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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You can sign into Pixelfed with your mastodon account.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

From what I gather yes and no.

The fediverse is decentralized as it uses a protocol activity pub to allow lemmy, mastodon, pixelfed, etc to all talk. Moreover, most of the servers (to my knowledge) are community run. For example lemmy.world.

Bluesky made a new protocol similar to activity pub that could be used in a similar way, but its only used by Bluesky. They have allowed other users to host their own servers, but Bluesky still hosts the main servers (from what information I could find).

It seems bluesky wants to be similar to Fediverse applications, but I would have almost preferred how Threads did it; they actually use activity pub, so from mastodon you could follow threads users and vice versa. The Fediverse community wasn't fond of Threads so most servers defederated (or blocked) the Threads servers.

I feel Bluesky is doing something similar to threads. Its a corporation first that wants you to think its like the community first decentralized social networks. My take is, better than Meta/X, but I stick to Fediverse applications.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Good to know, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Those that have signed up for loops how long did it take you to get an email after sign up? I tried to sign up ~6 hours ago and still no email. I know its still early in beta but this feels like an unrealistic expectation for the average user.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Have you used loops? I tried to sign up and its been ~6 hours without a verification email. Its great they have a testflight app on iOS but I've been looking for an android apk with no luck. I really want a federated tik tok to blow up but I'm finding it hard to even get set up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Pygyat is based in Python, it makes sense they would follow the Python PEP8 standard.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

I swear if he kills aki again I'll lose it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Not quite. The point I was trying to make was that wages/housing are not necessarily tied inflation i.e. the change in the overall effective value of a dollar. Let's see if we can try to agree on a few points. The effective value of the dollar is not stagnant. It changes each year. The fed tries to ensure inflation rather than deflation to encourage investing/spending of money. As such, the rate at which more money is minted each year and federal rates are controlled to try to hit a healthy amount of inflation each year. Now, if we were to take the average percent of inflation each year between now and 1933, the value of today's dollars would be roughly (today's dollar value)=(1933's dollar value)×[1 + (average inflation rate)]^(2024-1933).

Do we agree on the above but just disagree on what the average inflation rate would be? Or is something above incorrect?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

You're completely correct in the figure for federal minimum wage and average home cost, but that doesn't mean these two figures are relevant. Let me explain.

Let's take a look at the federal minimum wage, in 1960, $1/hr, now in 2024, $7.25/hr; 7.25 times higher. Let's look at the national average cost of a home, in 1960, ~$11,000, now in 2024, ~$320,000; 29 times higher.

Does this mean that the government is lying about historic wages or housing costs since they both didn't increase at the same rate? No.

Wages have notoriously not kept pace with inflation, while housing is considered a stable asset for building generational wealth, outpacing inflation. It can be a hard concept to grasp, but the value of a dollar is much more complex than being directly tied to minimum wage or cost of housing.

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