Oh they're really serious about this aren't they

They're getting so shit people will have no choice. They're already leaving one alienated group at a time

A small friend group is best suited for chat programs (discord et al.) But if you want to expand the group a mastodon server is a good idea

Pretty much. I should be able tobmake friends with any human on earth with an internet connection. That this is still hard is something we need to fix

We do need better onboarding. I wonder if you could make an equivalent of the "discovery" feed that wasn't abusive to the user

Their moderation has been garbage lately. They're wrongly banning people for things they didn't do. It's just premusk twitter at this point. The real fediverse is a better vet medium and long term

It seems like we have a problem where there's too much money at the top of society that's trying to chase returns that can't exist because there's enough money at the bottom to buy products, so it just gets invested in bad ways. This will probably continue until they waste enough for their own money on bullshit that they no longer have it

The big problem here is that it's simply not reliable enough to replace a worker because you have to have the AI running unsupervised to actually replace anyone and it can't be done with the current technology and something that can actually replace workers is not coming in the next 5 years or so and I'm being generous.

Manhattan has a lot of Office Buildings which brings down the average, people commute in their from over 100 miles away so you can have a lot of office workers in a space with a permanent population that's much lower

This person is obviously assuming the norms and economic equilibrium of 20th century America is a universal when in reality I was a historical arberation that's dragging on because the people from that era are still the ones clinging to power. Like yeah I get there was an old socially accepted life script but that is gone forever now, time to grow up and build a better world.

I am however intrigued by the idea of having a couple blocks cordoned off as some 18+ public sex Kink sex toy District, that actually sounds kind of fun

As someone who grew up in Suburbia I can say that higher density would be better since it was more kids to play with nearby. We should make sure that there's a park within walking distance of dense housing going forward I think, since if you don't have a private car the park is a reasonable ask, especially since it's probably going to be even better than some dumb piece of grass anyways

basically everything is research scale right now, and we need to do full scale tests to make sure everything works and learn how to optimize things. there's also non-DAC options to work on too

Yeah the population bomb fizzled (although family planning policy being widespread probably makes it another ozone layer) and upside down population pryamids are a more realistic scenario

I always like to say that the number of cars on the road should decrease by 90%. The other 10% accounts for every Edge case you can think of because if you look at the clogged freeways you don't see masses of Paratransit Vans or people hauling furniture taking up all the space

Yes, but so is better urban planning to make using a car unnecessary for most trips. Solarpunk urbanism is one of the most exciting things to come out of either solarpunk or urbanism

solar is gonna get us pretty damn close to unlimited clean power for at least part of the day

thank you. I used kbin.social before it went down and only got around to getting back on the bandwagon.

I wish fuel cells were cheaper. I looked into it once and it was over a thousand for even a low watt unit. and that's not counting the fuel or the tank. it wouldn't be hard to hot swap a fuel cell into my ebike but a battery is just cheaper

non technical people don't understand how computers work. for us it's intuitive that a computer can have a program on it that listens to a port on the network and serves interactive web pages for for most people "app on phone does something" is all they know. their mwental model is shaped by large corpo offerings.

I think our pitch to the tech illiterate should be "hey look at this great website, great content, mods actually do their jobs, users are friendly" let them sign up thinking a particular instance is just like what their used to, then they discover on their own accord that some users have an extra @example.com at the end, and if they ask explain that there are other websites just like that one, and the websites can exchange messages so it all works like one big website. for apps, just tell them "when you launch it for the first time it asks for your server, just type in the domain name, this app supports multiple websites. good, now put in your username and password and you're all set"

starting new people off in the browser might be a bit awkward on mobile but saving the federation talk for later is probably best. focus on the surface level appeal (a website that is good and doesn't suck) and they can learn why it doesn't suck later

we're all burnt out from life bending us over. I intended to sign up here for a couple months and onlu just got around to it.