Anomander

I’m always so torn on him; he makes interesting videos about compelling topics that are reasonably well researched … but as nitpicky as it is, I cannot deal with his accent for very long. I’m completely willing to believe it’s actually genuine, but it sounds like an American doing a bad impression of a posh British lordling.

There’s the necessary info, thank you! - I’ve heard horror stories about hosting exit nodes, and was immediately spooked this would result in the same issues.

I remember the G4 with great fondness; my dad’s G4 was what I did homework and gamed on as a highschooler, and then when he retired it I brought it to college and it served as our living room ‘jukebox’ for another five years.

Tumblr remains impressively Not Dead given its ownership and finance history.

When ye olde Eternal September hit, many new users did not realize B1FF was satire, and thus chose to emulate the coolest dude on the internet.

I always loved the convergence of the various Rustled Jimmies memes popping off, just before Harambe happened.

The other one was manufacturing and engineering teams ‘back home’ would scrawl the Kilroy on parts, like while ships or tanks were being assembled, that would otherwise be inaccessible - which meant that when that thing was hit, or taken apart for maintenance closer to the front, Kilroy was like, inside the sealed-up wall or at the bottom of the engine compartment.

In both your example and this one - both growing the myth that no matter where you went, Kilroy had been there first.

According to my grandpa, it was a myth that they used to feed the new guys and green squads, like a Santa myth, and putting on “genuine belief” in the Kilroy myth was as much of a running joke as the myth itself was. He claimed servicemen were also constantly trying to get commanding officers to unwittingly participate, by doing stuff like submitting paperwork signed Kilroy or that referenced him already being somewhere when troops liberated it - in the hopes that report or news tidbit would be one that COs shared as announcements.

So that one subscription is effectively how ‘my’ instance becomes aware any specific community off-instance, in order to check for posts there?

That both makes sense and is rather counterintuitive at the same time.

This reads a lot like you’re kind of working to shit on them, though.

It looks dead.

Ok? I don’t know how you’d get that impression and you don’t really elaborate, but I don’t really see what might lead to that impression.

You can’t even join unless you know someone, to recover your password you need to send an email, and the most upvoted post has 500 votes.

Yeah. Invite systems are a valid solution when you’re looking to limit the pace of growth, and social media sites like aggregators often want to rate-limit growth in order to avoid an Eternal September moment changing their culture. Password recovery is amusingly antiquated. Their scoring works different and the numbers don’t translate 1:1.

The about section has a philosophy section which likely took longer to write than was taken designing the website, and one of the top posts is about how they’re going reorganise everything into their equivalent of subreddits. What’s the point if you only have 100 users?

Yeah. Welcome to Tildes, a site utterly dedicated to high-concept, high-content, participation and engagement - with near every aspect of its design based around discouraging low-bar contribution and encouraging effortposts. If you personally find a long philosophy section and a ultra-simple aesthetic to be disengaging to you - then they’re probably working as intended, and you’re just not the target demographic. They’re reaching about the same growth point as Reddit did when it made that decision themselves, and from what he said in the announcement they’re facing the same problems. They’re sitting at numbers well above “100 users” though, - as mentioned, they’re not trying to be a highly-active and super-busy space. Several thousand users on Tildes produce a much smaller total footprint than several thousand users on lemmy or kbin.

Because the guy who created it, seemingly doesn’t get that times have changed. I mean, the nokia 3310 was a great phone in its day, but it’s 2023.

And I get that they don’t care, but if your main audience is former mods who like organising things without the interference of users, they’re not going to have enough or sufficiently interesting content to attract critical mass and a wider audience.

At which point, you might as well turn your reddit replacement into a wordpress blog and have the same discussions you’re having now in the comment section. Because unlike tildes, people are working on plugins which will allow wordpress to become fully part of the fediverse.

This is the part where it’s just like … did Demiorz kill your dog and fuck your wife or something? Because these read as if it’s coming from a pretty personal set of feelings for you.

It’s a website where you are not the target user. That’s fine. You don’t need to hate them for that. They don’t need to change for you.

If this whole thing isn’t personal between you and them and is simply about the fact that they’re a ‘reddit alternative’ that isn’t the Fediverse, I think playing Websites We Use like it’s sports teams where our guys are the best and everyone else is shit is … kinda juvenile.

About Tildes, it seems to be more of a clone of Digg in the old days.

It may resemble digg 1.0, but it’s intended as a spiritual successor to pre-diggpocalypse reddit. It’s a project by the guy who originally built Automod and is very much like Reddit was just prior to the launch of the subreddit system - two years before digg 4.0 launched and the refugees started arriving.

Intended to be more of a wide-open commons than a platform for subdivided or niche communities.

Tildes has very limited adoption during the reddit protests because it’s on an invite system and doesn’t want a huge influx of new people all at once, for all that it is accepting and even seeking growth over time.

Was this written by GPT?

Yeah, absolutely nothing was preventing them from doing so already, without launching Threads.

Blocking Meta / Threads instances isn’t going to stop them, either.