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"Smartphones wipe out 97% of market"

It blows my mind that camera makers failed to capitalize on the smartphone. If I take a picture on my nice camera, it should automatically appear in my phone's gallery--zero gap in UX from the phone's camera. They should have stopped at nothing to achieve this.

https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Business-trends/Panasonic-Nikon-quit-developing-low-end-compact-digital-cameras

#business #photography #camera #ux #product

After all these years, it's still so difficult to figure out "what specific thing is making my computer run slow right now".

#computers #performance #gripes

DotCom boom -> network infra investment -> bust -> dark fiber : Google :: crypto boom -> miner hardware investment -> bust -> dark GPUs : ???

Skynet?

@jentrification I use the web client for my instance, which doesn't have it :(

@jentrification @atima_omara I don't have that on my instance, I don't think.

@epistemophagy I don't know this particular situation but I can relate.

People are eventually going to leave instances where they aren't given control over who they can interact with.

I turned off notifications of likes and boosts. I suspect it's healthier that way. I like that this product isn't optimized to capture my attention, provide the dopamine rush, or try to make me care about making my numbers go up.

#fediverse #mastodon #TwitterMigration

@ablackcatstail@mstdn.party It sounds like you might have misread my post.

Although do disagree with part of yours. Censorship is inevitable. It already exists in the Fediverse as defederation / filtering / suspension. No one on Hackyderm can see my posts, for example.

You can say whatever you want on your instance, but that doesn't mean other instances will deliver it to their users. Nor does it mean you hosting provider or ISP will provide you access to the outside world.

The censorship is merely decentralized.

I can imagine someone developing a network of peraonalized bots that exist to boost posts an account would like. Networked because some central store would catalog a much broader set of posts than any one account would normally see through its follows. I'm imagine an instance that only hosts these bots. Does this make technical sense?

#fediverse #mastodon

@raccoon Sort of. Your network is the algorithm.

I feel like I'm starting to understand this whole Fediverse thing. And I quite like it. There are some gnarly issues that I can see, and I do also have concerns about how it scales (maybe this isn't a problem, don't know), but I think that we don't need a centralized microblog service like Twitter.

The core Twitter value proposition is very stable. Stable enough to be a protocol, instead of a product. The innovation can happen at the product layer on top.

#fediverse #mastodon #TwitterMigration #twitter

It occurs to me that boosting is probably much more crucial in the Fediverse than on Twitter, because there's no algorithm to surface things you might like.

#fediverse #mastodon

The physical airplanes are safer, I guess. It would be cool if we could be honest about the reasons for expending so much of everyone's time.