Also auto updating block lists and topic filter lists powered by crowdsourced tagging are very important features these day.

And customized feeds are nice for when you want to add an algorithm (or many different ones) rather than just the usual default list of all skeets sorted in order with no algorithm behind it.

Mine isn’t any slower than the AppleTV I used before. No issues there either. My only wishes would be for it to have parental controls and let me change the screensaver.

Maybe I got lucky with my Philips oled running Android TV, but it’s pretty quick, no ads other than recommended shows from networks, and I can choose which ones. I don’t recall it asking about data collection, but whatever the streaming services are doing it already. I like having all the streaming apps built in, then I don’t have to manage another device for this. Overall I’m surprisingly happy with it.

Would be hilarious if they tried. I wouldn’t put it past them.

Economists would call this leveraged economic growth and not consider it a bad thing.

That’s a pretty important caveat. I would take it one step further to say that it only matters in non-communist governments. Yes, maybe China can pull it off. But even losing a large chunk of 40% of the economy will be pretty bad and they’d have to switch to something pretty close to fully communist pretty quick to pick up the slack.

I don’t think you necessarily need GDP growth to have a healthy small amount of inflation. Inflation has more to do with monetary supply than GDP growth.

The problem with deflation is that people end up hoarding all their cash because you get a return on it without doing anything with it.

So large swathes of money start getting taken off the playing field. Investment dries up, growth slows, people get laid off, and this cycle continues, one thing causing the next, causing the next in a circle. It’s one of the most destructive forces possible to an economy.

That’s why the central banks strive for around 2%. It’s enough to force people with cash lying around to invest it in something useful which will create jobs, etc, but not so high that it will make everyone panic and run the banks.

Bluesky also has no algorithm in its “followed” feed. Any algorithm is opt-in.

Looking and doing are two different things, but I’m sure this will increase too. I left under Bush after the 2000 financial crisis and have no regrets.

It’s more like a better Twitter

Mastodon and Xitter are missing a lot of the quality of life features of Bluesky.

• Good user verification
• Add lists
• Block lists
• Subscribable topic feeds
• Configurable algorithms

These things make Bluesky very easy to get started with and more powerful even than Xitter was. It’s simply a better product if you have any requirements other than federation. Getting a good feed up and running doesn’t take more than an hour or two. It’s basically possible now on Twitter and it’s very difficult on Mastodon.

Yes, its federation is more or less bullshit, but for most users, that feature is a distant priority when compared to the rest.

It just gives you a checkmark, nothing else AFAIK.

You put a snippet of code on your website.

Bluesky has some very powerful features here like auto updating block lists which you can subscribe to and which will automatically remove trolls for you. And they are policing hate speech and harassment.

I use both and Mastodon is missing a lot of the quality of life features of Bluesky.

• Good user verification
• Add lists
• Block lists
• Subscribable topic feeds
• Configurable algorithms

These things make Bluesky very easy to get started with and more powerful even than Xitter was. It’s simply a better product if you have any requirements other than federation.

I wish it were otherwise, but that’s just the way it is.

Except the walk is happening. Bluesky feels way more thriving to me than Xitter already.

Upvoted without reading just to perpetuate the narrative.

I’m not being hyperbolic. The only thing that affects my performance is swap. On my 64gb 2018 mini, everything is instant. On my 16gb 2020 MacBook, even just opening more than 100 browser tabs makes the whole computer unusable. Give me a 16gb m4 and I will happily record a video for you of a usual day at about 40gb memory consumption and send it back.

I’m dead serious. CPU and GPU ceased being bottlenecks for most non gaming or video editing workflows a long time ago. The only one left is RAM, and Apple exploits that. By now all Macs should have 64gb as minimum config based on the actual part costs.

We can at least agree on Spider Man and TW3 ;-).