Pretty much, yes. - Shodan user

this is a clear case of hate crime that ended in murder

The kid fortunately survived.

We really weren’t.

It's a 50/50 split between Waldemar and Eugen.

Not surprising. We're in a gold rush for AI and Nvidia is selling shovels.

For sure - they did the same thing for the Apple watch. Twice, actually.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRwkZWowI8o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOHj5kGU4fY

Or many of the other games in the genre as long as they have auto-aim. Brotato and halls of torment are worth checking out, imo.

Elon has trauma from being ousted as CEO by the board at x.com (the company that would later become PayPal).

He's living in the past.

I’m not sure if it’s every ADHD person, but I have accidentally quit smoking.

If you can accidentally quit a physically addictive habit, things like brushing your teeth don’t stand a chance.

I think the issue is that people nowadays have come to expect a certain degree of individualized feeds and discovery features.

There is probably plenty of content on mastodon that would be of interest to any given user, but the discoverability is kind of lacking - especially if you are used to Twitter's algorithmic feed.

I wonder what it is that is keeping more diverse users away?

One aspect is that federation is definitely a bit harder to wrap your head around technically.

But I think another large contributor is the fact that culturally, the zoomers never really grew up with things like independent forums. I'm 33 and back in t the day it was very common for me to be signed up to many different forums for my different interests. Over time, I've seen the centralization of those communities, forums shut down and centralized services like Reddit, and lately Discord took their place.
I remember a time when the internet wasn't solely controlled by a handful of organisations, I can see the value in federated systems. But someone who only knows centralized services and walled gardens is likely to fear the wild, or at least won't value it as much.

//edit: Another thing to keep in mind, is that it's just very common for this demographic to be early adopters for tech products and platforms. I remember when Twitter started, and a large part of its early user base was people in their 30s or older who were very into tech, or journalists. The reason I started using Twitter towards the end of the 2000s was because most of the podcast hosts and regular contributors on the TWiT network were using it.
Seems to me that if you want to launch a social media platform, your early adopters are either guys who are into tech and in their 30s and 40s or teenage girls.

Piracy is a service problem, I'm not necessarily doing it for ideological purposes. The music industry, for the most part, has got that. The TV and movie industry, however, is just learning it now, again.

If I can get the content I want conveniently and for a fair price, I have no issues with paying. It's not like I don't have other options. I've been on what before it got shut down, and I've been on red ever since. But apart from the obscure stuff that I can't get on Spotify, I rarely use it.