I didn’t but you made me miss my good old 56k modem, good old days.

Thanks buddy! Have a good weekend too.

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Haha good catch!

Fun observation: as a native, just like many natives, you have made a grammer mistake. “have known” and not “have know”. Might be a typo though.

My fun theory is that grammer is just a form of heuristic made up by humans to simplify understanding languages.

I’m not a native.

It’s also bring used by drive European entities that are not allowed to use WhatsApp and similar.

For Europe it’s FOSDEM.

There are two things that still fascinate my adult mind. How things looked in the past and how they’d look in future once they are abandoned.

Came here to say this. Instead of pronouncing your name on the phone, just read the NATO alphabets that constitute your name.

I think it’s okay, since people on all platforms create multiple accounts and throwaways.

Same here. btw, I just subscribed to !philosophy@lemmy.world , it has over 500 members, so you might want to check it out.

No, not really. I’m still learning my way around in Lemmy. I use wefwef.app and just recently the developer has added a subreddit import feature which might be able to find matching communities for you. though didn’t work great for me.

It’s very interesting indeed. A while ago I read Carl Popper’s Open Society and it’s Enemies. In that book he argues that Plato and to some extent Aristotle have developed underlying philosophical tools to support, for a lack of better term, “closed” societies. For example slaves rather remain slaves, farmers remain farmers, and rulers remain rulers. He argues that they contribute to a totalitarianism, and undermine democracy by discouraging being equal and in general “change”.

Take all this with a grain of salt, since it’s a while I’ve read the book, so can’t articulate it better. But your comment reminded me of all this, so I thought it might be interesting for you and other readers.

ps: I personally think there is no natural place for things, that’s us, sentient beings, who define that and give things meanings.

haha, yes, all hope is lost there…

You just need to master one rule: designate a place for each item and put them IMMEDIATELY back in their designated place after use.

This will happen again unless tools, culture, and conventions are made and taught in fediverse. Maybe communities having a certain mass should be subject to special rules, like irl.

It might be partially due to corrolation as well. People who don’t like to be controlled by corporate overlords and be their products, tend to use/switch to open alternatives.

I took your bait and posted to 196!

That’s the same problem as with Chrome. If internet for most people goes through Google Chrome (which it currently does: Android, smart devices, Electron Apps, Android apps, Edge, Brave, etc.) then the controlling entity can redefine the meaning of that protocol. In the above example it would be Google redefining the meaning of the web, see DRM, manifest v3, and similar efforts. Small players wouldn’t be able to play catch-up or disagree (it wouldn’t matter) and risk bring irrelevant.

The admins of defederating instances fear the same could happen to ActivityPub and fediverse.

The most notable one imo is Google semi killing XMPP. They started Goolge Talk based on XMPP and after many people started relying on it, they replaced XMPP with their proprietary protocols.