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  • Damn the downvotes. Where is OP wrong?

    1. Wikipedia CEO literally said that’s what he wants. He wants people to debate. He’s done interviews where he doesn’t want a single person to be the source of truth. The chaos is what brings consensus.

    2. You have to be stupid if you don’t think companies don’t pay people for this. It’s really not difficult to hire a “Reputation Management” team to sprinkle positive information or at least control it. Im in team meetings about it, where we have staff members who moderate major social groups and lie about endorsements.












  • Most of them didn’t allow registration. Then for the ones I did find, streaming videos was very slow and laggy. In some cases, I couldn’t even view videos. And then, it seemed that I could only search for videos that existed on that particular instance.

    As a user, I feel this pain. The defenders of how “easy” it is to join federated services, it really isn’t. There’s choice paralysis as well as waiting for registration and verification. It’s not smooth at all. Take a stop watch and set up a YouTube account, upload a video of a cat’s butt, and it’s like 2 minutes.

    As a person who rolled out my own servers, I understand the barriers. I don’t have registration because my $5/month server can’t handle it, performance-wise or spammers. Even uploading things on my server is slow.

    Hard problem to solve tbh and I don’t have a solution



  • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.nettoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.worldIt's real.
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    Fun story coming up.

    My coworker and I were building a silly web animation because the CEO gives us money and I do whatever I’m told. It involved mystical creatures flying from under a giant’s leg, all while you’re scrolling. It’s a ridiculous premise.

    While staring at this wacky project, I said out loud, “I have a bachelor’s in Computer Science.” And my coworker said, “I’m a college dropout. And here we are at the same place.”