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Isn’t community the single biggest advantage of Bloomberg Terminal? And no one is focusing on that, but on new fancy charts. That’s probably why Bloomberg doesn’t have real competition.

As a daily IRC user I can say this: IRC never was reliable. Constant attacks, splits, nick squatting or other crap ware pain in the ass. That’s why it never was adopted as a mainstream communication platform, and at its peak it had maybe 400k+ users. Now most of that are bots and stale sessions.

> Pay for what? It's not about making money.

For servers that run Mastodon.

> But that sort of total exodus would mean a lot of additional people contributing ideas and code to the Fediverse, not just servers, but by making it easier to run your own instance.

Most users aren’t interested in contributing anything to the platform. Social media platforms popularity lays in simplicity. No one wants to run anything, just use service without any hassle.

> there are upwards of a million people using it right now.

Compare that to 200m+ users of Twitter sending 500m+ messages daily. I bet Mastdon can handle this without a sweat.

And who will pay for that openness and decentralization? Let’s hypothetically say that Twitter is closed, millions of users discover Mastodon and move. Mastodon instances will be down in matter of seconds. How do you approach this? By volunteers adding more instances(that they can close anytime)? This will not change anything. Everything cost money and living in an “free” world bubble isn’t helping in any project adoption.

So I do not see any advantage in federated system. It’s cool as technology and all, but completely unprepared for huge traffic or real life scenarios.

PS. Please do not say anything about “anyone can start his own instance”. No, average Twitter/Facebook consumer can’t start his own instance.

There’s nothing there that would tell how it compares to Figma.

For the last 12 years I did everything to avoid Adobe at any cost (I used it from version 5). Creative Cloud was my biggest nightmare and single point of every crash of macOS and Windows that I had.

It’s a very sad day for designers.

I earned a ban for life on Facebook. A few years ago, I made an account with just my first name and two letters of last. Less than 24 hours later, I was banned, and they requested my ID. So I sent it to them. I was shocked when they got back to me with information that my last name isn’t the same as on the account, and they can’t verify it.

Now, if I want to register a new account with a new e-mail and phone number, I also need to show my ID and get banned immediately.

In 2012 my PayPal account was deleted after one of my clients reverted payment after getting source material. After contacting PayPal and telling them that I would go to court with that. After just seconds, I was signed out of an account, and it was gone. Nothing was associated with my e-mail address... :-)

In the end, most likely every company does something like that. Maybe not on such a scale, but...

There’s no marketplace there, so you still need to find your clients. It’s the most misleading part of their website.

They put everywhere “we do not track or share data with third-parties” maybe that’s the key difference with other ad networks? It’s not like they follow you around over the web which FB or Google does.

I actually don’t even see those ads, as they are only in few apps and App Store.

I use my system setup script: https://github.com/pcho/binfiles/blob/master/bt. It helps me a lot with setting up new VPS when I need or with daily tasks. While using macOS, I also had this as helpers: https://github.com/pcho/binfiles/blob/master/.archive/setup-..., to set up homebrew. And, https://github.com/pcho/binfiles/blob/master/.archive/setup-..., for a bunch of options as many of build from source works fine in both systems. In .archive folder there’s a lot of other scripts that I used, but tried to incorporate them in bootstrap script.

It also uses my https://github.com/pcho/dotfiles, https://github.com/pcho/vimfiles and https://github.com/pcho/zshfiles

Killed? I think it's alive and well. The Internet is full of gossip and reports that Craiglist's revenue is around $1.3+ billion with a 50+ members team. It's almost the same that OLX Groups generate with a few thousand employees.

Why it's unprofessional? Many people/companies feel the same way. For example, Gergely Orosz https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/job-board-testimonials/ (go to Exceptions). Maintaining a solid stance on matters you don't like isn't unprofessional. It's on the contrary.

For anyone using Figurative or browser version of Figma - it doesn’t work in iPad OS 16 Safari version. :(

When using Blink Shell you can open local files too and connect to vps or use other providers like GitHub Codespaces.

There’s nothing reductive in my comment. I didn’t mention the quality of execution, yet you have to build something to learn from it, even if it’s a bad idea. Having just ideas bring nothing to the table, no matter how good they are. Here we come to another interesting fact: companies will pivot many times after building the initial idea.

That’s the whole process of building them.

All of your ideas already exists. It’s not about having ideas or sharing them, because there’s thousands of people who have the same thought. What actually makes a difference is building them.

Everyone can make a great-looking website, and not everyone can make it useful to end-users or goals. Worth remembering that websites are “living” organisms that evolve with your users, and you need to quickly adapt to any patterns that users throw at it.

Only iPad Pro 12.9, 2020 model.

Ratio of active vs created accounts is very low, it feels like most of them ware abandon by users after the initial boom. That one that’s stands out is Mastodon which isn’t a surprise.

For whole fediverse to succeed it will have to jump out from niche groups and fight for ordinary users that are used to Facebook or Twitter. Which will not happen until some big brands/interesting people start to use them as PR/commentary tools. And, yes, that’s the single point of all social networks, and not connecting with friends.

None of those points matter as this is not how it works, and you have few seconds to convince someone who visits your website without second chance as you have on HN. Potential clients will bounce of your website as I did without even question anything.

EDIT: To help out a bit check this resources: - https://greatlandingpagecopy.com/ - https://www.nickkolenda.com/free-guides/ - https://marketingexamples.com/

Website design at this point doesn’t matter that much, yet words are important. Try incorporating copywriting changes and show actual product. That will help more than writing PR blog posts and post them over the internet. :)

Good luck!

All your comments in that thread are negative. I just see an angry and hostile person who’s rocking a boat on a sea of conspiracy.

As Dang said in comment you linked: “That's no fun and does nothing for the community.”.

I mean: It looks like there’s no product behind that, all blog posts are just about laying out a vision with stock photos, and illustrations that have zero meaning. This + design of the website looks unprofessional and I’m not convinced to enter my email address to see what could happen in the future.

If you choose this approach at least try showing actual footage of it like you’re showing on your Twitter account. I know they are static designs so at least change example.com to something that looks like a live one used by others.

It doesn’t have to be perfect yet by being authentic you’ll have way more success. :)

I just see stock photos and PR nightmare. What’s the catch?

Most if not all email providers do that when they get phishing or spam alert (every user can send those) to check out if that message is actually a threat. Maybe the best option for you is to setup your own email server which is fairly simple this days.

Blink Shell (which is free) but requires VPS to work with.

iSH is great and has a lot of features, but the only problem I have with it is slowness and lagging.

I’m probably from alternative universe, but I just managed to work and play with Doom Emacs on my iPad.

It’s not Code-Server, but actual VSCode with additional fixes for mobile backed in inside Blink itself. Which is extremely awesome, having this in mind you can connect to variety of services to start coding on the fly(Codespaces, Gitpod, etc.) without thinking about setting up VPS.

Here’s more on that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCbhbCWA_G4