Comments by "Technolus" (@technolus5742) on "WSJ News" channel.

  1. Reddit runs the servers. People just get a space they can moderate. Here, randos run the servers, and you can run your own and no one can moderate you. Literally nothing like reddit other than it being a social media app lol
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  2. If you don't like the many servers in every continent, you can still host your own.
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  3. @stevenevents they are in the fact that they are decentralized, rather than owned by a person or company.
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  4. Nah, discord is one single company, and its "servers" are simply isolated messaging groups. Mastodon is run by any number of randos, and the servers are actual servers (content receivers and emitters) and all communicate with eachother. People have been comparing it with email, which makes for a good analogy.
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  5. It's the same, these people like many others are just not caught. The issue is when in certain districts the police use minor drug charges to target and harass people and to arrest to investigate and search in circumstances that would otherwise not be permitted.
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  6. Also Musk himself develops AI in his companies.
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  7. ​ @robotman011  true, I'd love to have something like thus confortable enough to wear and use as a replacement for my computer and phone.
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  8. It'd not a toy, it's a computer. You can do with it the same things you can do with other computers. Other computers are not usually chucked aside after a week cause people don't know what to do with them.
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  9.  @sterlingmarshel6299  tell that to the many thousands of people getting arrested for possession in texas
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  10. I do wonder what she is working on. A couple days ago she was interviewed in the field, so she does seem to be working.
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  11. They literally have the biggest social networks, that's hardly being "dead". They did seem to achieve market saturation, and that's the oposite of being dead lol
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  12. Not being censored at all, if you are you probably are spreading misinformation/ vilifying some minority.
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  13. People were looking for an alternative, just waiting to jump ship.
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  14.  @nicolasanelka1907  Oh, that's true. I don't like subtitles word by word. Not sure why they do that.
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  15. You are not bound to servers, you can easily move your data and followers to any server you want.
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  16. Young people love this, they just end up in the competition cause they have better products.
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  17. Users have better options, unless meta invests in graphics. Graphics is basically the only edge the competition has.
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  18.  @graymars1097  Exactly. Social vr is quite different from regular games. Similar platforms like vrchat and recroom grow consistently without advertising and without the backing of a massive corporation. Meta just needs to give users a good enough experience that users won't run towards the competition, and that non-users will think "I would try it once just to see what it's really like". If you look for a somewhat polished vrchat video (like "Best Places to see in VRCHAT"), you'll see something much more appealing than meta's "horizon worlds" (god even the name needs improvement...).
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  19. Those who are already rich don't usually gamble significant amounts on long shots. It's mostly technology savvy people and those who having little are risking their savings in hopes of high gains over an uncertain outcome. Contrary to the rich being the most interested in this, it has been poorer populations that have been more willing to use this currency when their country's currency is too unreliable. And one of its potential use cases is supposed to be providing financial services to the impoverished. In sum there's there's lot more than just money replacements, there's a whole host of services being developed. Also
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  20.  @ASK-ko9qx  ? No. Reddit runs the servers. People just get a space they can moderate. Here there randos run the servers, and you can run your own and no one can moderate you. Literally nothing like reddit other than it being a social media app lol
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  21. Except reddit is a owned by a single entity. It's the same as saying "sooo twitter". Decentralized Twitter....
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  22. Nah, discord is one single company, and its "servers" are simply isolated messaging groups. Reddit is again a single company. You might as well say this is like Twitter, but then you're missing the point that it's a decentralized Twitter... Mastodon is run by any number of randos, and the servers are actual servers (content receivers and emitters) and all communicate with eachother. People have been comparing it with email, which makes for a good analogy.
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  23. It's basivally nothing like discord lol
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  24. What a time to be aliiiive 🤣
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  25. Not sponsored content
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  26. Probably didn't intend to release it at this stage. Later would likely integrate into their products as they keep doing with their ai tech. I think it's understandable when these models can get things deeply wrong, which as seen can reflect badly on the company.
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  27. Did you try a different server?
