You can see my longer comments on the topic elsewhere in this post, but in general I think it's a lot of corruption and laziness on the part of the government and a lot of complacency and NIMBYism on the part of people.
They'll scream their heads off at town meeting if the police station isn't flying a pride flag, and then scream their heads off because the proposed housing development that includes some portion of affordable housing will "change the character of the town" too much.
Sorry, argv_minus_one, we Oregonians and Massachusettsers aren't allowed to note all the things wrong with our states because we get weed and abortions.
I get how it can feel a little inconsiderate for us to gripe in the presence of folks in states where their rights are newly under attack. But also maybe there's a reason both of our states have high costs of living, low rates of diversity, and pretty bad housing crises?
Of course, sorry I didn't mean to imply that things aren't relatively better here. I just get wary when someone talks about how good single-party rule would be for them.
Certainly yes, we have legal weed and nobody is making us register with a government I'd when we wanna look at porn.
However, many - or even most - efforts to address inequality are not real or effective.
The greater Boston area is one of the most expensive real estate markets in the country. The city itself is largely out of reach for folks not in tech, biotech, or finance. Meanwhile it has a very rich history of discrimination and segregation that continues to this day with no end in sight. Meanwhile, NIMBY "progressives" continue to vote down proposals for new housing - affordable or otherwise.
Lots of folks being priced out of most of the state and moving down south. And kots of folks wanting to move up here, but can't make the numbers work.
The trouble with single-party rule is when they get too comfortable. MA has been essentially a single-party state for a long time now. Rather than continually doing good (or bad or anything at all) the legislature has grown lazy and corrupt.
The MA state legislature is one of the least transparent legislatures in the nation. Many legislators are firmly in the pocket of corporations and special interest groups. Our public transit is actively crumbling. And they have sent hardly anything of consequence to the governor's desk this year.
Single-party rule - no matter the party - is bad news. Which makes it all the more unfortunate that they were able to FUD the ranked-choice voting initiative out of existence in 2020, so there's no end in sight.
I love the new layout and structure of the list views! Much more efficient use of vertical space.
However, I still wish I could view the domains of outgoing links of posts easily so I quit blindly clicking through to YouTube when I can't watch a video, avoid poor quality blog spam, and junk like that. I checked for a setting or things like that but I didn't see anything.
The fediverse (and Lemmy/kbin specifically) is both smaller than reddit and more spread out. So you aren't as likely to find threads with thousands of comments as you would on reddit.
Reddit is estimated to have over 500,000,000 monthly active users. Meanwhile, some estimates suggest Lemmy an kbin have about 60,000 monthly active users.
And when you make a post on Lemmy, you aren't posting to /r/gaming, with 37,300,000 subscribers and 9,500 currently online. You might be posting to https://beehaw.org/c/gaming which boasts 6,950 users per month or https://lemmy.ml/c/gaming with 942 users per month or https://lemmy.world/c/games with 1,150 users per month. Those 3 large-for-lemmy gaming communities combined see fewer users each month than reddit says is on /r/gaming right now.
There simply aren't enough people in the same space interacting with the same content to consistently have comment sections with the depth and breadth that you're used to.
As the other commenter said, you can seek out large comment sections by viewing federated timeline and sorting for it, but there's no guarantee the activity will be on posts you care about.
It seems like everyone is so terrified of being quoted in one of those "computers? that'll never catch on" things in 50 years that they'll jump on anything just to be on the cutting edge.
I mean, that and getting their first mover advantage. And enriching the owners of a company by legitimizing a personal investment by making sure the company gets into that space as well (see: NFT video games).
It's wild to learn about how active some companies were in the "metaverse" space given that I was able to avoid almost all information about it for it's entire lifetime.
It doesn't matter how "Fuckerberg" defines those terms. These are listings from the Apple App Store and are defined by Apple. Sensitive info is:
Such as racial or ethnic data, sexual orientation, pregnancy or childbirth information, disability, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, political opinion, genetic information, or biometric data
Let's say you run a moderately successful flea market. You own a moderately sized field. You employ a staff of accountable organizers to vet and select your vendors to ensure they aren't selling anything you don't want at your market (say Nazi paraphernalia, guns). You have security staff and volunteers at the event itself to ensure vendors and customers are safe - they ensure vendors aren't selling anything they shouldn't be, they ensure customers don't try to steal or assault your vendors, they make sure nobody accidentally sets the field on fire, they manage the parking lot and portapotties.
