Notices by SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)

@h@hoorny.nl @Ree@shitposter.world @sim@shitposter.world I think "shortform video" as you can see on TikTok is more like social media than the typical stuff you would watch on Youtube for example indeed.

@Ree@shitposter.world @sim@shitposter.world @h@hoorny.nl I think Peertube is fine, but I personally think video publishing is not social media.

It's a different beast and people shouldn't look at it like solving a social media issue in my opinion.

Let me explain. On a video publishing platform it is very common that 99.99% of users simply watch stuff and don't post anything. Only a very small fraction of users post things, unlike actual social media, where most users post things.

@Stellar@mk.absturztau.be And after that I still recommend you pick up a framework such as Laravel or Symfony in the case of PHP. That's how all real PHP is done nowadays.

Plain standard library PHP just isn't sufficient for the modern complexity of the web anymore.

@sim@shitposter.world @h@hoorny.nl @Ree@shitposter.world Yes, you bring up another point I want to mention.

I don't think we should just shelter young people from proprietary social media.

I think it's bad for everyone and nobody should use it.

@Stellar@mk.absturztau.be Personally I also gotta say. Whenever I learn a new programming language I tend to avoid tutorials altogether, even if they are good. Very often programming tutorials just make you copy and paste stuff from the article without you actually learning anything.

I think the best way to learn a new programming language is always to think of your own project that you wanna build, and then try to make that while reading the official manual and looking at examples of real code used by real (free software) projects.

@h@hoorny.nl I feel like the people working on GIMP are doing the best they can and you can probably make a much bigger difference in the world donating your 260 dollars to GIMP instead of using it buy a Clip Studio Paint "perpetual" license.

@h@hoorny.nl @ezra@noord-brabant.pl I know it's a joke but people really like to rag on GIMP for being not as good as Photoshop.

Photoshop is the flagship product of a 200 billion dollar company called Adobe.

GIMP is a project maintained by a ragtag group of volunteer programmers in their spare time running on small double digit donations.

Yet GIMP can still do 99% of what the average user would use Photoshop for.

@coolboymew@shitposter.world @h@hoorny.nl Also online forums were so cool back in the day. You had a fucking about literally any niche. Everyone posted on forums.

I really miss oldschool PhpBB style forums.

@h@hoorny.nl @ezra@noord-brabant.pl It's better to not use proprietary software to begin with to avoid this situation altogether. Send your money to free software projects instead, they often spend it a lot more efficiently to directly improve the software anyway.

@Ree@shitposter.world @h@hoorny.nl I know about Spacehey. I think it's is cool that some people are willing to keep it online, but I'm personally not that interested in spending time there. I am no longer a teenager and I have different interests now.

@ezra@noord-brabant.pl @h@hoorny.nl Then you will probably say "But I own a perpetual license".

I can name hundreds of examples of proprietary software with "perpetual licenses" that suddenly stopped working or disappeared one day.

@ezra@noord-brabant.pl @h@hoorny.nl What I'm talking about is that your precious Clip Studio Paint as it is right now could be taken away from you at any point in time and there's no way for you to get it back no matter how much you beg and plead for the developer to give it back to you.

Krita doesn't have this problem.

@ezra@noord-brabant.pl @h@hoorny.nl You're accurately describing the whole problem with proprietary software.

You are praying that the developer does your "as long as..." requirements and won't suddenly change their mind. You're completely helpless at the whims of the developers.

@ezra@noord-brabant.pl @h@hoorny.nl Proprietary software is always evil. You're literally distributing software to strip the users of their freedom, disguised as a helpful tool to improve their productivity or whatever.

@h@hoorny.nl @ezra@noord-brabant.pl Free software doesn't automatically mean good. I agree, there's a lot of free software that I dislike.

But software being proprietary does automatically mean it is bad. Always and in every possible usecase. No exceptions.

@ezra@noord-brabant.pl @h@hoorny.nl

@ezra@noord-brabant.pl @h@hoorny.nl ironically enough your glorious decentralized fediverse has been a worse off experience than the evil big tech platforms like (pre-musk) twitter or tumblrThen why the fuck are you even here if you think your centralized corpo aids is so much better?

@ezra@noord-brabant.pl @h@hoorny.nl No, because I really don't think social media sucks if you take out the proprietary tech.

@ezra@noord-brabant.pl @h@hoorny.nl People being a problem isn't so bad. You can fix that.

But the platform being the problem, that is unfixable by the people. And also do you know what problem platforms create? Problem people.

@ezra@noord-brabant.pl @h@hoorny.nl I know this sucks to hear if you had issues with harassment, but honestly don't think harassment is even close to being one of the the biggest issues of social media.

Only a small percentage of users face harassment, similar to real life bullying mechanics which is honestly what I think it should be compared to.

The real issues that everyone on modern day big tech social media faces have everything to do with how their recommendation algorithms work and how misleading they are. Even most of the harassment I think you can safely say is also caused by this.

Seriously big tech is abusing their power of getting to decide what everyone sees and is using it for profit. Either using to gain political power, or by making people insecure so they buy specific products to make more money.

On big tech social media you have no control over what you get to see. They decide for you.