Haven’t heard of that and will look into that. Thank you.

It’s scary how quickly they radicalize now, isn’t it? My “favorite” (meaning most baffling) take is that Ukrainians supposedly get doctors appointments so fast, implying that they “steal” appointments from German patients. As you might have guessed: Said doctor is an Ukrainian refugee themself most of the time. I know one myself who practices nearby with a local doctor. These geniuses don’t realize their cries for deportation will mean even longer waiting lists for many Germans. Congratulations, leopards ate your faces.

Russian propaganda has been targeting Ukrainians even more aggressively lately. It’s horrifyingly noticeable when I talked to other Germans lately. People who normally have a working head on their shoulders are blurting the most blatant racist rants now. It depressingly mirrors what Germans were saying about Jews in the 1930s and I’m only barely exaggerating. Envy towards the bottom is one of our society’s worst diseases and it’s spreading rapidly.

I fear communities are lacking resources and structure to handle the masses. It‘s something corporations already struggle with but they house like 10000 times more active users. One way to go around that was mentioned above and suggested that new users may keep creating new instances and communities so a few places don‘t just explode in size. But from my experience, if a community already covers a topic, there won‘t be much competition and we end up with a power mod environment (Reddit) at best and instances going dark from overload (hug of death) at worst.

But I don‘t want to sound too bleak about all of this. In the end these are challenges that someone might already work on.

I guess there is a hope that if more people join the Fediverse existing instances and communities won‘t just become more bloated but people create their own alternatives. However I have to say that I have no interest in running one myself. I‘m mostly here to discuss things that pique my interest. Running a community just isn‘t what I‘m here for and I‘m afraid too many people are just like me in that regard and we‘ll create an environment that‘s all too similar to Reddit.

I also don‘t think it‘s good for the platform when people leave a community with a grudge to create a competition „with blackjack and hookers“ style. I want people to come and just create communities because they want to. That‘s where I see a future for the Fediverse.

But I also wouldn‘t want to subscribe to 5 communities about the exact same topic because that would just spam my feed with the same threads probably. However I would actually like to hop between them easily so I don‘t stick around the same few people or have to abandon one for another. A lot would have to change about the way we interact with the platform (UI) and how it‘s connected for this to work though. I‘m thinking about subscribing to topics and it shows you a good mix of communities where overlapping threads are kind of stacked or something and you could swipe cards to see comments from different communities about it or something. This is a tough one to figure out. Might not even be possible at all.

Affinity being prosumer puts it perfectly. If you only work on your own on smaller projects it does everything it needs to do but as soon as you work with other people professionally and have to share files? There‘s sadly no alternative for Adobe whatsoever. I am very happy with Affinity 2 but it‘s not a standard in the industry.

Personally I can not recommend using Adobe‘s AI features at the moment. I had to work on completely AI generated images for difficult customers and I assure you it was anything but pleasant. In the end it would‘ve been cheaper, faster and give far better results to use a stock image and edit it traditionally than being told to fix this and that with endless prompting.

Blender isn‘t flash but it‘s one of the best 2D animation programs out there and used by major studios.

A lot of our biggest communities still have like two mods taking care of everything and are prone to cherry picking. It‘s the same old forum structures where the internet bubble effect is just as strong if not stronger than on larger, already problematic platforms. Some of the things I‘ve seen and experienced lately bring back memories from those internet forum days. Good ones but also the worst ones. And I have to admit it makes me doubt the Fediverse is actually scalable. There‘s just a lack of accountability in the end.

Which is not to say a federalized platform isn‘t an alternative to giant corporations. Those have their own problems and fair share of fuck ups. But I think I‘m already starting to see the limits of the Fediverse. At least in it‘s current stage.

I was scrolling down to actually read some examples and those are it? Seriously?

Are they hoping lobster Jesus will kickstart a new religion and bring in many paying followers or what‘s their angle here?

Silly corporation thinks they can roll back one update to undo all the damage that accumulated over several years. When it‘s a „straw that broke the camel’s back“ kind of situation it‘s not enough to remove the straw.

I think it’s more that China is turning the table on Germany here. Dodging tariffs isn’t very effective when your vehicles end up even more expansive because they’re produced in a high income country. I see this move as more of a symbolic one and perhaps a training ground for further expansion.

I guess they hope that a new Brand plus the “Made in Germany” label might change that. Customers might not even be aware they’re buying a chinese brand.

I think they meant that pay is pretty good at German VW facilities so there’s no way they can produce them very cheaply.

Are you saying the genocide isn‘t happening or what‘s your concern here? And these stories aren‘t just coming out now. They‘ve been published over the last few years as China is seemingly ramping up their efforts of ethnic cleansing.

Looks to me like China is speeding up things on all fronts right now which may raise alertness of the free press and the public about these topics. I mean when will we properly act on their crimes against humanity, their garbage flooding our market or their illegal Police stations? It‘s moving all too slow and too little on our front.

Sounds like a robot would just steal your job if that was implemented well. (And that is a big IF) Meanwhile you would pay off your AR glasses by watching a constant stream of ads for months.

Add it to the endless list of reasons to ban these platforms.

There‘s no Oblivion remake. Go to the Steam Page and carefully read word for word what it is you‘re talking about.

So I read up on it again very briefly because that was ages ago but: The story goes in 2017 he paid an Israeli on Fiverr to dress as Jesus and hold a sign declaring that Hitler did nothing wrong. I have not seen the video so I don’t know for sure, but apparently he wanted to show how far you can take things with Fiverr without any resistance from Freelancers.

I think he did something very wrong to shock his audience for clicks similar to Logan Paul’s disgusting Suicide Forest stunt around that same time and he got a ton of criticism for it. I don’t know what happened afterwards because I’m really not in that bubble but I don’t think a video likes this makes someone a Nazi and the comment above is a bit of a Fediverse knee-jerk reaction to this kind of stuff. I understand why people would still despise him for that though.

I‘m testing watching less Youtube and by „testing“ I mean the platform is literally slowly pushing me away. Everything about it just gets progressively worse.