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Cake day: October 18th, 2023

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  • I strongly disagree meta’s involvement is necessary for the fediverse to grow and become big. Snowballing is a very real thing and as long as growth continues to happen, that will encourage more growth.

    The threat of meta is a huge jump in growth, and communities that then centralize around those users. Once popular communities are established on meta servers, they have control. If they choose to split or defederate those communities on the non-meta side of the fence would be back to square one building from scratch. That is the problem and if we don’t see it for what it is we will be left with nothing.





  • Paraphrasing a comment I read:

    ‘Think of the food supply, we have a surplus supply of food but still people go hungry. Increasing the supply further does nothing to address the underlying issue.’

    The issue in South Korea is cosmetic doctors make 2 to 3 times more than those in fields deemed necessary, which the government sets caps on. This means fields deemed necessary are understaffed. The governments current plan in to try and flood the cosmetic labor field to bring down those incomes and force people to work in the needed fields. It’s a stupid approach because they aren’t able to say what the true issue is, and as such will never actually address the problem.








  • For sharing lists I definitely try to prioritize albums that don’t get as much love. Little Simz got alot of critical praise and is probably the exception, but 2021 was a little slow (wonder why…). 2022 however was so amazing, I am still discovering banger albums that I missed on release.

    I feel like in the current streaming landscape it can be really difficult to catch new stuff on release. KEXP helps a ton but so much still slips by from my favorite genres. I’ve checked out a few genre specific podcasts and found some great stuff, but if I am in a music mood I don’t want to listen to talking about music and if I am in a podcast mood I usually just want to laugh.