Over on another channel, a teacher is filmed butting in as a boy records himself asking a passing girl for her number. The teacher is completely unaware that the boy is recording the encounter for content — and instead interrupts the boy’s “approach,” as pickup artists call it, to shake his hand and congratulate him on his “confidence.”

It's largely a matter of lateral thinking and metacognition Like tripping over a bucket isn't going to make you shout eureka! But you're thinking on the problem, and you remember seeing a seller carefully packing his things up for the day into neatly sorted boxes (Or sometimes you do trip over a bucket, which reminds you of the seller) You take the root concept, sorting things using a number of containers, and then you deconstruct and reconstruct pieces of the pattern to reapply aspects of it to your problem

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.

Ooooh, cooool, thanks!

I've yet to see them fire a shot. Americans are too busy exhausting their multi-trillion dollar military budget playing wack-a-mole with Iranian drone operators