@dushman@sun@lucy@newt The theory isn't for people here to use it so that's fine. The theory is to give entities who aren't friendly to the big tech regime more leverage for competition.
That can be nations who want to run their own infrastructure, or new companies, or individuals. No doubt it wouldn't be happening if China and Saudi Arabia didn't have their fingers in the Big Tech pie.
@dushman@lucy@newt@sun I'm for it, I don't give a shit. Europeans don't deserve their tax dollars anyway. May as well spend it on something retarded that could manifest some good down the road.
@sun@dushman@lucy@newt I haven't tried Pixelfed since the early days and it didn't work that well, but that was 4 years ago at least. I'm sure it's progressed.
My main question was always the same one I just asked. Why is he building a whole new thing when Mastodon/Pleroma already have a backend that transcodes and plays video just fine? He could've just made a new client. Seems crazy and inefficient.
@sun@newt Idk. The EU funds Matrix too though, right? I like Matrix a lot, so I can't complain too much. I just wish the clients were a little better and more people used it.
@dushman@sun@lucy@newt In theory it seems like talking to and seeing other real human beings would make for better time killing online than texting and profile pics but that never engages me unless it's a 1 on 1 thing. I might just be too old for that particular genre of brainrot.
@sun@newt So, aside from the fact that TikTok lives and dies by the algorithm, why tf do these people build a completely new infrastructure every time? Why not just take Mastodon, dump a shit load of money into it so you can scale it, and spend a couple weeks on a video centric client?
@sun Only because we have to be limited by our attention. We don't have the capacity to create new models every time, it's "good enuf" until it isn't. We have to be efficient.
All that just to say, you will never get pure, unbiased data in any category, ever.
@sun It's very annoying but it's also completely true that you (or any particular person) are more or less just inventing a tentative reality that might not reflect anything true, and the fact that you can't remove bias from interpreting data reflects that. It's useful for knowing how much to trust yourself, and how seriously to take others, because they might literally be living in a different universe from you.
@sun Not surprising, that problem has more or less been predicted since Descartes. There's no way to decouple a raw fact from the interpretation of that fact.
We have to transcode all external information into a format we can comprehend, and we change it in the very process of doing that, and the process we do that by is so complex that everyone is creating a new thing each time a point of data is observed, and that might be fundamental to how the world actually works at the quantum level.
It kind of fucks up everything we naturally try to do.
@adachi@une Yes friend, I am joking. The joke is that I am actually tall, so it does not make sense for me to be an incel. I am a "fakecel" as the young kids say. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
@adachi@une I know they do. I disagree with Une that it is not funny. It's very funny. I had a hot Asian girlfriend when I was almost 275 lbs. Women do not give a fuck.
Incels are funny because they could literally not be lonely if they would just stop psyching themselves out, but they never will. They love being miserable.
@adachi@une That doesn't sound like him. If he did say something like that, it wouldn't be unqualified. I would be shocked if it was.
Lewis did have Puritan leanings at certain points during his career, but not consistently, and he was tactful even when he did. He's well read in the early Patristics, is fully aware of the ambiguities and nuances between the different schools of thought, and deliberately avoids sectarian issues in nearly every work.
@adachi@une For what it's worth though, the validity of icons isn't just some crazy Protestant nonsense. The tradition is legitimately split on the issue and has been since the very beginning, ESPECIALLY on images of the Godhead himself. That's why it's so controversial.
The compromise after Nicaea II was typically no depictions of the Father allowed, the Spirit can only be depicted through abstraction (like a dove) and the Son can be depicted the same as any saint, although typically with more reverence.