It's actually interesting, an inch is the last knuckle of your thumb, a foot is your foot, a yard is one pace (left right left) a mile is 1000 paces
But for some reason when we standardized them so everyone's mile would be the same distance, we used a freaking giant.
Then pirates kept us from adopting the metric system
Our thermostats haven't. I really don't understand it - it can't possibly be more expensive to make, the cheapest of parts can give you better than tenths of a degree, just give us half degrees and we wouldn't even need another button.
Half of them use touch screens anyways! How are you going to give us WiFi on them while making them less adjustable than a 55 year old analog one?? I can set the freaking background and send messages to them from the other side of the world, but there's not even a hidden option for fine adjustment.
I just want to say, look at Google.
Google came into the browser scene with a far better track record for the common good and better intentions than meta.
Something like 96% of browsers are now downstream from Google's code. Recently, Firefox got a lot of flak from companies for having a "pop-out" that let's you do PIP with any video. The standard (guess who it's written by) makes the feature optional, but there's a "disable PIP" flag part of it that Firefox chose to ignore.
Suddenly, I need a plugin to spoof the user-agent, because sites are blocking Firefox. Even with that, things like Google maps have stopped working completely in Firefox. I'm ride or die on this issue so I'm not switching, but my family members I convinced to switch have abandoned ff.
The fediverse should be able to handle corporate involvement - but we said the same about the web. I'm not eager to test it.
If they get any fraction of the market, they'll dictate extensions to the standard, then split us as groups are split between good suggestions, and those realizing we're losing control. Meta will try to take over and monetize the network - that's what a corporation is. Even if right now every single person there is doing it for the right reason, sooner rather than later it will start looking for where the money is
The fediverse is way too young and vulnerable right now... There's going to be efforts to kill or control it, there's no need to invite them in
When Reddit started posturing about "democracy", I started thinking about a direct democracy would work for moderation.
In my mind, it's a lot like this - you ask members of the community to moderate a few comments. But you then take their decisions and put through another round with another temp mod.
Only if they corroborate each other do you perform a mod action. Not sure how mod tools handle it (long term obligations stress me out), but I envision you'd have to mark a comment for removal and check off the rule(s) it violates
Similar to your idea, it would turn a responsibility into volunteer work you could do in the moment, and it could ensure that the rules are based on the understanding the community has of them
There's a lot of ways to slice it, and it would need some light statistics, but it's something possible if people are into the idea
I think it matters. It's not about practical difficulty - it's a mental barrier
If you make an account here, you're a member. Doesn't matter if you have 4 other accounts on other servers, the minute you sign up this becomes one of your servers
It's a very low bar, and a very open community. But I think you should have to actually join it, so that you feel invested in it
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