Log off for real

Ugh I hate infinite scroll. If some people want it, sure, you can implement it as an opt-in feature. But a lot of people use the fediverse to avoid the typical features of corporate social media

Gamers are the majority of the desktop space

96% of US households have at least one computer. There are under 14 million steam users in the US. The math isn’t mathing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias

EDIT: mobile being at 15.3% is all we need to see here

Surely we don’t count steam deck nor think gamers are a representative sample of computer users

it’s already grown from ~1% to ~6% within the last couple of years

Source?

Are trans people a result of selective breeding or wtf are you trying to say

More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Michael_Bailey#Research_and_views

In 2023, Springer retracted a paper co-authored by Bailey [28] on the rapid onset gender dysphoria (ROGD) hypothesis “due to concerns about lack of informed consent”, which had been published in the Archives of Sexual Behavior.

people aren’t usually paying for these licenses, their employers are.

For the average employee yes, but this disadvantages entrepreneurs, unemployed people who want to develop their skills, independent researchers, etc.

Good to know!

Productivity has increased by orders of magnitude in the past 100 years

wtf are you talking about

Roughly a 2x productivity boost will counteract a ~ 50% reproduction rate, simple economics. We just choose not to even try to have a system that would allow that

Here’s an idea: don’t make your economic system rely on the fact that every single person reproduces

Is there a more reliable source than “HR News” ?

Yeah no. It is quite bad in many places all over the world. BUT. Big cities in Sweden are especially bad. By law you gotta queue to get a long term lease, and this queue can be 10+ years in Stockholm.

And yeah funnily enough, this is due to their rent control system. Maybe it could be implemented better, but their current system leads to terrible outcomes.

The Swedish rental market is abysmal

An LSAG signature proves that the signature came from one of the announced public keys, but it is impossible to know which.

I mean I just took the users word for summarizing the thing accurately, but doesn’t seem too complicated to me https://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/112036

Either way, it’s not about this specific idea. It’s just that you need some technical way to combat bots, be it cryptography, web of trust, subjective moderation etc. If it’s open source, there will not be enough volunteers to do moderation

This kinda app would need at least an attempt at a technical solution to the bot problem. An open source app can’t just pay people to kick bots out. And even the paid apps that can are drowning in bots.

Something cryptographic maybe. Tor is kinda magical, makes anonymity possible while the each machine knows who they are talking to. Maybe something where you can show that you are “a verified user” without showing exactly which one.