We’re talking about the need for a system to deal with major access of a main facebook/insta/twitter etc… to a majority of people.

IE of the scale that someone can go “Hey I bet my aunt that I haven’t talked to in 15 years might be on here, let me check”. Not a common occourance in a closed off discord community.

Also, noting that doesn’t fully solve the primary problem… of still being at the whims and controls of a single point of failure. of which if Discord Inc could at any point in time decide to spy on closed rooms, censor any content they dislike etc…

10th largest instance being like 10k users… we’re talking about the need for a solution to help pull the literal billions of users from mainstream social media

To me the reality of it is so damn stupid, If this were back to lying about quake, that’s one thing. He’s claiming on games with continual progression however. Of which even if you have amazing skill, it’s meaningless without time. IE it would be well understood that if someone is in those leaderboards legitimately, they’ve been living the NEET lifestyle (IE spending almost all waking hours playing the game), not say… on a nation tour following around a presidential candidate, while also forming a new government consulting group, spending considerable time on twitter as a user… and being a micromanaging incompetent CEO at 4+ companies.

Concept is however that if a new instance is detatched from the old one… then it’s basically the same story of leaving myspace for facebook etc… we go through the long vetting process etc… over and over again, userbase fragments reaching critical mass is a challange every time. I mean yeah if we start with a circle of 10 trusted networks. One goes wrong it defederates, people migrate to one of the 9 or a new one gets brought into the circle. but actual vetting is a difficult process to go with, and makes growing very difficult.

Isn’t that basically the same result though…

Problem with tech oligarchy is it just takes one person to get corrupted and then he blocks out all opinion that attacks his goals.

So the solution is federation, free speech instances that everyone can say whatever they want no matter how unpopular.

How do we counteract the bots…

Well we need the instances to verify who gets in, and make sure the members aren’t bots or saying unpopular things. These instances will need to be big, and well funded.

How do we counter these instance owners getting bought out, corrupted (repeat loop).

I mean really depends whether or not he manages to continue to succesfully own the US government. He made basically statements along the lines of if trump loses the election he could go to jail. I assume he’s betting on either the trump administration killing democracy… or being able to buy the next election too. Or perhaps just often enough that the supreme court never gets fixed.

I mean both… obviously if you want to get on trumps good side you combine bribing with censoring content he doesn’t like, and making sure not to censor or even fact check his lies.

Wonder how he’d fare against trump at golf.

Doubles down too, because within a week the novelty wears off and the rich people don’t use it, it’s just sitting in the corner, collecting their data, possibly raking in a subscription fee that they forgot about.

Obviously the point is selective enforcement… IE Musk can ban anyone “impersonating” himself or any of the white supremicists he likes… while he can chose not to enforce the rules on people that may be trying to damage his opponents.

Much like the “no negativity” rule.

Oh one further side note, gatebox didn’t go under, nor did the service fully discontinue. It just lost the license for Hatsune Miku. So in short it’s only unhappy for the sort of people that actually go all in to the mindset. (IE the guy could go to one that says and does all of the same things as his old one did, but not with the same face and voice, and probably could have avoided the problem if he started with something that was property of gatebox, and not licensed from a game).

Don’t have instagram so I cant look past the first page of thumbnails… but is one of those pics of him with a girl in a wedding dress? Or is he just at a friends wedding with a life sized miku doll.

What’s more weird to me is… acting like this is new…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkcKaNqfykg

Right though that’s my point.

Minimum specs etc… is something PC gamers are more than used to… but also why there’s a large console market that doesn’t game on PCs.

My fear is bad acting OEMs… playing on user ignorance to assume automatically that the steamOS logo means it can run most games, and shipping out hardware that utterly fails at that use purpose, and as uneducated consumers may think the “runs steamOS”, logo could be some form of endorsement from valve to imply it in fact is suitable for gaming.

I’m not even talking linux incompatibility… but lets just say they use a super underpowered graphics card. or very little ram, or hard drives too small to install most games on etc…

Fact is manufacturers have made comperably stupid decisions. I’ve seen a lot of laptops for sale with windows 10, and 32 GB hard drives that can’t even be updated simply because even with nothing on them windows can’t fit both itself and an update. Generally speaking… when allowed to, manufacturers can release some pretty damn stupid builds that often aren’t designed to run what they are marketed to run.

I fully agree that was “a problem”. but I fully hold to the fragmented hardware also being a significant problem. IMO the steam deck still significantly makes gains from being a consistant hardware target for dev’s to base things on, in addition to basically having little to no consumer confusion, if a game says “will run on steam deck”, it’s safe to assume, it will run on a steam deck. This time around valve specifically hasn’t released a steam deck 2, because they want to avoid any hardware confusion.

While I like the concept… isn’t that a bit of what killed the initial steam machines. IE they basically encouraged everyone and their grandmother to release one… and the end result was the name was dilluted down so badly that no one knew what a steam machine was.

and, what happens when say the community overwhelms, say a conservative facebook group, could add a community note saying “the geese are dissapearing near hatian communities, and there are x missing cats and dogs”. While voting against notes actually reporting the Mayor, Police etc… having denied the claims and also noting that the missing animals are normal for any region of said size.

I mean that’s a problem… but it sounds like the problem gets worse.

Realistically fact checking always lies in the problem of how do we know the fact checkers aren’t corrupted. Unfortunately popular vote seems just as dangerous way of trying to back it.

I disagree, I think nuclear is a half decent stop gap. Especially when noting renewables aren’t a universal perfect solution for every location. (IE not everywhere has good sun or wind). Doesn’t mean we should 100% move to nuclear, but the faster we can get rid of coal the better.