I am trying it out, got a subscription a couple of weeks ago. I went to unlimited searches right away since on a work day I heavily rely on search engines.
To be honest, I have nothing to say about it, which feels like a good thing considering that lately I have been complaining a lot about Google.
Never tried not-stimulants but I have read some studies that suggests that a combination works best for some people.
Out of curiosity, what side effects are you experiencing with stimulants?
Jack Dorsey, good or bad?
(bonus points if you get the community reference)
I have been thinking about this for quite some time, feel free to add me on matrix (link in bio) if you are interested to collaborate/discuss.
It's interesting to consider a few potential use-cases, as you can see below the technical requirements for each use-case can be vastly different.
Notice, I am assuming that accounts are connected, aka if someone creates a post, that post can reach users of other instances. See the "Connecting Instances" section below.
Let's say Alice wants to organize a trivia night at the coffee shop she works at. After all the preparations, Alice needs to invite people, so she makes a post with the location, the date, and the announcement of the event.
People following Alice's (or the coffee shop's) account, will be notified of the event and choose to either attend or not. Some may even "boost" the event, so it's reaches more people.
Discovery is not optimal. It's possible, people that live nearby the coffee shop, and would have otherwise attended the event, weren't following the account, as a result weren't notified and missed the event.
Instead, if a location based feed was available, it would have allowed people to find Alice's post and attend the event. The UX for such a feed can be complex, but the backend requirements are pretty straightforward, we need to filter (and/or sort) using the location, date and tags of an event.
All in all, the volume of data is small (not a lot of events happen at the same time and the same area), and the application is not time-critical (if a post takes several of minutes to reach other users it's not an issue as the event is posted days in advance).
Let's say a group wants to organize a protest march, they know that the police tends to get violent on such occasions, so they need to monitor the police's activity and alert the people accordingly.
So, they create a system where some people are responsible for monitoring the area and regularly upload posts with the exact location of the police. This allows the group to create a map that shows the locations of police blocks and adjust their route accordingly.
While the example is terrible, I believe the use-case is clear. A lot of people, need to monitor "something" that is happening "right now".
Again, probably most of the complexity lies on the UX design, but a few backend requirements are added:
Keep in mind that (2) and (3) do not mean that a decentralized platform would be better suited.
Let's say, during the spring, a population of ducks passes through the city. Tourists and locals alike want to watch the ducks, so they start recording sightings.
This information not only allows users that are nearby to rush to watch the ducks when there is a sighting, but also can be used to create a heatmap of the most probable locations to find ducks for a given time of day.
Technical requirements:
trigger warning
I had SA incidents in mind when writing the above example, but I choose a more light-hearted example to avoid needlessly triggering people.
The use-case is pretty much the same. The locations are places to avoid for safety reasons, and people rushing to the scene are either searching for the perp or helping/protecting the victim.
Let's say Bob learns an interesting trivia about the statue on the town square. He creates a post about the trivia and stamps it with the location of the statue.
Here, time is irrelevant to the post, people are going to be interested in Bob's trivia years down the line. However, people need to be able to discover Bob's trivia, and a map is probably the best tool for the job.
Technical requirements:
Utilising this, we could create a list of Habitat instances that are relevant to a user’s current location, and then query only those instances.
I don't think this would work, habbitat.world would still have users around the globe, as a result it would be queried every time someone refreshes their feed. You may make a case that there shouldn't be such an instance, but keep in mind (a) pretty much every Fediverse platform has a few huge instances, and (b) that would exclude users located in places without a local instance (or local instances with unethical admins/mods).
I believe the existing follow-based federation mechanisms would provide a better solution. Keep in mind that fedizens don't want to see "everything" within their feeds, but a curated list of posts/events based on their choices and/or the choices of people with similar background (same instance).
What is a just a minute protest? asking for a friend
It's astonishing how quickly the golden age of information is turning to the dark age of misinformation.
It has been a rough journey for her, lots of conflicting diagnosis and treatments. It's really hard to get reliable medical advice for that.
Right now she is using aerolin, mostly because it kinda helps and it's cheap. But, we are looking for a doctor we can trust.
Thanks for your concern and kind words ❤️
Insomnia sucks, I think I have a longer circadian rhythm (many people with ADHD do) which sucks when you try to maintain a routine. But, having severe insomnia, I cannot imagine what you are going through...
I liked the colour book idea, I will give it a try, I always thought these are for children but fuck standards, maybe it works for me too. 🙏
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But you don’t go to a tragedy for closure. There comes another episode, and another, and another, more than anyone can bear. A few months after my journey, enormous swaths of the Evros region were consumed by wildfires, the largest such outbreak in recent European history. In August, 18 people, adults as well as children, were found burned to death in a forest near the village of Avantas, just a few miles north of Alexandroupolis. Blackened beyond recognition, some of them were discovered hugging each other. They were presumed to have recently crossed the border and to have sought protection under the trees.
That aged well... The same week a big part of the country (Thessaly) was flooded with many more dead and thousands losing their homes and source of income (agriculture).
Climate change is real and as long as governments choose to ignore it, increasingly more people are going to die.
A person born in a country that spends anti-flood funds for road repairs. A person born in a country that defunds the forestry service in order to buy military equipment. A person born in a country where you may lose your life over a boat fare.
Not really trying to make a change, I am just pissed.
To be honest, I never really had anything close to a scare. Children could be walking around, and thankfully drunk driving is not that common here.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deng_Xiaoping
PS Not OP, I just searched "Deng political leader" and found the above wikipedia article, the age matches so I think this is the person OP is referring to, but I may be wrong.