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@cypher the problem I am trying to point to is that the resolution criteria becomes a mix of the question itself and political influence.

If you can have a reliably uninfluencable decider, then it's not a problem, but those are thin on the ground.

A lot of people in 1995 thought the web should remain non-commercial

Now we know that they were right

@thomasfuchs I'm not sure this analogy is actually analogous.

Especially given how many left-wing bluechecks there are.

I expect more vanilla Democrats will pay for $8 check marks than vanilla Republicans and 4chan shitposters combined.

@JessTheUnstill there was chatter a few weeks ago about blocking mastodon.social (for insufficient moderation,) so balkanization into multiple unconnected networks is also a possibility.

Like IRC did, IIRC.

The problem with prediction markets is deciding the outcome. If you base it on an authority's decision, your market is a market on in the authority is captured by liars.

@rickyflows nobody expects HTML entities.

Their main weapon is surprise and fear. Their two main weapons...

@AbstractFairy I suspect men and women just get different shit projected on them, not none/all.

Has there ever been an algorithm invented that improved performance so much that existing hardware went from Unable to do the thing to Easily able to do the thing?

@rickyflows I'm using Tusky right now.

I tried Fedilab and that was okay, but I didn't like the threading view. (But you might.)

@dedicating_ruckus there are a handful of multiprotocol clients.

Andstatus and Twitlatte show up, but I haven't tried either.

It’s never not going to be funny that after years of hype about crypto-metaverse-subscriptions disrupting web2 incumbents, the backstop to Twitter’s sudden implosion was volunteers recreating Usenet with RSS.

Interacting with artificial so called intelligence should only be done maliciously towards the ai

@galaxis It doesn't work though, right?

Like, you can try to follow them, but because the instance is blocked you'll never see their posts, IIUC.

According to all known laws of society, there is no way a meme like John Mastodon should be able to federate. Its referent is too niche for the necessary momentum to get off the ground. #JohnMastodon, of course, federates anyway, because John Mastodon doesn’t care what humans think is impossible.

John Mastodon Meta 

John Mastodon posts are happening literally across every instance I am a part of and they look extremely different depending on where I am on the fedi and this is why meme culture is so much cooler when there isn't a monolithic platform.

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