thing can just be fun :)

Most were rural people with farms

lmfao they were kulaks who owned serfs

honestly very believable, the only part that’s shocking is that he just says the quiet part out loud like that

yeah that’s grim

yeah pretty much, the society here drills into you that owning more stuff is how you show you’re successful

it’s kind of crazy how obsessed people can be with status

I love how these threads always make you fash come out of the woodwork.

lol there is that demographic for sure

It’s a completely different dynamic from commercial services. It needs enough users to continue developing the software, to operate servers, and to create content on the platform. There is more than enough users on the platform to ensure that it can operate indefinitely at this point. Meanwhile, most people on Mastodon, just as the case is with Lemmy, are on it because they want an open source platform. So, they’re not going to jump on another proprietary garbage platform BlueSky or W. And if a better open source platform comes along that’s a win for everyone.

And I’d argue that chasing growth for the sake of growth can itself be harmful. When you have a slow trickle of new users then they adapt to the existing culture of the platform. But if you have a huge influx of people all at once they can erase the existing communities in the process.

That’s the big question, cause I doubt there’s going to be huge demand for phones that cost a couple of grand in this economy. The fact that Apple’s been trying to secure RAM deals in China suggests they realize they need to keep prices down. We’ll have to see how it works out for them.

Mastodon is fine, it’ll outlive every commercial social media platform because it doesn’t need a funding runway or to show profit to shareholders.

for the size it’s inane

I do think they kind of lucked into it by focusing on SoC and unified memory before LLMs got big, and now they are really well positioned for running local models like Qwen.

a quintessential FAFO moment

They seem to have had the foresight to realize that this tech will quickly move to edge devices.

I bet LLMs are a big part of it because the barrier to trying different attacks is much lower now, and a lot of people don’t even realize it.

Dario is the head of Anthropic and continuously does the red scare narrative about Chinese open models.

Your whole narrative was that guns don’t work and that’s why Russian army is getting more missiles. Then faced with the fact that Russian army is actively developing more gun based systems, you just keep doubling down. At least put some effort into your trolling.

Yeah, that’s the whole point of using Ukraine as a proxy genius.

So when the AFU uses its own population as meatshields that’s legitimate war right fash?

A poorer defender can sustain unlimited losses against a wealthy attacker because they have less to lose. Trump is also learning it in Iran.

If you think Ukraine is anything like Afghanistan you’re even dumber than I thought. What Russia is learning is that NATO is a paper tiger, and that it can outproduce it militarily. And it’s hilarious that you don’t understand that Ukraine and Iran are part of the same global conflict. It’s truly amazing that a grown ass adult can be such an ignoramus.