Tashlan

Blackout curtains, melatonin, whatever you can to control your sleep and block out noise and light are a must. The ice cream man can be your enemy. Stock up on emergency 5 hour energies, I like to have soylent in reserve too because sometimes food and shit won’t be available.

I won’t lie, night shift strained many of my relationships. It took quite a bit from me. But it can give back too. Things like audiobooks and videogames replaced drinking at bars with friends. Have solo hobbies prepared.

There’s a temptation to become diurnal on weekends that will work against you.

Also, you have to be firm about your schedule with people. They don’t consider night shifts in their plans, so you want to make sure you let people know often what can or can’t work with your sleep cycle.

Most recently Spez said the IPO is further away now than it was last year lmao

Is this like when they let AOL onto Usenet

Business, always business

Careful now, that sort of open honesty is going to net you even more users who now have even higher expectations.

No need for sarcasm – I was ASKING if there were other ways outside of up/downvotes, AI moderation, manual/human curation, or no moderation. Hence question mark.

Dated, but has anyone come up with a better way? Outside of having another human carefully curate your shit, or some kind of Zuckerbot doing it, you need some way to filter out bullshit or any community will be overwhelmed with spam and trolls

it appears we’re all too engrossed in our personal lives.

I understand the sentiment, and when I was younger I probably would agree and I might agree again when I’m older. But right now, my personal life is the only one I have, and the world has organized itself in a way that all I can do is work to slow my losses.

I’m giving the fediverse a real shot, but it’s a slow burn It’s not “there” yet, there aren’t a decade worth of conversations about my favorite topics. For some people, they have more immediate needs and desires that can’t be satisfied here and if Reddit is all there is, it’s where they’ll go. But it’s important to me that nobody forget that most people aren’t in love with spez and the Reddit corporation, they love their communities, the way many people dislike Zuck but stay on Facebook because they love their friends. Platforms are code, they’re also people, and our peers are not mindless sheep for wanting to be with people in spaces they enjoy. It’s what’s human.

For Fediverse to win, we have to provide more than just platforms, we have to have good people, good content, something to stay for. A reason to join beyond just Fuck Reddit.

I think I’ve seen enough now to conclude for-profit social media will always end looking like 90s AOL. But you know, I was on AIM until 2010, because despite all my contempt for AOL it wasn’t about whether or not I loved Steve Case, it was about whether or not the people in my life could talk to me.

I just have one life. I have strong beliefs about many things, tech ethos especially, but I have only one life and I don’t want to empty it wholly of the communities that enrich it to score points for FOSS.

it appears we’re all too engrossed in our personal lives.

I understand the sentiment, and when I was younger I probably would agree and I might agree again when I’m older. But right now, my personal life is the only one I have, and the world has organized itself in a way that all I can do is work to slow my losses.

I’m giving the fediverse a real shot, but it’s a slow burn It’s not “there” yet, there aren’t a decade worth of conversations about my favorite topics. For some people, they have more immediate needs and desires that can’t be satisfied here and if Reddit is all there is, it’s where they’ll go. But it’s important to me that nobody forget that most people aren’t in love with spez and the Reddit corporation, they love their communities, the way many people dislike Zuck but stay on Facebook because they love their friends. Platforms are code, they’re also people, and our peers are not mindless sheep for wanting to be with people in spaces they enjoy. It’s what’s human.

For Fediverse to win, we have to provide more than just platforms, we have to have good people, good content, something to stay for. A reason to join beyond just Fuck Reddit.

I think I’ve seen enough now to conclude for-profit social media will always end looking like 90s AOL. But you know, I was on AIM until 2010, because despite all my contempt for AOL it wasn’t about whether or not I loved Steve Case, it was about whether or not the people in my life could talk to me.

I just have one life. I have strong beliefs about many things, tech ethos especially, but I have only one life and I don’t want to empty it wholly of the communities that enrich it to score points for FOSS.