@MightyPork I keep thinking the same too. But I worry if UBI will make everyone lazy or help them work on the things they're passionate / they care about.
“The history of finance is the history of sales. There are lots of great ideas, it’s not until someone pays enough to attract aggressive sales people that the ideas bear fruit.” —Aaron Brown, “A Wall Street Rocket Scientist
in King Arthur’s Court” https://storage.googleapis.com/wzukusers/user-28782334/documents/595d1aaba9c67K1RvYqt/Rocket%20Scientist%20in%20King%20Arthurs%20Court%20200507.pdf
Eerily applicable to programming languages and styles, among no doubt many, many other things.
@kensanata 😀. Well looks like it.. Anyone else doing such longform podcasts that you know of?
@kensanata dear god it really is a 6h podcast! Never knew you could do that, or anyone did it.
the answer to many of the questions about harassment is "rely on your instance admin" - but right now, visibility on how to pick an instance is so low, you could very easily not know:
- who your admin is
- what the CoC for your instance is
- how soon can you expect a response
So I'm seeing some discussion about why Mastodon isn't necessarily taking off with certain minorities (let's be honest, they mean POCs while trying to dance around the term, this place is super White asides from the apparent Japan contingent).
Here's some thoughts:
1. The whole notion of "instances" is really unintuitive. When you Google "Mastodon", you get an instance like mastodon.social, but it's not immediately apparent that M.S isn't your only option or WHY you'd want a different instance
@creatrixtiara also the point about impersonation kinda freaks me out as well (especially initially when a lot of people don't know about mstdn) 😕 Pretty sure there should be a systemwide reporting mechanism to avoid that.
@creatrixtiara so many important and relevant points in this thread. Thank you for articulating. Some of the language needs changing is Mastodon is to be considered to be used as a serious alternative to twitter. A lot of it is still unintuitive. It took some time for me as well to wrap my head around the concepts of instances and federation. But there's also another point that it might just help build the curiosity around the platform.
@DialMforMara creativity.cafe should be great. Ping @way for invite.
@marshallformula wow. 6 kids? How do you manage?
Hi there. I'm a UI designer and just a regular nerd. #introduction
