Thank you for leaving this comment.
I think if I have an “original sin” it’s that I was simply naive …my whole life! I didn’t think we’d all join hands around the world, but I think I believed in a few things that seem foolish. For instance, I thought people wanted to like improve their own lives, which seems downstream of knowledge, but I sincerely had no idea deception and propaganda would be so big.
It’s interesting cuz about half the comments were like ppl making fun of me or whatever, and about half made relevant comments. Moreover, I got a lot of down votes, and I thought the post was quite anodyne.
One comment illustrated to me that I have been perhaps using a flawed mental model for what the www is for around 30 years.
If only it were so easy!
Thank you for responding.
I had never thought of this before, but it’s like that Borges story (and Charlie Kaufman movie) where a guy realizes the only literal map of the empire has to be the size of the empire.
That’s interesting, as it suggests the www is an abstraction of itself. All along, I have envisioned it with a model that simply isn’t accurate, and I just never noticed.
I ahoulda made an outline! As goes speech class, so goes life!
Thank you for taking the time to respond nevertheless. BTW, the tautology you called out was an accident I alllllmost went back to fix.
Dang I just noticed I got a lot of down votes on this post! Tough crowd!
My point (if it can be found) stands – the www is a publishing platform, but in its early days, the notion was that it was an archive, whereas the prevailing usage is much more fleeting. Of course, as you mentioned, there is no singular usage pattern, as everyone has an individual mental model for it.
Do you sincerely not understand, or are you just trying to be funny?
Thank you for your response.
And riiiiight – admin vs mod. I get it, I get it. But now I have new questions! Which features on Lemmy are the most useful ones that Reddit doesn’t have?
I believe that 100℅. I bet you’re knowledgeable about this tho: I am using an app called Voyager. It appears to show me posts from different servers(?). What is a useful mental model for conceptualizing this?
Also, as a site admin(?), what is a tool that would be useful for you? Similarly, what is a tool that you think would bring more users to the site?
Thank you in advance. I really like the concept of the Fediverse, but I get the sense its usability is fairly rudimentary.
I know The Dispossessed!
I’m generally supportive of the idea of feeding people. I’m further supportive of like people helping people. I think the part that makes me apprehensive is that the system you describe fundamentally operates on assumptions that sidestep the matter of beneficiaries knowing the source of the benefits, which seems very dubious. The idea seems to be quite kind and selfless, but I still think this is a scenario where folks will fail to appreciate the kindness involved because they’re simply unaware of the effort made by numerous folks involved
Quoth the sex doll.
You make several compelling points.
My cynicism is based on my general view that anonymous strangers are often unhelpful, but to be more accurate, I would have to acknowledge my feedback would vary a lot based on region. For instance, I mostly grew up in TX (nearish I-35). However, I lived in Western Washington for years, and I can easily see a community pantry being appreciated there.
So if I were to revise my comment now, I’d seek to emphasize that some regional populations have been propagandized and are destructive. And like some people don’t mind contributing like that, but I see it like trying to fill a jug with a hole in the bottom.
Tbf easel painting is hard.
How’d you do that??? Today I saw I can do ° , but I see no infinity…
It’s such an anglicism, tho! German has ä so really it should be 99, and then they’re messing with classic TV – inexcusable.
I assume you dump it in a creek like an old tire.
“Good evening, officer. No, I was just… Uhhh… Can I just pay the fine?”
Greetings, I do not seek at all to be rude – let me preface with that.
I think about this quite often, and I particularly bristle at suggestions like “create a free food fridge in a food desert.” I am all for helping people in need, to be sure, but that particular recommendation seems like something that would be ignored, marginalized, or abused/destroyed. The fact is, time is finite, so we gotta think in terms of maximizing usefulness. Trying to fill a bottomless pit does nobody any good. Or, as the expression goes, “give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll eat for his whole life” (or something).
I think this idea of contradiction for its own sake is misguided and has contributed to copious enshittification, particularly on the www.
Obviously, “incestuous amplification” is similarly undesirable, but I’m personally opposed to the notion that a poorly informed counterpoint warrants the same audience as a well-informed point.
Well, fingers crossed.
These companies keep getting passed around cuz companies want to extract value however they can. But like what do people even want money for? Like OK ppl have to pay for food, sure – you need food to stay alive. Health insurance is up there, too. And then I’m sure housing costs and car insurance costs are essentially unavoidable for most people. So that’s probably ~2k a month… So what all are people buying?
(To be explicit, I ask half-rhetorically – I’m kinda just wondering aloud, not like OMG TELL ME)
Ah OK. FYI, Star Trek is exactly what came to mind(!).
I think your summary of the objective is just about right, and then a few more things seem pertinent:
Tbh when I think more about it, it seems like they’re trying to fill a bottomless pit. Daddy issues is right.