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Comment · 4 years ago
> ___ is inefficient but that's a good tradeoff

Everyone who knows that a technology where decentralization is one of the requirements will know this, and they will also know that this is a required tradeoff when it comes to decentralization - no free lunch.

A lot of people skewer blockchain-based tech for ineffeciency, but not a lot of those people realize it's supposed to be like that.

I'm glad that people are at least starting to realize that a lot of decentralized tech has the prerequisite of forfeiting efficiency.

Comment · 4 years ago
What makes you think this?

I haven't observed any advantages to an office beyond overexposing the company to real estate (not really an advantage) - there is nothing I could do in person that I haven't been able to do faster in MS Teams (and better - now I have a written record and recording of everything). Another advantage of remote is that nobody ruins my train of thought by tapping me on the shoulder and asking stupid questions like "hey did you get that email." Best of all, no stupid pressure to go to lunch with anyone

Comment · 4 years ago
Most of those people were there before 2016
Comment · 4 years ago
The average Twitter user likely does not know what a file is (see: that one iPad commercial where the kid says "what's a file?" or something), and likely uses a mobile device of some kind (tablet or phone) as their daily driver.
Comment · 4 years ago
Mastodon is a bunch of separate federated Mastodon instances. In order to see content from several you need to connect to each of them (if memory serves, your identity and social graph are not portable between instances due to the limitations of ActivityPub. This is a problem Dorsey's @ Protocol attempts to solve). That does let you see the illusion of centralization though, sort of like email which is also federated
Comment · 4 years ago
The technical barrier to entry ensures "normies" will not be able to use or understand (or at least enjoy) Mastodon. This will prevent it from becoming as huge as Twitter
Comment · 4 years ago
The more you measure productivity, the less productivity there will be. Employees spend a good amount of time documenting their productivity for nonsense like performance reviews, and that is a lot of time that could have been spent doing actual work
Comment · 4 years ago
Were you intoxicated when you wrote this, or am I just really tired? I'm having trouble connecting the dots on what you're saying. It seems all over the place
Comment · 4 years ago
If you require censorship to show the correctness of your position, you are automatically wrong
Comment · 4 years ago
Honestly the fact that more tools are needed to make Mastodon usable shows that federation technology is "not there yet." I hope we are able to improve stuff to the point where it is usable.

Something I'm keeping an eye on is the @ protocol that is being designed specifically for the creation of federated social media applications -- it allows for portable identity and your social graph is portable, these things are not tethered to an instance of something. Hopefully that will be an upgrade so there will be less "jury-rigging" like this required to make federated applications usable

Comment · 4 years ago
They didn't mention any currency creation, they only mentioned the creation of a DAO. That's a far cry from trying to make a currency
Comment · 4 years ago
>management has little idea how to judge the quality of an individual idea

This is a management-being-incompetent problem, which is likely not a universal problem

Comment · 4 years ago
They made it so "user-friendly" it is no longer user-friendly.
Comment · 4 years ago
This is how it should be. "Daily status updates" regarding what you're working on are useless. It should be a short message or email containing roadblocks or small updates to let others know you unblocked them that is sent to people on a need-to-know basis, which does not include your manager (it may include your project manager) unless they are also a developer. The whole team does not need to know what you're up to

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