You guys wanna know why Windows>Linux? It’s very simple. You just refuse to accept how simple this answer is, but this has always been the answer.

Windows:

Click the thing. Ok, that did the thing.

Linux:

It’s so easy! Just go into terminal, and I hope you memorized your commands, because not only will you need to remember the command, but you need to make certain there are no typos. Anywhere. Ever. Or the whole thing does not work.

And the userbase are people who may not even be wearing matching socks. Simply because they didn’t notice, or maybe they didn’t care.

So “click the thing” is intuitive. “Memorize the entire ecosystem of commands” is like doing homework.

People don’t like hard things. People like easy things. And if it’s hard, they give up, and play with ball in a cup instead.

Yeah, I just stopped buying products.

It’s almost like listening to my crazy rants predicts the future.

Hope you guys don’t have those loyalty rewards cards to grocery stores or pharmacies. Oh, who am I kidding? All of you do.

Oh nooooooo…

…

…anyways.

Twitch currently has a pretty effective moderation method for making sure certain topics or games don’t get featured on their platform.

For example, you can be in a bikini, that’s fine, but you can’t show feet.

You also can’t play the socom games from PS2, because of the idea of glorifying terrorists. Since if they win, the announcer says “terrorists win”.

The point I’m making is, these are abstract concepts that need human monitoring. It wouldn’t be that hard to add twitter/X conversations to that list.

So like, if you have a twitter, you can’t use your twitter on your away screens, or talk about it on stream. The same way you can’t give out an only fans link.

And twitch is owned by amazon. If they REALLY wanted to piss off musk, they could buy bluesky and make it the official microblogging service for all amazon owned services.

So if you have an amazon account, now you have a bluesky account.

And all the actors who act in yhe prime shows? They get signed into bluesky exclusive interaction contracts. Where they only interact with fans on bluesky.

As for CVS? They’re a struggling drug store chain. Amazon already owns whole foods. A grocery store. Would it really be too far out of the realm of plausibility to see them adopt CVS into their too big to fail ecosystem?

Disagree.

A LOT of what I use social media could be classified as brands.

Game Grumps is a youtube show. I’m excited they’re on bluesky.

The Cleveland Guardians are a baseball team in the MLB. I’m excited they’re on bluesky.

You could classify them as brands. They use social media to promote themselves, and I use social media to interact with those brands that isn’t available otherwise.

I don’t know what tailscale is, but based on the context, it sounds like what I mean. As long as it’s handling JUST the handles.

Because realistically, from a computer perspective I would still be @Lost_My_Mind@Lemmy.World from a purely technical behind the scenes standpoint.

All my posts, and such would be hosted on Lemmy.World but from a human perspective, I would just be @Lost_My_Mind

So if you mention me, or message me, you’d be using @Lost_My_Mind but the technicals would take that handle, and say "ok, where do I deliver this? Ah, yes, it’s registered at @Lost_My_Mind@Lemmy.World

So thats where the computers would deliver that message. Even though you, the user, don’t even need to know which instance I’m registered at. No need to display that. Make it FEEL centralized, while actually making it decentralized.

I have no idea what OIDC is…so, maybe?

I’m sorry Mrs Robinson! OOOOOHHHHH!!! I am for real!!! Never meant to make your family cry, I cut through your backyard a million times!

I’m not even sure what the word is to describe that mentality. The closest I think of is “willfully ignorant”, but that’s not quite it.

Basically people like you are blind to the reason as to why bluesky and not mastodon is getting all the twitter runaways.

And you’re blind to it, not because you’re incapable of seeing the reasons. You’re just unwilling to accept that those reasons ARE the reasons it’s happening this way.

Basically the 95% of society don’t give a shit about federation. It’s not a selling point, it’s a scary confusing distraction. Many of them probably went to sign up for mastodon, as they had heard of it…but then they found out:

“There are thousands of mastodons, and if you sign up on one, you can’t sign up on the other, and you can only talk to the people on your mastodon…oh, bluesky is just one service. You sign up, and you’re done. Oh, it’s even asking me if I want to connect with mastodon. So that means I never needed to connect to mastodon! And this one is just like twitter. I know this. The other one is scary. This one is what I like.”

