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I think we see a wider picture here, one we are not too bothered if people don't show up on a regular basis and post, people are not obsessed sharing every aspect of their lives and following people that do . When an instance goes down or we can't access it (it happens, sometimes planned other times unplanned) we just ssem to carry on with our lives till it is fixed.
So we are probably more resiliant and able to see that wider picture of what happens when IT goes mega wrong like with cloudstrike, I wonder how many Mastodon users carry cash just in case.
Not sure if we would be better off without tech, I think we see a picture in a world obsessed with AI and its so called potential, we here, pick up on how bad AI is in terms of what it puts out at times and question is AI as good as the propoganda claims.