As someone who actually writes haiku, I hate the "write a haiku" ChatGPT example as it produces these stilted, lifeless eighth grade poems that people nevertheless copy-paste into their work.
yea and if you think a bit more, you could see it's applicable to almost everyone. This article explains how it's counter-productive to do anything else, there are working on new molecules that will be found later than similarly they inhibit something else..
I'm trying to be cool? That is certainly a new one to me as I wasn't even trying to be witty. I was legitimately impressed at a far more interesting answer encompassing the anti-intellectualism mass reaction and philosophical framework. I am more curmudgeonly yelling at clouds.
What kind of quietly desperate insecurity drives reading not opting into a trend as desperately trying to be cool instead of dismissing them as out of touch?
What a fantastic (and apposite!) response to the question -- and the article made me nostalgic for the days when intellectuals disdained television, rather than hoard lore about HBO miniseries. Not because they were better, but because I was young then. :)
Hello, would you like to invest in fractional ownership of solar. When we build it after we get capital, you will get x% of the money.
This is how the scam is usually run. And it is run so often that people find immediate other obfuscations: "Unlike the other guys, we've already got the farm built. We're just selling a stake in it so that we can set up a new one.". You buy it, the damn thing turns out to be on its last legs and dies. Or some such thing.
Information asymmetry is what is being exploited here.
Those conflicts may exist and be mitigated through a variety of means with good structures and good actors, especially in the US. You are correct that information Asymmetry of sellers exists, as it most often does, especially in markets less liquid and reported on as public equities. However, most of what you are saying exists in every real estate and especially real estate development transaction.
Agreed! I, for one, am enjoying the small-town vibe of my chosen mastodon service provider, and I'm delighted that it can never become "to big to fail."
You keep saying "users" when you should probably just say "I," but maybe you understand it a bit better at this point. The onboarding UX is atrocious, mostly because people want it to be something it's not, and partly because developers often don't do UX well. But the UX isn't going to change, so focusing on helping people understand how and why it works the way it does seems more important than cursing the design.
You're welcome to stick with Twitter, Inc, if you want a single oligarch to control your chosen microblogging service and everything about it. Or you can venture out and pick a server that supports the mastodon service instead.
And who knows? Maybe someday a big company will grow a giant mastodon server so that something like 30% of all mastodon traffic happens there, just as with Gmail and email traffic[0] today.
I say this every time one of these pops up: Just do it yourself. Just get a $5 Linode or a Cloudflare account, make a Hugo/Pelican/whatever site and go.
These niche microblogging sites are so small and insignificant that you can never ever trust them to survive (or even persist). Just do it yourself from the very beginning and you'll have a much better time.
Every time this DIY reply comes it misses the fact that the platforms take care of commenting (account management, moderation), something that's more or less impossible for a DIY solution.
Twitter/FB/etc make commenting painless because everyone has an account and is already logged in. This at least has the potential to get to that position. DIY doesn't.
> the platforms take care of commenting (account management, moderation), something that's more or less impossible for a DIY solution.
This could be a bug, not a feature if you look at it from indie-bloggers' perspective. The DIY types are not target audience for the solution you're proposing.
There is a space for both 1) Substack-like platforms 2) DIY indie blogs.
Some cool things about DIY blogs:
- Email them! You can make friends by just emailing people. Private conversations.
- No censorship, this is a complex topic but DIY'ers probably consider censorship a bug than a feature.
https://prose.sh is a blog platform that is hosted in a free tier.
Authentication and authorization is handled by SSH, publishing posts is as simple as using rsync, and the website itself is read only.
We thought about charging for it but the site costs basically nothing. We have zero intention of killing it off as well because we use it for our own blogs.
What I like about it the most is you can take your Hugo markdown files and upload it to prose and it’ll mostly work so there’s not a ton of friction.
Hey. You're right. But there are lots of folks who don't have the time to build and maintain a site themselves.
Besides, I'm hoping to make Nicheless more than just a micro blogging platform. My goal is to make it into a space that encourages groups of people to share their thoughts without fear, and eventually let the exchange of those ideas percolate into real life discussions.
blogger.com has existed for forever (maybe older than Linode or Cloudflare)
The main advantage of self-hosting on a VPS provider is that you fully own your site... but it's a tradeoff in time, money and hassle of setup and administration.
Why bother when you can let someone else do all that for you... for free?
True, but (a) it's a fun project, and (b) I wanted something just for my notes, so I can add note-specific commands and generally treat my notes directory as a database I can use Sonse to work with.
Thanks, I'll figure out some screenshots. The list command would display all notes, but maybe I could add some kind of pagination feature. If you have specific ideas, consider adding them to the tracker! [1]
