This might be an unpopular opinion, but karma/reputation points. It only encourages hivemind and echo chambers. I'm ok with thread-specific points so that content can be ranked, but that's it.

Right? I remember watching some time ago a AI-generated video of an actress - I think it was Kirsten Stewart - doing a monologue. It was eerily undistinguishable from reality. This is happening, and actors have all the rights to be upset by it until proper compensation rules are in place.

I got in a rabbit hole of his blog articles and my word, this poor guy really had it bad his whole life. I'm glad he's better now.

What a horrible day to have a memory.

Women: "Do you men like us shaven, trimmed or natural?"

Men: "Yes"

Welcome to the Fed Side. We have cookies :)

Spez: "how much data are we storing right now?"

Minion: "uhm, a bazillion petabytes more or less."

Spez: "how much was stolen?"

Minion: "About 80GB."

Spez: "I'm going back to bed. Wake me up again like this and I'll divorce you."

for a period of time

Quite the optimist here, dude.

Non e' che ogni istanza e relativo server deve obbedire, eh. C'e' sempre la soluzione della defederazione. Dopo la fuoriuscita da Reddit, personalmente mi va bene un microcosmo social piu' mirato e con meno gente. Se arriva un Settembre Eterno anche qui, emigrero' su un'istanza defederata o usero' esclusivamente Tildes.

I would gladly wear a Roman senatorial toga all the time.

Not considering vaporware or failed products (e.g. Eolo car):

• The Esperanto language. (Yes, I'm old)

• NFTs.

• Blockchain. Yes, it has its use, but it's not the pervasive, all-use game changer it was claimed to be.

• Sony Betamax. Pity because it was better than VHS.

• New Coke. Nuff said.

Niente di nuovo, si sapeva gia' dai tempi di Meloni-Chan.

Sono tentato di postare un "Buongiornissimo kaffeeeeeeeee???" ma mi astengo

Odio i lunedi'. Niente, volevo dirvelo.

"Con la schizofrenia non mi sento mai solo, e nemmeno io!"

In Italy we have now compassion fatigue. It is just so overwhelming that we've become desensitized. Thousands of lives are saved, and lost, year on year, and nothing ever changes. The migrant plight has become both a business and a political stance to take advantage of on all sides.

Aside of those poor souls, there are no good guys in this fucked up mess. Do not be surprised, also, if the Titan wreck makes the news and the loss of 1000+ people in the space of a summer doesn't.

Because news are not subsidised anymore and need to run on money, views and paper sales.

A wreck on an iconic wreck site generates views.

The n-th migrant shipwreck does not generate views anymore (compassion fatigue, remember) unless you stick to it the picture of a dead child's body washed ashore.

It's cynical, and I hate it, but it's how it is.

Bello 'sto caffe' con pochi intimi, sembra un izakaya giapponese tipo Midnight Diner dove alla fine ci si conoscera' tutti

I'm italian, I knew what the pic was before clicking it, I clicked it anyway and now I'm having a panic attack.

try my hand

I see what you did there.

Among all Fediverse softwares, Kbin is the one I like the most - from the clean interface to the local community, which I really like - just the right balance between serious topics and memes, and decent comment quality.

Even if I'm most active on some federated communities, I don't plan to switch anytime soon.

The only headscratcher that - more than "not like", just puzzled me a bit - is the different naming convention (magazines, microblogs, etc.), but again it's a small thing.