tallwookie

I looked at kbin but didn't like the UI. lemmy = much better

much the same - visiting various news & sci/tech sites manually, then link aggregators digg/reddit. infinity was my favorite 3rd party app - now using jerboa for mobile use of lemmy. jerboa has some issues and there needs to be more mobile apps but that issue will resolve itself in time

C&H

cant talk about fight club if you forget about it

never heard of lemmy prior to this week - I had heard of mastodon but never really got into either twitter or it. have been looking at some of the other fedi apps, some of them show promise

unexpectedly?

funding is better than monetizing a platform

gatekeeping, censorship, shadowbans from commenting in a different community, echo chambers.

willful misunderstanding. absolutely no one should trust anything spez says

compared to exiting college and realizing that the real world has different rules?

I've noticed that as technology has progressed over the last few decades, it has gotten progressively cheaper - like, it used to cost some serious $$$ to host your own website/community back in the day, but now you can easily get away with it for less than ~$100/yr.

people that like to create things have a vested interest in maintaining their creations - presumably they'd pay some small amount in order to have their creations (or a digitally archived copy) preserved for posterity.

not familiar with DAOs, but it sounds sort of like a form of currency. if everyone adopts it, or recognizes its value (much as American currency is valued in countries with weak economies), and the tokens are redeemable across multiple platforms (or have a real world value), then that, along with other sources of remuneration (crowdfunding, donations, etc) could easily pay for the cost of hosting content long term.

the median price for a house in my area is $900k. median. if I wanted to buy a house that wasnt in a crime ridden hell hole, I'd have to move somewhere that has no jobs.

my project at this point in time is building an RV and living it in until I can afford to buy land and run water/sewer/electricity to it. the upside is that a house on wheels can drive where it's warm.