Now you just need a broken toilet and two copies of Outlook (non-functional).

I meant, the priorities for the society as a whole. Our governments and laws are formed accordingly. On individual level it’s same here as well. We have people who reject (or abuse) the system, who hate the taxes etc. But our society is formed to provide certain things like free access to education, healthcare and collective social security for elderly and those who can’t support themselves.

Never heard of 996 but feels like these types of articles pop up every time there’s some kind of tech hype cycle going on. Silicon valley is full of IT heroes, ready to sacrifice it all - their families, health, environment - in order to make it big. Get rich or die trying. That’s the American Dream, right? Work hard, provide full value to shareholders and some precious honey might trickle down to you. The American “success culture” we Europeans apparently lack.

Meanwhile, here I am, I’m living in northern European social democratic utopia with free healthcare, education and annual, fully paid 6 week vacation while wondering why my 4-day work week is taking so long,.

Different priorities, I guess.

USA is not a serious country. What an absolute shit hole.

You’re saying Lemmy usage is turn on? I’m not judging, you do you, but that’s a weird fetish

Ah, thanks I wasn’t aware of those instances. I guess it’s the same old, same old story as always - politicians (in general), even in EU are not really looking to do the “right thing”. They’re looking to do the most populistic thing.

If the EU has a system which does not rely on third parties for verification and allows the platform to verify directly with a government-run service

The EU has been driving union wide “Digital Identity Wallet” It’s documented here: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/sites/spaces/EUDIGITALIDENTITYWALLET/pages/694487738/EU+Digital+Identity+Wallet+Home

There’s actually a project that tracks EU MEP’s and their X activity https://leavex.eu/politicians/

It’s kinda sad.

The European Commission even has their own Mastodon instance (https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/), but it seems they can’t get any of the Commission employees or Parliament MPs to use it. It only has 10 accounts and from what I can see, only one “real” active user, Veronica Gaffey the Director-General, for Digital Services (DIGIT), who isn’t even posting on her real account but under the title @EC_DIGIT_director_general

As far as I know none of the EU member countries have their own Mastodon servers and most politicians at least here in Sweden seem to be using either X or (the technically minded “progressives”) Bluesky, while they complain about American Big Tech.

As always with politicians, actions don’t correspond to rhetoric.

Regarding this “W” social media launch though - There’s a post on the CEO’s LinkedIn about a “pre-launch” in Davos, and that links to an German article saying the same thing - but there’s no link to this launched site anywhere. ¯\(ツ)/¯

You can use Calibre + DeDRM and some jiggery pokery with Windows version of Kindle, but to be honest, that’s just really fucking annoying and it’s just easier to sail the high seas and get already open version of your book.

Just keep working harder! It’ll trickle down!

I swear I’m not trying to troll

But you’re doing it anyway. If you really are old enough to be posting “back in my days” shit on the Internet, then you must also be old enough to be able to reflect on what you’re actually trying to say and start a discussion about.

Games, like any hobbies are done with whatever expendable income and time we have after everything else “important” is done. They are hobbies. Taste in this fleeting field of entertainment is just as personal and subjective as anyones taste in music. I’m pretty sure you know since you used to have a band in high-school after all.

So what exactly are you trying to say with your post? Why play long games? Because I want to. Just like you seem to want to troll people in this group.

“Built on AT protocol, centralized on BlueSky”. No thanks.

Good one, got a chuckle out of me :)

If we think Elon, Gates and Bezos are far-right, exploiting, scum billionaires, then Thiel is about 715 Texas sized football fields to the right of them politically. Dude is and has always been insane.

They’re still running on VC money so it’ll be a while. My guess: ads, selling user data, AI training on user behaviours, limiting what content is suitable (getting rid of NSFW), promoting corporate brands (so algorithmic advertising) and adding crypto in one way or another. And all the other tricks that older platforms have been doing.

And probably burying the thought of distributed protocol, hoping people will stop talking about it.

should work as cross-indexing domain-specific, configuration-specific video galleries

Yes indeed - this is great idea and probably the only way a “web scale” distributed video service can work - unfortunately this doesn’t quite exist yet. Even mature implementations like Mastodon have hard time dealing with “global” free text searching (or any kind of taxonomy). But maybe that’s the idea that starts a truly free web!

I doubt it. Bandwidth and storage costs for distributed video on the scale of YouTube isn’t going to happen without some kind of monetisation beyond stray donations.

Places like Nebula have better operating models but they’re also very niche.

Bsky is just another VC financed grift though.

Same techbro hegemony as Meta’s “Facebook AI Friends” they are trying to roll out.