Not just expensive but uncertain

Who wants to be rich, though? Only assholes or fear junkies imo. The vast vast vast vast vast vast majority of people only want to get along and get by.

May as well put these shapely feet to work somehow… sigh

More personalized, and throw an “unfortunately” in there so you can tell from first skim that you got passed on

Yeah AI has kinder of made everyones jobs shittier and a lot less fun

How’d it go?

Not most of the people, just their leaders

And the music!

Yeah that’s how I see it too. If the fediverse becomes mainstream/commercial then I’m happy more people are off the big closed platforms, but I don’t want any part of the pro-capital ad culture if they start reproducing that here.

I think small private groups of vetted members are likely to become even more popular if that’s the case. It would be a shame for search and discoverability, but if an open connection to the web leads inexorably to bots you really can’t tell from people…

Kind of overstating it but it would be like an internet dark age in a way. Most conversations encrypted, unarchived, known only to a few. Like you were saying, conversations like this, on the open web, just wouldn’t happen anymore if the internet is just for business, shopping, etc

While this sounds intuitive, I’ve crunched side-by-side with a coworker (literally couch-coop, sshing into pods to solve a production issue), and then having also done the same over Discord with screen sharing, I can confidently say that once you actually embrace remote there is no marked tangible advantage to in person.

Other than it’s easier to recruit for a union push on company time because people are constantly jawing, rather than doing their job when in person.

IMO It’s still useful to have an actual human in the loop who is up to date on what a bunch of people are doing, to help coordinate as well as deflect ad hocs

B-b-but I was told big tech companies love disruption!

Well damn, fuck them 10x. I guess I shouldn’t have assumed anything benign if they’re associated with American Republicans.

What’s the matter with the second sentence though?

Capital possesses men like a demon.

Team apathy! 🙌

No one is disagreeing with you. The antagonist you imagine is not in this comment thread

Same mood when people complain about corpo media

I feel for them, but they should know they are making a choice by staying

Yeah, it’s a mistake to write it off as recklessness. Some very few people will materially benefit from this chaos.