Basically because a modern CPU is a distributed system, which is hard to get right.
digitalPhonix•2h ago
Mastodon really needs a better way to share/publish long form essays (or anything not tweet sized)
quotemstr•2h ago
What's wrong with making a Substack?
mrweasel•1h ago
It's the same as long Twitter posts, strung together by endless tweets a few years ago. People have a platform, they use that. If you don't make it a habit to post long articles, why bother with a new platform when the one you have will suffice?
Making a substack, or an account on Medium is "yet another thing" and many simply cannot be bothered and I don't blame them.
pixelpoet•1h ago
I wish humanity would get over this hyper fixation on short form everything, but I fear that ship has sailed.
PurpleRamen•31m ago
It should be rather simple to add an (optional?) article-view which roll's up a chain of comments from the same author, and presents it as a flat collected text. Each comment would a single paragraph, showing if there are comments from others, to this specific paragraph, which could be shown as an overlay, inline or on the side. No functionality would be lost, but it would improve readability significant. I don't understand why twitter and similar services, never made an attempt to improve their chaotic system. I mean on Twitter there are even bots doing this on external websites.
seba_dos1•20m ago
It has, the post length limit is an artificial limit imposed by specific instance's configuration and can just be lifted.
graemep•1h ago
The same problems as current software.
1. Its horribly complex
2. People are happy to buy buggy products.
dgan•58m ago
"People are abused into buying things they have no knowledge about, without consequences"
graemep•53m ago
Abused is too strong. I would say complexity means people do not understand the consequences.
dgan•59m ago
"... how they manifest and what can and can't be done about them. 1/31"
1/31. Sure buddy closes the tab
breve•38m ago
It's pushing forward the state of the art. It's how we get to the Mactini and Mactini Nano:
amelius•2h ago