And then you come in, correcting every wrong aspect of what they just said. You start using terms like fediverse, and instances, and federate, and they just give you blank stares.

They don’t give a shit about that. At all. At allllll. At allllllllllll.

I’m going to include a picture here. I took a picture of my wall while I was watching a hockey game. You’ll notice their twitter handles. But those handles are also accessable all across the net. That’s how the fediverse should work.

TonyBrownpxp. You’ll notice they don’t put the X logo in that graphic. They just put the handle, and assume the audience knows what to do. Now, Tony Brown isn’t a celebrity. He’s a hockey announcer for a Cleveland based AHL hockey team, the Cleveland Monsters. AHL is the farm system for NHL. So this is minor league hockey.

Hardley someone who anyone would instantly know the name Tony Brown. However, if you’re watching hockey, and you see the handle @TonyBrownPXP with no other context, as shown in this photo, you know how to contact them.

But, if he were to say, have a mastodon, it would have to be @TonyBrownPXP@mastodon.social

And furthermore, if @TonyBrownPXP@mastodon.world exists, that means you can’t just throw @TonyBrownPXP on the screen with a mastodon logo, because which @TonyBrownPXP IS it???

And so now your screenis just FILLED with text, all because handles aren’t handled universally on the fediverse. I’m personally signed up for 3 diffeeent fediverse services, all using Lost_My_Mind, but on 3 different instances. What if a 2nd person signs up Lost_My_Mind on a 4th instance? I have no way to prove that’s not me. And I don’t think anyone gives a shit enough about me to investigate if it WAS me. So anything they say, would in the minds of humans, be assosiated with me.

And while I won’t call TonyBrown a celebrity, it’s the same for celebrities, and guys like him. He encourages fan interaction during hockey games, and he refuses to call it X. He always says “Send your thoughts or questions to me on twitter, or I guess they call it X now, which is a stupid name, but send your questions to @TonyBrownPXP and we’ll address the best ones during game breaks and intermission!”

Says almost the same exact thing, almost word for word, always with the snide diss of twitter, every game.

Now I’ve never signed up for loops, or pixelfed, or peertube, or a lot of services. But when I signed up for the fediverse, it should have had me pick a username. Lost_My_Mind. Ok, now when I sign up to any service, Lemmy, or Pixelfed, or peertube, or anything else, Lost_My_Mind should be my handle.

And if someone ELSE tries signing up for Pixelfed, on a different instance, they can’t use Lost_My_Mind. Even though I don’t have a registered pixelfed account. Even though I don’t have an account on that other instance.

I’M Lost_My_Mind. Not you on another instance. But that’s not how the fediverse works. And because people don’t understand, or give a shit about any of that, they just go with what they know.

Right now, we’re in the early days of the fediverse. The experience should be centralized, while the underlaying services and protocols should be decentralized. Because right now, the whole thing isn’t decentralized. It’s fractured.

…I mean, you do you buddy.

Right??? Also you need a 13 inch monogrome green screen. Like the original game boy…except giant.

…what? 13 inches WAS giant back then.

All I have is a hammer. I was told in the early 90s that it’s Hammer time. I was never told of a ceasing of it being Hammer time.

FINALLY! A return to sensible PC design!

…I’m going to put a raspberry pi inside.

I’ll eat you next weekend! Mmmmmm, smoked gouda cheese. Lettice. Pickles. Bacon. Squirt of ketchup.

Just need some potatoes.

Not needed. Internet Explorer existed for years after the 90s. It wasn’t killed by the courts. It was killed by the fact that it’s only function was to install a better browser on first boot.

Google is such a good company, one the best. Everybody says it. I was just talking to John Google the other day, and he tells me, no really he did, he tells me we’re going to do amazing things together. Oogles of googles. That’s what we’ll sell. Everybody will know about google by this time next year. It’s true.

Ew. So if someone likes their girlfriend to tie them up and edge them, that means they enjoy a breach of privacy, and getting google involved?

If Kellogs/Fruit Loops doesn’t jump on this bandwagon, what are we even doing here???

Why are you holding my birth certificate???