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Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, has started Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency project that aims to scan billions of human irises.

In a lemmy thread a few weeks ago I discussed having a unique identify on the internet. Almost everyone was against it. It looks like Sam didn't get the message.

The article may be behind a paywall if you've been reading the NYT lately.

On the Magazines tab you can filter by subscriptions. It then shows all the posts to the subscribed magazines. Is it possible just to see the name of the Magazine to which I'm subscribed?

I know you can see the subscription status on the unfiltered initial page. Given there are currently 105 pages, I'd have to page through all of them to find my subscriptions.

I read an article in the New York Times about Elon Musk wanting to make X, formally known as Twitter, into an everything app. The article also mentions other attempts. Would that be the last thing we would want?

I can see why Elon would want it: total domination of the app market and massive profits. While a user might find it convenient, it would be a total lock in to one app that would make it difficult to move to other apps. If the app went under, a likelihood for X under Elon's control, the user becomes completely disconnected. The app would also be the dream target of hackers trying to steal all you data.

It's not that hard to use multiple apps. I'm sure most of us have dozens of them. I have high security on my financial apps and not so much on my social apps. I don't want to do two step verification to get back into kbin every time I get logged out. Specialize apps for specific purposes makes a lot more sense to me.

How does the People tab work? Are all members automatically people or are there steps to becoming one? Just curious, I'm sure I actually want to be a person.

I asked once before before I knew the difference between a post and a thread and was wondering why I never saw my post in the Magazine.

The Future of the Threadaverse. Is a Lot More Growth a Good Thing?

I’m a recent refugee from Reddit and a very long time social network user. When the Apollo app announced its demise, I joined kbin.social and beehaw.org and love these new networks. The discussions seems much more reasoned and friendly. I do miss some of the more esoteric groups such as music theory and jazz. I’m sure they’ll be created as the threadiverse (kbin and lemmy) continue to grow. In this case, growth will be good. Is there, however, a point where these new networks get too big?

Imagine 56 million daily users (the current figure for Reddit) using the threadiverse platforms. If they were divided evenly into groups of 10,000, that would be 5,600 instances. Surely, such growth would take years, unless Huffman pulls another catastrophic move such as making you pay to be member and having to view ads as well. Even if he did, I doubt Reddit would completely go away. It would join myspace and AOL in the backwaters of the Internet.

Back to my point. Let’s say there are 20 million daily users. Magazines on kbin and communities on lemmy would have 100’s of thousands or even more that a million subscribers. The subreddit r/worldnews has 32 million subscribers. There could also be 100’s of thousands of magazines/communities. Reddit has 2.8 million subreddits. I know communities are tightly limited on beehaw.org, only being added when there is sufficient interest and support for them. On kbin, it appears any member can create a magazine. I could be wrong. Lemme.ee also allows members to create communities without restriction as far as I can tell.

Assuming there were enough instances to support such a volume of users, would that be a good thing or would discussions turn into flame wars, vitriol, and personal attacks? Even if such things were kept under control would threads become full of pointless or uninformative comments that kept you from reading quality posts. I don’t know one way or the other although I suspect, at some point there would be such a thing as too big. Most likely, it will take years for the threadiverse to grow so there’s plenty of time to plan and implement mechanisms to handle it.

#RedditMigration

Any surge in kbin or lemmy signups?
I'd check myself, but don't know there to look. We might not see much change until Tuesday when the long weekend is over.

#RedditMigration

How does people tab work?
Does one automatically become a person as a function of registering with kbin.social or is something you have to do manually? I didn't an option for creating a person so is it limited in some way? I'm mainly just curious, not sure I want to be a person 😉

#kbinMeta