Emptiness

I’m still confounded by workplaces that run the old nineties way of VPN handshake by browser. Clunky, clumsy just straight up bad digital workplace setup.

There is no reason to not do it the modern way where all the handshaking and connecting is done under the hood, hidden from the user. At the most you as a user should only see the tiny little systray icon switch how it looks.

But instead use…?

[this is where you add your constructive options]

Shitter TV. Only spelled differently.

I’ll have the chicken then.

I know it’s just a comic but I still disagree with it’s message. Phones are essentially mini-computers connected to the Internet which has the potential for endless dopamine-inducing entertainment and we carry them around with us 24/7. A very powerful dopamine-pump, with us around the clock, every day. This has actually never happened before in history.

The difference is time. With time a federated Threads will build it’s own massive library of content, suck in it’s own users and then slowly make all of that proprietary and locked down from the rest of the fediverse.

It’s a long con that’s been done several times by big corporations.

De federate now and that content and those users will have to choose now. Meta or fediverse. The scales are still uneven, but less uneven than in that future.