Psycho Cod3r @PsychoCod3r@qoto.org

@thalweg
They probably still have your photos, but want you to think they're deleted. Sort of like how Android's tracking service is still on even if you turn it off.

@worldsendless
Isn't boosting just the Mastodon equivalent of retweeting?

@tripu
Who says the Metaverse can't have microtransactions?

@tripu
I'd call it a complete gamble, like any other stupid idea that still has the potential to be massively successful.

@lucifargundam
Just started out on this platform. Happy New Year.

@underlap
I will say my definition of success is rather self-serving. Not that I don't see the value in helping those who are really suffering, but I see living well and being successful as two separate things.

@worldsendless
IMO making web pages is more of a creative skill than a technical skill. HTML coding requires none of the logical skills required for actual programming. The main skill required is a good sense for UX design.

The fundamental problem with altruism is that almost everything in life is a zero-sum game. It's not possible to improve the conditions of the game for everyone, because the only way to get ahead is if someone else falls behind. If you succeed in life, it's always going to be at someone else's expense.

These good samaritans who try to red-pill the normies, raise awareness of how the game works and teach the normies how to play - all they're doing is making the game harder for smart people. Doesn't matter if it's investing, computer security, avoiding poisons in food, etc. If everyone starts using better security software and better privacy practices, what happens? Governments start pressuring the makers of those software products to install backdoors, and at the same time, technologies that are universally adopted become infinitely juicier targets for black hat hackers. If everyone becomes educated on what's good food and what's poison, food companies will just double down on fudging the numbers and obfuscating their ingredients and nutrition facts, making it increasingly difficult to determine if something is good for you.

Whatever level of competence the vast majority of people are able to reach, that level is going to become the new baseline, the new mediocre. It's simply not possible to equip everyone for success, especially if these people are herd animals and are set on doing things a certain way. I think in a lot of ways it's better if the masses stay ignorant.

@verita84 @admin @ArdanianRight
That may be the case. However, my priority is promoting my personal brand so I can eventually make money off of it, and embracing sites like Minds and Gab doesn't really help in that area.

@verita84 @admin @ArdanianRight
I wish that were possible, but unfortunately we live in a time of ubiquitous censorship. That's just the world we live in. You can either adapt, or continue being an idealist and end up losing in the end.

@verita84
I'm not going to argue with that. I will say, however, that not everything can be a win-win situation. The problem with idealists is that they fail to see the nuances and the areas where their ideology breaks down. Sometimes you have to view things realistically, and act accordingly.

@verita84
Sometimes you have to make compromises. I've been on Minds, and the problem with that platform is that because of its reputation, the only people interested in joining are Alt-Right Nazis, InfoWars fans, QAnon, etc. That's not a balanced user base by any means, and it's stunting the growth of those platforms. I gave up on Minds because I decided it had basically no growth potential, because it was only appealing to a very limited demographic.

@verita84
That's actually a good thing, because the main thing that prevents pure "free speech" platforms like Minds and Bitchute from taking off is that everyone views them as hotbeds for right wing extremism. I like the fact that Mastodon is anti-censorship, yet still doesn't tolerate hate speech. If anything, that will remove the biggest potential barrier to its growth.

@verita84
I never heard about that. I've only been here for a little over 24 hours, so I'm unfamiliar with the lore of this platform.

@verita84
But it'll still get a ton of free publicity. 😜

@verita84
That may start to change very soon, since I hear Elon Musk is taking an interest in Web 3.0.

@verita84
A good example of something that's not oversaturated is Mastodon and other Web 3.0 platforms. Virtually no one knows that Mastodon exists or knows what Web 3.0 is, yet there's massive potential for it to be the next big thing in social media, which means these platforms are still untapped. I realized early on that if I can gain a foothold in these platforms while they're still young, then when the platform eventually gets discovered by the normies and blows up, my brand will blow up with it. You need to be able to see potential in something where other people don't. Taking the beaten path can only lead to mediocrity.

@verita84
Sorry, when I said "ETFs" I meant "NFTs".

@verita84
I've never used Robinhood. As a general rule, I stay away from things that have a lot of hype attached to them (Game Stop, Big Tech stocks, Bitcoin, ETFs, etc.) Hype basically guarantees that something is overvalued or that the market is oversaturated. My rule is to look at what all the normies are doing and do the exact opposite.

@verita84
I've never traded crypto so I wouldn't know.