To be honest, 2023 has feel relatively calmer than the past few, I guess covid being that all encompassing to life. Of the things on your list I do think AI is probably the first thing that comes to mind when I think of what we are "on the brink of". This leap that happened the past couple years in LLM was shocking enough, wondering what the next couple are going to look like.

Yup, exactly. Welcome to the fediverse!

Ernest might have also gotten up more servers to handle the load, noticing that cloudflare is off and we are federating again (this is a beehaw thread)

Ohh, I like zines as a shortened version

The true fear is when everything passes locally and then suddenly fails on the CICD pipeline.

I'm just waiting for the real Streisand effect to kick in if they ban /r/redditalternatives

There are so many ways they could have made it viable. Like comically easy. But that was never what they were interested in. The thing that they aren't willing to just come out and say, is that their own app is built to generate advertising revenue. They have absolutely zero interest in fostering a 3rd party community, and the only concessions they are going to make are for things that actually have a chance at saving the spending money (i.e. make sure the free labor they get from moderators stays and make sure other people deal with questions like accessibility).

I'm sure there are some people purchasing those, but you also get some for free. Looks like I have 800 worth I could give out.

Steve actually doubled down on the blackmail accusation when we have to recording, my god this is some juicy drama.