yeah that’s grim

yeah pretty much, the society here drills into you that owning more stuff is how you show you’re successful

it’s kind of crazy how obsessed people can be with status

I love how these threads always make you fash come out of the woodwork.

lol there is that demographic for sure

It’s a completely different dynamic from commercial services. It needs enough users to continue developing the software, to operate servers, and to create content on the platform. There is more than enough users on the platform to ensure that it can operate indefinitely at this point. Meanwhile, most people on Mastodon, just as the case is with Lemmy, are on it because they want an open source platform. So, they’re not going to jump on another proprietary garbage platform BlueSky or W. And if a better open source platform comes along that’s a win for everyone.

And I’d argue that chasing growth for the sake of growth can itself be harmful. When you have a slow trickle of new users then they adapt to the existing culture of the platform. But if you have a huge influx of people all at once they can erase the existing communities in the process.

That’s the big question, cause I doubt there’s going to be huge demand for phones that cost a couple of grand in this economy. The fact that Apple’s been trying to secure RAM deals in China suggests they realize they need to keep prices down. We’ll have to see how it works out for them.

Mastodon is fine, it’ll outlive every commercial social media platform because it doesn’t need a funding runway or to show profit to shareholders.

I do think they kind of lucked into it by focusing on SoC and unified memory before LLMs got big, and now they are really well positioned for running local models like Qwen.

They seem to have had the foresight to realize that this tech will quickly move to edge devices.

oh yeah for sure

China is absolutely living in the future by every measure you can think of. Robots are common place, there’s high speed rail everywhere, energy production is rapidly shifting to renewables and nuclear. Most vehicles are now electric. These are all the things we were promised that we’d see in the world of tomorrow, and that’s where China is at.

lmfao imagine being over the age of 12 and using authoritarian unironically, some real intellectual titans on this site 🤣

and here’s something for you to mald over

• https://sccei.fsi.stanford.edu/china-briefs/reverse-brain-drain-exploring-trends-among-chinese-scientists-us
• https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/is-the-us-witnessing-the-start-of-a-brain-drain-of-chemists-to-china/4023959.article
• https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/science/nobel-winning-us-chemist-will-move-to-china-to-lead-ai-institute.htmlunlocked_article_code=1.wlA.-_eU.hvAo1uhEkhDR&smid=nytcore-ios-share
• https://e.vnexpress.net/news/tech/personalities/7-prominent-scientists-and-experts-who-left-us-uk-for-china-in-2026-5096244.html
• https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3359883/10-scientists-and-experts-who-have-left-us-and-uk-china-so-far-2026

I’m also looking forward to more American top scientists moving to China as their funding gets cut and they can’t find new students.

fun fact, you can literally use meme templates any way you like

Most modern web breaks without Js though.

sure kiddo https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/russias-t14-turret-revolutionary-improvement

I did post it in programmer humor, figured that would be a bit of a give away :)

Wow, thank you so much for taking your valuable time from huffing gas to write all that.

I’m really impressed you can tell what kind of tank it is under the plating.