(that is rampant speculation, sorry. but at any rate, i'm glad the limitations of chess have been addressed
― Karl Malone, Monday, 24 October 2022 21:16 (one year ago) link
lol I was briefly obsessed with Polytopia a few years back; caek's right, it's a simplified Civilization with cute icons, pretty addictive ime. I definitely liked it more than chess, but that's because it's much easier
― rob, Monday, 24 October 2022 21:20 (one year ago) link
one game lasted exactly as long as my commute when i lived in munich.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 24 October 2022 21:22 (one year ago) link
yeah that's an ideal use case
― rob, Monday, 24 October 2022 21:27 (one year ago) link
one of the limitations of chess is that it doesn't last as long as a hungover person's commute, and polytopia addresses this.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 24 October 2022 21:28 (one year ago) link
https://odditymall.com/includes/content/upload/star-trek-tridimensional-chess-set-4453.jpg
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link
The design of Polytopia does look neat
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 17:12 (one year ago) link
Tetris addresses these limitations as well.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 17:14 (one year ago) link
it's a great iphone game!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 17:43 (one year ago) link
three more days until it becomes musk brand twitter
It's all (????) happening (????) https://t.co/TndbF00O6C— Silvia Killingsworth (@silviakillings) October 25, 2022
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 17:50 (one year ago) link
lmao stock still stuck at $53. he's obviously going through with it and still nobody trusts this guy.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 17:58 (one year ago) link
No idea why they wouldn't.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 17:59 (one year ago) link
it would be nice if he tried one last minute gambit
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 18:02 (one year ago) link
he's gonna demand they split the stock on Friday morning, before he signs the check
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 18:10 (one year ago) link
I kinda agree with some less-panicked commentary I’ve heard that there’s not much he can do to change the platform and retain the particular userbase that makes it relevant. There’s a lot of professional media person panic about this kinda thing that might just skew their perception just a lil’
― Glower, Disruption & Pies (kingfish), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 18:37 (one year ago) link
the professional media person demo is absoulutely essential to the product's value though
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 18:50 (one year ago) link
they're addicted, so i doubt they leave, but if they ever do then it's over.
yeah twitter is really more a broadcast system than a social network, and the high profile users are what makes it work
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 18:54 (one year ago) link
entire communities exist now because they've found each other being haters in the replies of high profile accounts
― mh, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 18:57 (one year ago) link
one thing a technical person said on twitter the other day is that twitter is somewhat protected from someone stealing their users by the fact that twitter is hard to build, which i think is somewhat true, like you cant just build a twitter clone and be like everyone come over here unless you have a lot of money and expertise at your disposal, you could have some new thing that slowly attracts users tho, and then eventual the media people come over
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 18:59 (one year ago) link
toot toot!
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Mastodon_mascot_vector_version.svg/220px-Mastodon_mascot_vector_version.svg.png
― mark s, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:07 (one year ago) link
Its like Facebook - try getting everyone you know of Facebook to move over to slack or something - it will never happen unless they are young rebels
Facebook won the social media race - like Microsoft won the OS wars - even though both are obvious shit
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:14 (one year ago) link
facebook is dying tho, social networks altogether might be dying
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:19 (one year ago) link
praise be
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:20 (one year ago) link
I hate the reels in Instagram! How obnoxious for them to just say "hey we are like tiktok now here are some vids from people you dont even follow"
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:21 (one year ago) link
yeah thats an indication that these platforms are moving away from the social model towards the broadcast model
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:23 (one year ago) link
I cant get anyone I know to use tiktok - the model seems to be "watch videos" but a lot of people dont want to make vidoes just watch them - so I see what you are saying. Of course 18 year olds sit there all day making selfie videos so maybe its a generational thingpeople who want an audience - how human - "Human, All Too Human" Nietzsche would have loved tiktok
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:27 (one year ago) link
someone I was talking to hypothesized a trickle-down where tiktok stuff gets reposted to instagram gets pulled into facebook
the minionization of video clips
― mh, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:27 (one year ago) link
the social type stuff following liking commenting etc will prob stay around but the truest presentation of social media the chronological friend feed is already dead, people thought facebook was the future but really it was youtube, facebook was unpleasant actually lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:28 (one year ago) link
lmao
Yikes lol pic.twitter.com/pc6SXl0Ulc— Paul E Williams (@PEWilliams_) October 25, 2022
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:29 (one year ago) link
I mean that's true, people don't tweet all that much
― mh, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:29 (one year ago) link
the idea of a comment is pretty funny, you have an initial post then it has some baby posts parented by randos which are almost always bad, everyone hates the comments lol they were bad on blogs, theyre still bad, youtubers complain about their commenters all the time, commenters are causing genuine harm on twitter, this is of course a central feature of social media
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
I have seen a lot of tiktok videos on youtube so that is another trickle
you canupload someone else's video to your tiktok and get a thousand views and no one cares about copyright at all or credit
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:33 (one year ago) link
I was talking about this with my husband last night— "the dark forest is growing."
https://onezero.medium.com/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet-7dc3e68a7cb1
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:36 (one year ago) link
I certainly post more on a private Discord server than I do anywhere else except ILX— I am tired of being perceived and "creating content"
― broccoli rabe thomas (the table is the table), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:37 (one year ago) link
yeah thats the other part of social media dying the conversation aspects are moving to more chat type platforms
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:39 (one year ago) link
turns out talking to everyone all at once was not the best way to talk
what about flipping the paradigm -- everybody talks to one
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:41 (one year ago) link
I have found Facebook to be a great place to get an audience for paintings and photography. That's the motivation-rewards loop - brief hit
Internet has such great potential for non-profit betterment of life - hopefully the dark forest will include such cozy cottages
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:41 (one year ago) link
and the "one" switches all the time, like kiss cam
xp
"what about flipping the paradigm -- everybody talks to one"I like it - TalktoMebook
― | (Latham Green), Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:42 (one year ago) link
thats called the main character of the day, everyone tells them they should go to jail
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:42 (one year ago) link
yeah but what if tomorrow it was the shift manager at office depot
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:43 (one year ago) link
and suddenly everyone is talking to him
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:44 (one year ago) link
only if they say something bad online
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:44 (one year ago) link
i don't know, could be fun, i'm just saying let's flip the paradigm here
just saw some stats that over-50's make 80% of the political comments on social media... the younger folks generally avoid the subject
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:45 (one year ago) link
nobody should use tiktok
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2022/10/tiktoks-secret-operation-tracks-you-even-if-you-dont-use-it
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2022/07/tiktok-is-unacceptable-security-risk-and-should-be-removed-from-app-stores-says-fcc
― sleeve, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:45 (one year ago) link
xp and let's face it, you absolutely know the shift manager at office depot said something bad online
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 25 October 2022 19:45 (one year ago) link