GPU support is non-existent, unfortunately. It would truly be amazing if that changed because I agree that X410 is excellent. I think I had to add a creative snippet to my .bashrc to set the DISPLAY ip on WSL2, but it could not be easier to use other than that.
I volunteer a lot of my time to mod a couple very popular subreddits because I simply love Reddit over all other social media, and I agree completely with the above criticisms. Reddit is about communities first, and comments are where those communities are solidified. The posts are like a bunch of buildings, and the comments make them into a community. It’s where people sort out how they relate to one another and the posts.
I love a lot of things about the Apollo App (including the mod tool support!) but I don’t use it because it changes the reddit experience into something I don’t like as much.
This doesn’t hold at all. The blog era was a golden age of indie pop, expressly because there was no dominant platform. The blogs themselves hosted mp3 singles along with the journalism. The way we found the blogs was by each blog having a blogroll, a list of links to other blogs with associated tastes. The bloggers were almost always locally employed. They were talent buyers, musicians, indie labels and writers for local dailies. It led to a surge in music festivals that hosted gobs of smaller musicians as a result. A booming industry that was glorious for the enthusiasts like myself.
The major labels started buying the smaller labels as imprints and hiring the blog owners as representatives. In turn, the musicians that conformed and followed orders survived, and those that didn’t died. As the blogs dried up, Shazaam and Spotify filled the void of access to singles while social media filled the void of journalism, to the reluctance of the audience.
Likewise, the print journaism industry ran a similar course, with MTV and Clear Channel taking the place of local radio DJs. The issue seems to be the tendency to conform local markets to a broad average. For a corporation, it makes no sense to have local tastemakers. They always tend toward a cosmopolitan ideal but in the end we get nothing but a monoculture that alienates everyone.
It's hard to see how this is the future without experiencing it in some way personally.
Facebook Groups connected me with fans of a particular kind of fringe art about 4 years ago and made leaving Facebook really difficult. This might seem exceedingly anecdotal, and I get that, but you have to realize that, before Facebook, it would have been impossible for any of us to even know this interest existed; much less that there were others also into it. Nothing in the cultural canon quite sufficed, although some trends in music and literature had come close, none of them quite articulated the thing. Finding the thing was a necessary part of a certain stage of my life, and gave me a psychological grounding that something mainstream might never could have. I think admitting so actually devalues the spectacle in question, but I can't deny it. There was a value in the fact that this small group of people spoke this unique language. We became something like a tribe.
Attention economics are strange and only beginning to define our lives. Younger people will depend on fringe engagements to achieve a sense of self-identity that used to be a given. Life experience is going to take a new shape accordingly.
I think early evidence of this is in music scenes, which is haphazardly often the case with forms of sociocultural influence. No conventional wisdom can explain the proliferation of indie music and things like tape labels but these things are massive forces. They just genuinely don't care what you think. They have an audience and it's up to you to be a part.
Mastadon is strangely ahead of the curve and probably doing a poor job of meeting in the middle. I think it would benefit from shoving everyone into Mastadon.social at signup and letting them learn about instances from there. Finding a home is too difficult as it is. But, eventually, it does look like the future.