Notices by Mike Masnick ✅ (mmasnick@mastodon.social), page 3

@troed you make three assumptions in that statement and I disagree with all three.

If Bluesky goes down the enshittification path, it will die.

@evan I understand your hostility here and, but honestly, find it a bit off-putting.

Figure I should post this here as well. How I view the wider decentralized social media ecosystem. A variety of necessary experiments to figure out what will actually bring value.

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/10/29/some-slightly-biased-thoughts-on-the-state-of-decentralized-social-media/

Coming soon... the most fun card game you could ever imagine. One Billion Users. A card game about building your own social media network.

Can you do a better job than the billionaires in charge?

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mmasnick/one-billion-users-the-social-media-card-game

For folks on Mastodon, but not Bluesky, one of the best news accounts to follow on Bluesky is Joshua Friedman, and he's now bridging to Mastodon. Follow him! @joshuajfriedman.com

@quinn @riana @danmcd @alecm @normative @mattblaze well... now i feel like maybe i need to write something. :)

@quinn @riana @danmcd @alecm @normative i think that the other variation of this that is great is @mattblaze's phrase that "it's like saying 'well, surely if you can land a man on the moon, you can also land a man on the sun'"

Non-tech people think of tech as magical and have less of an understanding what's difficult vs. what's impossible. So "nerd harder" is just a "well, surely you can solve this challenge" even if it's impossible.

@quinn @riana @danmcd @alecm i don't know that i ever wrote a full explainer. The term was coined by @normative on Twitter in 2016 in discussing the debate over encryption backdoors. He noted that when pro-backdoors people would demand backdoors, experts would respond, pointing out that this was a technological impossibility to do well, and then the pro-backdoors people would respond with a version of "just nerd harder and solve the technical problems."

@Arianity talked about it on the podcast yesterday

@User47 why would it be disappointing?

@joshsternberg.bsky.social i see it.

@bstacey nice! I know that our lawyer in that case is also representing some of the defendants in this case as well!

@winterknell we got hit with a DDoS attack, and put the site into lockdown mode to stop the flood of bots. It was like that for about 12 hours before we brought it back to normal...

@larsmb @ami_angelwings that's not true in the US. Elsewhere it is.

"If #libraries were created today, they won't be allowed to exist thanks to publishers and the copyright cartel."

Still rings true.

Photos and videos depicting child abuse aren’t “free speech.” Political violence and threats aren’t “legitimate political discourse,” either. https://civic-texts.ghost.io/media-depicting-child-abuse-isnt-free-speech-politifal-violence-and-threats-are-legitimate-political-discourse-either/

@sharan what do you find is not interesting enough about it for you to stay?

@danny as always.

@sillyCoelophysis thanks for the vote of confidence

@GatekeepKen @film_girl I don't know why people keep saying this. It was mostly his cash. The Saudis rolled over their shares so he didn't have to pay as much. But it was still mostly his cash.