A collective of artisans admire your success and buy up an adjacent field. While your flea market focuses on second hand and vintage goods, they want somewhere to sell handmade things. The organizers of your event work with the organizers of that event to share strategies and ensure both markets can reasonably remain safe and popular. Since they by and large hold themselves to the same standards as you, you agree to share a parking lot and build paths between your two fields.
A local farmers co-op eventually joins your meta-organization in the same way to offer fresh meat and produce.
Now you have a bustling megamarket. The billionaire that owns the local mall sees a drop in revenue due to folks going to the fields for secondhand clothes, fresh produce, and local art. People aren't shopping with you as much anymore.
The billionaire comes up with a plan to recapture the market. Open air markets in fields are popular now? The billionaire buys the rest of the farmland around your fields and flattens it. They pour a paved parking lot with a dedicated interchange with the local highway. They promise a mix of big corporate vendors and allow smaller vendors to set up their own tents and sell right alongside everyone else.
You think, wow this is a great opportunity to grow all of our markets even more. You start building pathways from your field into the billionaire's field so customers can easily get between your markets.
But soon, you start to notice something. People start parking at the billionaire's field because it is paved and has easy highway access. Some of your vendors have started pulling out of your markets so they can go set up at the billionaire's field so folks see their tent before they have spent all their money. Vendors who don't move start having to pull out as the market is no longer worth their time or money. With fewer vendors, even more people avoid your fields and stay in the billionaire's field.
And you start to notice something else. The billionaire started posting folks at the oath between your fields. Your markets have a few vendors the billionaire and their corporate vendors deem unsavory - erotic art, microbrewed beer, that sort of thing. They won't allow in any customers who have bought anything from those vendors because they run a family friendly establishment. Soon, the people who still come to your side of the field are avoiding those vendors.
You notice an additional thing. The billionaire isn't as diligent at vendor management as you are, especially with the amount of resources they're using making sure nobody is carrying around erotic art from your market. While the side of the field near the parking lot where all the corporate vendors are is bright and shiny, you've noticed some questionable things happening near your side of the field. The antiques dealer is selling Nazi paraphernalia. The information tent for the local gun club has started to sell firearms with no background checks. The carnival toy vendor is secretly selling opiates. Folks who shop there keep trying to get into your markets and your security folks are having a hard time keeping a handle on things. You don't have the resources to screen everyone who comes in. You end up having to fence off your paths to prevent folks coming from that market from causing harm to your vendors and customers.
But by this point most of your customers are accustomed to using the fancy parking lot and shopping with the corporate vendors. They're confronted with a decision: do they just keep going to the billionaire's field and get their clothes from the TJ Maxx tent or are they willing to make two stops so they can still peruse the cute vintage clothing?
Driving all the way around the fields to get to the other parking lot is pretty inconvenient so don't bother. Eventually you can't make the property tax payments for your field and you have to sell. The dream is done. The billionaire buys up the fields and expands their market.
Now rewind. You are an enthusiastic customer of the farmer's market. How do you feel about the billionaire's plan to buy up adjacent farmland?
(I was not able to work in a metaphor for meta "extending" activitypub with "new features" that aren't part of the spec and forcing the rest of the fediverse to comply or get left behind)
Holy shoot. I had of course heard about the Louisiana law, but I didn't realize there were quite so many copycats introduced and even signed. Terrifying!
I honestly can't see any of these surviving a challenge on constitutional grounds, so I think an official challenge will eventually take care of these, but ffs how are so many people elected in so many states that think this is okay?
The trouble is, many hackathons these days aren't "programming tournaments." They are advertising for a company/group or a way for that company/group to solicit new business ideas.
This goes double for the blockchain space where everything is about appearances and hype.
So as others have said, I don't think you should be upset about the "politics" of the winners, but rather about the actual purpose of the "hackathon."
I'm curious, I've never released a mobile app nor had to write a privacy policy.
When the privacy controls says it collects health information and sensitive info, is that because I can put that information in posts that I make and by definition of posting it, Meta has access to it? Or does it indicate specific data collection (somehow) or processing of submitted posts to collect that data from prose?
That is, if I were to post "I am an atheist and have a prescription for a daily control inhaler" does that constitute beehaw processing sensitive information and health information from me? Or does that just fall under general "user content" and the specific categories must come from somewhere specific?