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A geologist and archaeologist by training, a nerd by inclination - books, films, fossils, comics, rocks, games, folklore, and, generally, the rum and uncanny… Let’s have it!
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Cake day: June 11th, 2023
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2·8 days ago^This
It depends on how optimistic, I feel:
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Very - Digg died and Reddit rose, MySpace died and Facebook rose. “For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die.” Reddit and Twitter are enshittifying rapidly and we are here for when people wake up.
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Not very - Big Social Media has reached critical mass/achieved escape velocity and they’ve hoarded all the “fuel” (people) that got them there. Other places aren’t going to take off like they did without hitting some unknowable level of active users and so growth is slow (if there is any growth) which creates a Catch 22 situation. It is easy to see this as all doom and gloom but the Fediverse is growing and may well wander across the threshold in which a positive feedback loop of growth starts happening at which point it seems like a viable alternative to the masses and they leave in droves putting the old places into a death spiral.
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Not at all - most people just don’t give a fuck how the sausage is made as long as they get enough attention and have no incentive to leave. Elon Musk good live stream himself barbecuing puppies and enough people would be able to shrug it off because they don’t want to lose their few thousand followers and all the little dopamine rushes that Big Social has trained us to rely on.
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^This
You should post your experience on the squaredcircle community after you go
I definitely will. Should be a blast.
We haven’t had a chance to see it live yet, but someday we will.
I’m old and have been watching wrestling since I was little but this is my first live show, not sure why it has taken so long (although a local promotion opening up in the last year helped).
That’s dedication to the squared circle, I’m off to a suitably horror-themed show on the 30th October.
Solid 8/10 from me.
Samara Weaving has chosen her projects well - Mayhem is also great fun.
Welcome onboard - The Babysitter is great. Not such a slasher fan myself but I’m always up for zombies, comedy horror, cosmic horror, gore and a healthy dose of body horror. If you can mix some of those together then happy days.
Only following your lead. 👍
11·15 days agoA fucking spook cut-out trafficking mercenaries from Afghanistan to Ukraine
Or just another one of the oddballs, liars and sociopaths who are the focus of the article.
5·22 days agoI am always self conscious about my long winded replies because sometimes even I wouldn’t wanna read a post that long.
No need to be self-conscious - that’s a concise account of a complicated issue, which is going to go long. Long posts become an issue when they are rambling and unfocused.
Our server is the same one feddit.uk use (a hetzner auction server)
This is the route I’d recommend as you get superb specs for not much more than you’d be paying through the normal hosting, which, itself, is already very reasonable.
This has been our experience at feddit.uk. Well done to everyone over there. 👍
Worth also noting that:
- We are currently only using about 1/4 of the resources, so people could trim the cost further (although being over specced helps a lot when there are spikes in activity and it will mean we don’t have to upgrade any time soon).
- Our hosting costs are more that fully covered by around 20 people donating and that should scale with growth (although possibly not in a truly linear way). We also have a decent “warchest” which should see us through most temporary problems.
One reason we break the finances down is because we are a medium-sized instance and we want to demonstrate that it is perfectly possible to run one supported by donations.
If anyone has any questions they are welcome to message me or they can drop it into the monthly financial report (the new one will be next week).
I watch a lot of horror but that managed to unsettle more than anything in a while.
Your call. I’ll keep an eye out for progress.
In no particular order, genre shows include: