I wonder if the people who either linger out of hope or don’t realize what is going on have been around the internet long enough to have seen this happen before.
Many of us have seen this happen over and over and over. There’s nothing surprising about it. Yes, your go-to favorite website will fail you.
Decentralization helps, but I can’t imagine shit won’t hit the fan at some point in the future.
Agree completely. It just makes it all sound much more complicated than it is in practice. I’m used to the fediverse now and my eyes glazed over reading all that.
Another issue I have with the article is that he doesn’t even touch on third-party apps, which are abundant and pretty damn robust considering how new they are. The fact that much of Reddit’s self immolation was directly due to their treatment of third-party apps. At least worth a paragraph in my opinion.
These people have to deal with the public. People suck, so burnout happens pretty quickly.
Most people don’t want to do that job so your criteria for acceptance is relatively low. See post office or other public-facing gov work.
Edit: Huge shoutout to the woman at the DMV the last time I had to go who was the nicest person I’ve ever interacted with in any situatiin as a customer, not just at the DMV.
I wonder if the people who either linger out of hope or don’t realize what is going on have been around the internet long enough to have seen this happen before.
Many of us have seen this happen over and over and over. There’s nothing surprising about it. Yes, your go-to favorite website will fail you.
Decentralization helps, but I can’t imagine shit won’t hit the fan at some point in the future.