Why no one talks about other victims of car accidents and their is about 6k per month on average in US alone. But Uber and Tesla are on headlines when someone dies and there is like what 3-4 victims in total after all those years? It is not even worth mentioning.
Yea, they sell culture and give away free food.
As you can see[0], most devs at FB are eating, traveling, eating, going to cafes or eating some more. ;-)
One developer or sysadmin running an instance can support hundreds of non-technical users per server. This is a model that's already validated by mastodon, which has >1M registered users across thousands of servers (and ~40k weekly active users)
And who writes on Mastodon? Mostly devs or Trump? Maybe Obama? Ellen? No? So no one will use it, ever. I'm not against technology as it is great, but looking on this as a normal user it's not appealing to me. Mastodon is like old fashion phpBB forums 15 years ago, closed groups who talk with each other. ;)
Mastodon will need to find business model sooner or later as internet isn't free as in beer because beer costs money and you can't handle 100m users with donations.
People still need to pay for it. FSF would also die of hunger if it were not for people donating them money they have to earn first... so nothing is free.
I do, though not too intensively. You are right about the difficulty of the economic problem, but I remember spending lots of time setting up a new thing called Linux to operate a small relay over dial-up when most people were using proprietary systems like Compuserve, so it's OK that the new technology is kind of slow or difficult. The important thing (IMHO) is that it be comprehensible and consistent, because it's easier to build the user interface and speed it up once it's already working.
Yes, but so called "social media" isn't about installing anything to operate with. Twitter blow up the scene because it was super easy to start with and start sharing short sentences. In Mastadon you need to find a proper community, signup and start reading, but there is not interesting content there, no celebrities, no NASA, no Musk, no news magazines there is nothing that attracts typical users. But this is just my opinion. Until someone figure out a way to make Mastodon a one network to rule them all nothing will change.
Great thing about Elon is that he believes in everything so much he is probably laughing reading those articles. I understand that myself, would lough too. There will be no future without 100% automation and for me this is the best bet you can make. We have so many areas of life that need to be automated and someone has to be first. Companies that have ancient roots are too unreformable and don't want to change what already works well for them, which is why BMW is lagging behind, despite the fact that it can produce millions of cars a year.
People will go crazy, say that he lost everything, he is stupid, etc... But he will not give a f%#k just to return with double power and hit like no other.
The devil is in the details. Automation is all about part variance, if they can't control that it will be a huge problem. Humans are flexible, robots much less so.
Probably half of that are fake profiles, profiles made by people for commercial purposes or bots. If you make fake account and you will start wandering in the endless facebook steppes, you will notice that many of them are one post account that advertise or play games. The best ones are those with pictures of known or lesser known models to collect friends and sell such an account for dollars later. I have reported several hundred of such profiles, of which maybe 1/20 have been blocked rest is fine because moderators can't see difference between real life person and photo from google images in 20 accounts in a row...
2.2 billion isn't the total number of accounts, it's the number of "monthly active users"--and Facebook would probably be in much hotter water than they are now if they cooked the books on that number.
This don't change my comment still many of them are fakes. I know people who have 5-6 accounts active at one time playing different games with 500+ friends on it. Many of those "friends" also are fakes, some even with the same profile picture of "real person" with fake data but I have nothing against FB, every medium is abused.
It's just interesting that not a single research was done on this topic that I know about. :)
Game limits, not wanting to share private account with some random folks used in games or for commercial purposes aka selling account later on and I can tell that this business is booming! :)
Person has a public karma of 59, using an IP to a direct VPS that allows bitcoin for payment. It has multiple business names in the DNS and points to a naked .ogg file. Yeah I wouldn't click on that either.
I've heard that you count as a monthly active user if you sign into something else using your FB account. If true that would inflate the number quite a bit
Advertisers in any medium probably have to accept that some people aren't paying any attention to the ad. High-viewership events cost more to advertise on, but a significant portion of the audience is going to wander off at any given commercial break.
I was already aware of that one, but sure, that's another example of the opposite of what I asked for. Rather than someone killed by conflicting or over-cautious safety systems, that's an example of someone killed by a single ineffective safety system, just like the pedestrian in Arizona.
Because normal users are not techies. They just use whatever they want and not getting into their company information, privacy or other things.
World is about money. You have to realize that that best money come form people who don't give a f$#k. They click on ads, they give their personal data, they buy the most, etc. We can rant as much as we want that Apple does not give us PRO hardware that Microsoft does the same but most of their income is from ordinary people who just use their hardware/software.
That, and the 10 other facebook-related posts currently on the front page. I understand it's a huge revelation that facebook tracks people and shares the data in ways and for purposes which we weren't aware of, but the news has been nothing but facebook for a week now. For something that was mostly known already (we knew they had it, just not that it was applied in this way), it's getting a little tedious.
Kayako. No direct account deletion, they need to poke engineer to do it after many requests. They require your personal information and CC to use free plan. No direct downgrade button to free plan if on trial.
