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Cake day: July 30th, 2023

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  • It could make for a good Black Mirror episode. Two awkward people buy AI glasses and supposedly fall in love with each other, but they’re always just going along with what the AI tells them to say. They end up both saying they have shared interests that they actually hate and while they’re with their dream romantic interest they had before dating, their whole lives are miserable. Finally in advanced age one is dying and can’t wear the glasses. For the first time in their relationship they’re honest, and the two discover that they actually share their real interests and have tons of things in common. However, for fear being rejected they both spent their whole lives miserable with each other instead of having a potentially perfect life together if only one of them had ever taken the glasses off.


  • If you’re only interested in topics then switching from another social network to fediverse isn’t so bad. But a lot of the twitter userbase is there because they want to follow people not topics. If you’re into journalism all the journalists are there. If you’re in the art world all the artists are there. Prior to musk it was easy to know that you were following who you thought you were. And the value is in that group of people all being there.

    It’s like how it’s not a big deal for me that I quit reddit to come here, but I still have to maintain a Facebook and LinkedIn presence for my career. I can’t (yet, anyways) tell people I meet at conferences to look me up on fediverse and then have to explain what that is and how it works and make sure they follow the right account name from the right instance.



  • I finally just made an account on kbin.social to get a little more familiar with this whole fediverse thing and see where I want to actually consider home. But for the past few weeks I’ve been following the redditalternatives subreddit and looking at various instances of lemmy/kbin. I made a post there about noticing that depending on which instance I view a thread from it’ll contain a different number of comments despite being the same thread shared with federated instances. I was told that the data sync (not sure the proper terminology yet) is still a bit laggy & buggy so it takes some for the data to propagate to all federated instances and some comments may not sync at all. This is one of my biggest concerns on using fediverse as a platform.