you seem unable to have this discussion without resorting to insulting people left and right.

See the following:

• Comment 1.
• Comment 2.
• Comment 3.
• Comment 4.

With this in mind, it would probably be wiser to permanently ban you from this community, but instead I’m giving a temporary ban. I’d encourage you to reflect on how you approach discussing this subject. Rather than suggesting general violence for enacting change, read further on the histories relating to the subject and really engage with them.

Recognize why there’s an aversion to violence, who takes advantage of it to subvert its aims, and whether it may be better to inspire and organize those that align with you, than repel them into the arms of those you oppose.

Yes, however without experience with Lemmy’s implementation, it wasn’t clear what the differences were. From what I’ve read of Lemmy’s basic implementation, i.e. submit a reason with your registration/application, this didn’t sound that far from it.

As I read it, Pixelfed’s request for more information form is a good addition (better than the awkward roundabout way you’d have to handle it otherwise, as I think I recall seeing come up with Lemmy), albeit as it’s optional we’ll have to see how well it’s used in practice.

Is there something more to it that’s not highlighted in the linked blog post?