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  28. Nope. Same as it is not Twitter. Reddit runs the servers. Twitter runs the servers. Users run the servers with Mastodon. Reddit says what is allowed on the platform. Twitter says what's is allowed on the platform. You say what is allowed for you in Mastodon. Reddit can ban you. Twitter can ban you. Mastodon can't ban you.
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  29. Nah, discord is one single company, and its "servers" are simply isolated messaging groups. Mastodon is run by any number of randos, and the servers are actual servers (content receivers and emitters) and all communicate with eachother. People have been comparing it with email, which makes for a good analogy.
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  30. With the increase of users, also comes an increase on users willing to host servers.
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  31.  @greyghost2492  Much more than just "some" and many other countries around the world also have them. Surprisingly (or maybe not), the USA only makes speech illegal when it calls for violence. International online platforms generally abide by the common rules so as to avoid too much complexity.
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  32. Decentralization is often promoted by people on the right.
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  33. No, it's not. Chatgpt gets things wrong lots of times too. Just yesterday it was telling me that trees are non-living organisms. I asked it to clarify and it went on to say trees don't grow or reproduce. These tools are already very helpful regardless of not being perfect and they are getting better very fast...
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  34. Nah, discord is one single company, and its "servers" are simply isolated messaging groups. Mastodon is run by any number of randos, and the servers are actual servers (content receivers and emitters) and all communicate with eachother. People have been comparing it with email, which makes for a good analogy.
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  35. Thing is now many people are dissatisfied at the whole thing.
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  36. It's supposed to be public. There are basically no private messages there.
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  37.  @TsarFrancisDrake  Mastodon allows people to join communities based on their own interests. So only people looking for political stuff will find it filling up their stream.
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  38. But it can change and you can't no control over that. Mastodon is open source and you can host your own.
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  39.  @FutureCommentary1  It's even more similar to Twitter than Reddit. So how does it differ from Twitter? It's decentralized: you determine the moderation policies rather than a company, and you cannot be banned no matter what you say. These matters are closely related to who owns the platform, and that's why it has increased in popularity since Elon took over Twitter.
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  40. ​ @JenniferA886  Yeah, announcements from services I'm interested in due to my work. I haven't seen a mass migration yet, but I hope there might be once companies see the landscape becoming more well defined.
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  41.  @QuizmasterLaw  These people are generally not addicts.
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  42. It seems useful. I would love to have a screen that follows me around so I can watch TV while I do boring chores around the house.
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  43.  @elizabethhurtado2829  it is a lie, one that glosses over the actual reasons people are using these substances.
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  44. Many people prefer a platform that is not as littered with misinformation and hate. It's absurd that people go around declaring a platform dead as soon as it is launched, especially when it is tapping into the resources of existing social media to fuel the greatest start of an app ever. Let's wait until it actually somewhat stabilizes before making random predictions based on personal feelings.
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  45.  @Sebster85  Your comments won't be the subject of moderation unless you go around being rude or spreading blatant lies. Do you really have to pretend to be civil? I find political censorship worrisome, like when Twitter engaged in censorship in turkey. Now insults and concerted efforts to lie to the population at scale? No thanks.
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  46. Source? All the newest reports I see say 20%. It's normal that people rushed all at once to try it out initially and then defaulted to a more normal usage pattern.
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  47. ​ @chrisfrank4267  Looked it up: What is down 75% is searches for the word "threads", not the app itself. The app is down from 49mil to 23.6 million active users, or about 22% of Twitter’s audience (with about 20% as many total users). That's a drop of 50%, not 75, and the end numbers are similar in proportion to twitter.
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  48.  @elizabethhurtado2829  elites? Its not just the elites. Workers do it too. People trying to improve their life, to increase their abilities to aid them in some effort they are undertaking. Not sure what any of this has to do with your kids. Most likely it has nothing to do with them, I suppose you are simply worried because maybe your kids for some unrelated reason have used drugs or been affected by someone who does. Hardly anything to do with people trying to increase their productivity in a generally responsible way. In any case, sorry to hear you and your family have had trouble.
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  49. Yet you are the one dreaming of things that have not happened 💀
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  50. Yeah, the question is whether institutional users will shift over. Like brands who use it for their announcements. Personally that's all I use twitter for.
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