For better or worse a lot of us have been passionate about the sub-communities we were involved in and we thought that our contributions were valued by the site.

The writing is on the wall, it will go as soon as the current mess quiets down (if it does). I don't think that I will even wait it out, the trust has been broken.

The painful lesson here is that nothing with the "you are the product" business model escapes enshittification. So I am not really interested in anything that's not community controlled.

Thankfully I've been making my home over at the Fediverse for the past few months so it's a lot easier to leave now than it would have been a year ago.

Yeah, it's not perfect but it's ours.

Even if it's sufficient why settle for that? We should take advantage of the best or most practical technologies available.

Most automobiles don't run on legs and airplanes are not flapping their wings either.

You'd think that the Digg-fiasco was burned into Reddit's corporate DNA but I guess even the most important lessons are forgotten with time.

Just wondering aloud: once a region has a number of villages with these services going well, perhaps a low bandwidth mesh network between them would allow a slow messaging service like email to exist?

Low bandwidth mesh for email ought to be viable, I'm sure that used telecoms equipment could enable a 'good enough' network, although perhaps using QRP APRS equipment would reduce the cost when starting from an energy demands point of view, and better account for the fact that packets will occasionally have to wait a few hours until the batteries in other nodes are charged.

The solution between villages could be LoRa since it is cheap, less than 50 euro per device albeit too high-tech.

A lower tech option is plain old radio, for example: https://frn.dc4fs.de/

Text does not consume meaningful bandwidth, so a mesh network should allow IM. (You’d need to limit torrenting, video, and hi-res audio)

Email and ssb can be supported by having a bicycle and a thumb drive.

Either use gsm or ask the locals to relay a message via radio?

We are wildly off-topic here but I use a keyword filter to get rid of that stuff and the number of hits it gets is almost always in the 4-6 range, sometimes creeping up to 8. I still think that most of the noise is organic but the unrelenting consistency of it makes me wonder.

Vote by deleting your account.

I wonder if paleontologists specializing on extinct proboscidea are in trouble.

Twitter had reasonably healthy finances and steadily growing revenue. It turned profit in 2018 and 2019 and could have fully recovered from the 2020 slump within a few more quarters.

A change in leadership (never been a fan of Dorsey) and a refocus on core competencies could have given it a big boost - if it was planned and executed competently. But what we got with Musk is the exact opposite of that. The amount of fuckup is truly amazing to watch.