While this is very funny, and definitely representative of a sort of ignorance/arrogance commonly found in ideologues - I recently learned that most people talking about the effect have, in fact, been Dunning-Krugering themselves.

Insightful video on the topic.

What most people expect the effect to look like:

What the actual results were:

Nice! It would be lying to say it’s close to on par with YouTube - but there definitely is some good content on there by now. And it has YT beat on authenticity and humanity, for sure. Much less baiting, algorithm-weirdness and fame-chasing (sadly, still non-zero, but so much better in those regards).

As a small PSA to anyone reading this: You can also follow creators on PT with any type of Fediverse account, that can follow users (many have most of their followers on Mastodon).

Thank you! Seems to be working now!

I was pretty sure I had already tried that, but I probably had something else not configured directly when I did, so I probably hadn’t tried it yet with the proper combination of values in addition to that! (I am glad I haven’t managed to break it somewhere else while trying stuff)

What’s an animal, though it’s barely in motion?

Yeah, his videos and articles are usually insightful - but his thumbnails are often weirdly bad. In this case, I wonder if he thought the original article and his own stance towards it were somehow mor commonly known with people, or if it was an unfortunate attempt at clickbait.

Of course, he isn’t likely - he loved it, when it was uncertainty and confusion for Ukraine, because what he wants out of a deal is a way to position Russia to eventually still eliminate an independent Ukraine altogether. Now that it’s flip-flopping again, and the uncertainty produced by the administration in the US isn’t completely in his favour any more, there’s no reason for them to entertain it at all.

No I haven’t, great idea!

Thanks! There’s a treasure trove of demos to trickle as content in the coming days, that should last for months - but I am hoping that maybe even some people active in the scene able to add some discussions, guides, explanations, etc. may join eventually.

!dontyouknowwhoiam@lemmy.world