Admittedly I’ve clicked on a handful of interesting Youtube ads but not one in the past 5 years, so I can’t remember what they were. I just don’t really see Youtube ads unless I’m on a mobile device or I turn them on to help a creator get revenue, as I use a pretty strong adblocker on my PC. Don’t snitch to Google about that though.

I’m a bit more sympathetic to Youtube ads since they are a revenue source for some of my favorite creators, as much as I hate the way Youtube goes about it. Never clicked on any other ads besides these though.

Do you guys think Elon would let me take his SpaceX Starship in a time machine back to 2021 so I could fly to Mars and survive?

No, I do not have $4 billion to pay for this endeavor, I’ll just take out a loan and tell the bank its for a scientific breakthrough.

I don’t personally use Linkedin so I can’t really comment on how a federated alternative would work or be useful for professionals and networking.

What I will say is that paid/business-related and the general fediverse culture/design seems like oil and water. Especially the paid part. It simply won’t take off unless there is a mass exodus of people from Linkedin (very unlikely). And even then, having multiple instances for something as focused on Linkedin doesn’t seem viable. It’s probably better off centralized and disconnected from a large network like the Fediverse, in my opinion.

The closest the fediverse can get to this is professionals using Mastodon or something in the same way they used Twitter before it imploded. Interesting idea though.

They look fine to me. Same as windmills creating a certain aesthetic in the places they are built.

It’s much better than having a giant power plant blocking the view of the landscape.

Usually I bought it when it was buy one get one free ever since they cancelled the $5/month Nitro Classic most people had (and replaced it with that pointless “oh please buy the more expensive nitro!” $3/month Nitro Basic).

This month, I accidentally forgot to cancel my Nitro and canceled it the day I was charged but didn’t get my money back and had to keep Nitro for the month. Lesson learned, I likely won’t be paying again. Maybe my memory is hazy, but I swore it was supposed to give your money back if you cancel quickly after being charged again.

I use Discord heavily, so I didn’t mind paying the $5/month for Nitro Classic back when it was a thing. Discord was quite good at the time and wasn’t in the process of enshittification like it is now. I can’t wrap my head around paying $10/month for Nitro though.

Matrix sounds great and all and I’d love if the communities and people I know were on it but that just isn’t the case, and this isn’t a part of my internet usage where I can use FOSS unfortunately.

That’s a pretty huge move right there, hopefully this is the first of many migrations of apps to Activity Pub software (besides Threads).

Also…the name NERV kind of threw me off for a second. Tell the anime crowd on Twitter that NERV moved to Mastodon full time and we’ll probably get an extra 2 million people in the Fediverse.