In my experience discord literally feels like I’m in the room with someone. I use it constantly and it’s been great for me. Phones on the other hand are kinda garbage. The signal is consistently unreliable. Sometimes I literally get calls where one of us can’t hear the other. Sometimes several calls in a row. Occasionally calls just don’t even go through.

Gimme push to talk.

It depends on whether the server you’re on is boosted, also. But even a standard voice server is better quality than a phone. Phones may technically be able to play audio with a higher bitrate, but that’s limited by both cell service and speaker quality.

More reliable too, honestly. Plus the video streaming is indispensable. Honestly, discord voice chat is a big part of the reason I haven’t made a serious attempt to use Matrix for much if anything. The lack of push to talk is a deal breaker. Also like, none of my friends are there.

I would never engage in marketing… except for my own indie projects.

Hitler, he only had one ball

Goring, had two but very small

Himmler had something sim’lar

And poor old Goebbels had no balls at all

I dunno. I can’t see more than two of those names in succession without this popping into my head.

Trump is aging like a Nazi opening the Ark of the Covenant.

How does the math work for that?

Yeah, I learned that the bot farms will never quit.

The covert Trumpism supporters have been busy lately. Every thread about anyone pushing back, they’re out here dragging the energy down. Every time someone in authority starts pointing toward a constitutional crisis, they’re here to chime in with ‘the constitution is already dead’. Every time a judge makes a ruling against the Trump administration they’re happy to trot out ‘it means nothing’. Every time a Democrat actually pushes against this administration they’re here to say ‘you’re doing nothing’.

Incredibly suspect.

Being relatively a relatively unknown outlet that forces extra steps on anyone who wants to read their articles probably sets the bar pretty low. Especially when a lot of people will just share archive links.

Depending on what it is you’re trying to make, it can actually be helpful as one of many components to help get your feet wet. The same way modding games can be a path to learning a lot by fiddling with something that’s complete, getting suggestions from an LLM that’s been trained on a bunch of relevant tutorials can give you enough context to get started. It will definitely hallucinate, and figuring out when it’s full of shit is part of the exercise.

It’s like mid-way between rote following tutorials, modding, and asking for help in support channels. It isn’t as rigid as the available tutorials, and though it’s prone to hallucination and not as knowledgeable as support channel regulars, it’s also a lot more patient in many cases and doesn’t have its own life that it needs to go live.

Decent learning tool if you’re ready to check what it’s doing step by step, look for inefficiencies and mistakes, and not blindly believe everything it says. Just copying and pasting while learning nothing and assuming it’ll work, though? That’s not going to go well at all.

I honestly think the internet is a major component of the problem. People online are not good ambassadors of any perspective, and a lot of them are literally working in bot farms with the express purpose of making people stupider and more divided. Like, imagine if your only exposure to leftist thinking was some of the vote-spoiling, feckless, whiny, disingenuous garbage that was polluting Lemmy so heavily leading up to the election. How much of the internet is just that?

In the same way that internet brain-rot has caused the right to devolve into ever-escalating authoritarian bootlickery and snowballing racist, queerphobic, misogynistic bigotry, it’s also influenced portions of the left away from solidarity and practical change into useless infighting, finger-wagging, and ideological self-congratulation. In an environment where even a lot of genuine posters who haven’t been explicitly hired to destroy society seem to favor dunking on people over actually getting anything done, it’s not really surprising to see the advancement of progressive ideologies backsliding even while many of the ideas they promote become more popularized.

We need better tactics. Maybe most importantly, we need to figure out a way to combat this divisiveness for hire that’s infecting every corner of the internet by some other means than just bickering with trolls.

Maple-washing sounds delicious.

Heyyy, it’s chanology style anonymous. Nice.

I’m pretty sure people thought Trump would be good at economics literally just because of the Apprentice. Manny more people in the US watch reality TV than have any real understanding of politics. Look at all the Trump voters who literally seemed to have no idea he would do any of the things he very loudly said he was going to do. They just remember him being the boss guy who was supposedly good at business from that one show they watched about business.

Again, this doesn’t reduce the total number of Tesla owners. What’s the point?

Like, yeah, good effort. Neat. But what is the actual impact of one person selling a Tesla to another person? The same number of people end up driving Teslas.

Doesn’t getting people to sell their Tesla accomplish literally nothing? It doesn’t reduce the number of Tesla drivers unless someone is buying them just to scrap them.

I feel like there are better flyers people could be spending their time distributing

In what world does it take two people to “make” a piece of malformed AI schlock?

So he’s going to do the same thing he did to his fanboys to the government? Oh good. Can we impeach this guy yet?