The 100% fake enthusiasm, especially if it comes after buying a mediocre product.

The annoying corporate speak.

The bad voice over where lipsyncing is completely gone, this is mostly a thing of the past here in Sweden, but from time to time you get ads from companies launching a product across europe and only record one video to the ad and then translate and do a new voiceover for specific languages as needed, but fail to sync the audio with the video.

Annoying music, for months now a company has been pushing their financial services withe the same terrible ad that is a slideshow and an increadibly annoying music, there is no person talking, they just have a fast tempo music track. I have vowed to never buy anything from them because their ad sucks and is annoying.

Reusing ads, sometimes a company buys almost all ad slots on YT over months and reuse their one ad video so it is completely grating.

Self-righteousness, some ads go from being overly enthusiastic to being intolerably self-righteous. There was a new clinic chain of companies that started a big push a few years ago on yt and for several months you had to listen to an overly kind and happy grandmother wearing a company branded sweater, faking a hearty laugh and telling people to go to their clinic.

I remember being taught in school to apply source criticism, and that seems to have largely died as a concept.

This was back in the early 2000s…

Yep, but you also need to get rid of FPTP.

Without that, gerrymendring won’t work, and you’ll actually be able to get more than two parties as realistic optiobs to vote for.

Thank you for your concern, as it stands now that local way of interaction between vehicles is at odds with the current galactic standard as noted in Book 29 (transportation), Chapter 61 (optical communication), section 5 (visual spectrum), subsection 2 (visual specturm communication between space faring civilizations and non space faring civilizations)

I will preset your comment as a suggestion to the grand court, who may agree to publish a local exception in Book 12 (exceptions).

Speaking as a Voxon who captains a Kerglyz KG-7 scout craft (with the boosted manifold), I feel like I can offer an interesting viewpoint.

If we hover before landing it is a sign that we see you and are yelding to you, you can just pass under us, but please, to make it clear that you understand the situation and to alert us if we have strayed into your path inadvertetly, just flash your highbeams twice, indicating that you see us and intend to pass.

We are normally just doing surveys and gathering data, we are doing our best to stay out of the way.

On the very end of the graph you can see it sort of beginning to stabalize, there was even a small uptick in the second to last point, and sure, the last point shows a small decrease again.

My point is that it is too early to call out for danger regarding mastodon, that is too alarmist and may scare new users from the platform, speeding up the end of Mastodon.

So untill we have a period of time without surges it is hard to determine user growth

You are absolutely right that I am refering to the Gartner cycle.

It doesn’t fit exactly, but the general pattern fit very well with the first half.

The Mastodon graph just happens to have two hype sections.

The slopes you meassure are still tied to the preceeding surges, so I can’t treat them as any indication of success/failure.

To me it kinda looks like we are in the trough of disillusionment, which is a normal period of any new tech/system.

With improvements to the network we soon hit the slope of enlightenment.

I disagree with your and the author’s conclusions.

I have made my own long comment about it in thread, so here I am going to focus on your chart.

First, I will accept the data of the chart at face value, it seems resonably accurate and I don’t have any other data to work off of.

My point is that you are interpreting it wrong.

To me the declining slopes after the sruges are not relevant to any long term conclusions, they follow a highly predictable curve and doesn’t mean much.

If you look at the end of the graphs you can even see it growing slightly, that is obviously not evidence of anything yet, but to me it is an indication of either a start of another surge, or stability.

I believe you are too quick at spreading doom for Mastodon, give it half a year and look at the stats then, we won’t see a meteoric rise of active users any time soon, just accept it and work with more realistic expectations.

Mastodon is not struggling.

1. Mastodon is not a single entity, if mastodon.art dies tomorrow I would just create a new Mastodon profile on another instance.
2. Yeah, Mastodon use surged in 2022 and 2023, and yeah most users didn’t stay around, but compared to the numbers before 2022, Mastodon has s big bump of new users.

Looking at two surges of new users seeing the vast majority not stick around and missing that a sizable chunk still stayed is missing the point.

This article would never have been written if the user increase didn’t have temporary surges, that result would be the same number of users, but less brand recognition.

Mastodon is also not driven by the same kind of metrics as a centralized system, plenty of people can just run their own instance just for the fun of it, they don’t need constant growth.

So calm down, and take it slow.

Don’t sell Mastodon short.

Windows 11, the settings panel, a terrifying combination of old and new technology.

Thanks for giving me actual numbers, that makes it sound less insane.

Karl Smallwood makes this content, some like it, others don’t.

When Sony saw Crash Bandicoot running on a PS1 for the first time, they had no idea how the PS1 actually was able to run it.

When even the developers of the system you are using have no idea of how a program is running on their new system, they you know you have some advanced stuff:

https://youtu.be/pU_7Id8D-1A

Taking this at face value, I note two things:

1. This shit would overload our current electricity grid fast!
2. This is a terrifying ammount of power going into the car.

As for point 1, the power has to come from somewhere, and our current power grid is already having problems keeping up with current charging currents, and if a battery like this will be able to get charged 80% in 9 min, to use it you have to have a power source to supply that ammount of power in that time.

This could possibly be mitigated somewhat with huge batteries at the charge station that get charged slowly over time and that is then used to boost the charging of the car, but this would need specialized maintenance and commes with big potential risks.

As for point 2, the huge ammounts of power being delivered to the car will require a perfect connection between the power source and the car, it will require heavy insulation in and around the car, I wouldn’t want to be within 10 meters of the car while charging due to potential risk of arc flash.

The SSN is not a national ID number, it is being used as one, but that was never the purpose behind it.

Just the fact that it is a serial number without any checksum is enough to tell you that it is not a proper ID number system.

This quote from the below article shows how ridiculous the situation is:

currently citizens are identified by a patchwork of documents issued by both the Federal government of the United States as well as individual State governments of the United States and Local government in the United States governments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_documents_in_the_United_States

You never want to hear/read the word “patchwork” when describing a national ID system…

It is 2024, you are the richest country in the world, the fact that this is an actual issue is embarrassing.

This all stems from you guys not having a proper national ID number system.

Get that sorted, it would make your life sooooo much easier.

To be honest, I mostly made the comment as a joke.

But if you like them, check them out, however know that Fluxbox will not support Wayland, you need to look at Waybox for that.

I have no idea about is WindowMaker supporrs Wayland.

Yeah, but it is something.

Window Maker or Fluxbox