I think a lot of the future of social media is going to be determined by ease of use/beginner-friendliness.

The issue (and strength) with Lemmy is there’s multiple instances. You’re not gonna be able to explain it to non-technical people, even as an experienced programmer myself I sometimes find myself getting confused by Lemmy. People don’t want to learn, they just want to use something that works.

Then again, KBin only had the one instance pretty much I think, and yet that died out anyway. So I think part of it is people just want to go where everyone else is, and that did end up being Lemmy and not KBin (although the maintainer of KBin also refused outside contributions which helped seal its fate lol)

If Bluesky has the one instance, and you literally just go to bsky.app and sign up, that’s going to be a lot easier than trying to sell people on Mastodon or Lemmy when they Google those. Then again, I just googled Mastodon and it took me right to Mastodon.social so maybe I am mistaken.

That’s a really cute goat.

The weird thing is, the original version of it wasn’t AI lol

I’m pretty sure this is an AI-enhanced or AI-created version of an image, since the original image existed long before AI/LLMs did.

This is why people say Americans are morons, because they elect shitheads like this.

Can’t wait to see what these fuckheads have in store for America, and the rest of the world. Plus, Canada is getting it’s own version of Trump next year, so that’s incredible too.

What wonderful times we live in.

Yes, but, what if it had even more cables?

A year before they start serving ads then a year later to the month they start serving ads. Either that’s a lucky guess which happens or he’s got insider info lol

No, it’s going to get worse with the Trump administration.

It’s going to be a hell of a long 4 years, for America and the rest of the world. Damn.

How do we break the habit?

We are truly living in dark times.

Fuck yeah, I love tactical controls. There’s just something nice about something physical you can feel and manipulate.

I think they call it “female-presenting”, so if it looks like female nipples to them, then they ban it.

Instagram is stupid anyway.

I’m pretty sure they laid off a lot of their QA team before and didn’t replace them since then.

YouTube/Google and hiding data from the end-user, name a better duo.

UX is very difficult, unfortunately, especially for open-source projects where the contributors are usually programmers and not so much UX/product managers.

I think I’ve probably only ever been blacklisted once in my entire career, and it’s because I looked up the reviews of a company I applied to and they had some very concerning stuff so I just ghosted them completely and never answered their calls after we had already begun to play a bit of phone tag prior to that trying to arrange an interview.

In my defense, they took a good while to reply to my application and they never sent any emails just phone calls, which it’s like, come on I’m a developer you know I don’t want to sit on the phone all day like I’m a sales person or something, send an email to schedule an interview like every other company instead of just spamming phone calls lol

Agreed though, eventually they will forget, it just needs enough time, and maybe you’d not even want to work there.

Blacklists are heavily overrated and exaggerated, I’d say there’s no chance you’re on a blacklist. Hell, if you interview with them 3 years later, it’s entirely possible they have no clue who you are and end up hiring you - I’ve had literally that exact scenario happen. Tons of companies allow you to re-apply within 6 months of interviewing, let alone 12 months or longer.

The only way you’d end up on a blacklist is if you accidentally step on the owners dog during the interview or something like that.

I mean, interviews have always been hell for me (often with multiple rounds of leetcode) so there’s nothing new there for me lol