On the bright side, at least I have drama content to read. Maybe this thing can replace reddit... lol

Browsing for new content and communities is so much better here. Like, incredibly so. I don't know if it's just the lack of repost and karma bots or what but the quality of content is so much higher.

From what (admittedly little) I know about the fediverse I can't see this being a good decision for Bee's long term growth. I respect their stance but I simply think there isn't enough content for small groups to sustain yet. Reddit thrives on a newsfeed style experience, if there's nothing to scroll people won't stay. The only reason I'm here is because I can scroll everything in all, which is how I found this post, for example.

Rumble blew up when youtube started kicking covid disinfo off the platform. It's like parler but for videos.

This looks like a really large scale attack. Not just US Govt but also large corporations. And apparently also including NATO countries.

Senior government officials are racing to limit the impact of what's believed to be a global cyberattack affecting U.S. federal agencies and allies, including NATO member countries.

One cybersecurity expert characterized the breach as one of the largest theft and extortion events in recent history. Victims include Johns Hopkins University, the University of Georgia, the BBC and British Airways.

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/u-s-cyberattack-impacts-u-s-agencies-allies/

You know, I keep hearing this, but it's beehaw people coming here and starting arguments. If it's not a problem, then why are people getting annoyed? Beehaw is allowed to defederate if they really think so, but we don't have to pretend like it's a smart decision. And, at the end of the day, it only hurts them more than anyone else.

I agree, I think 2007scape makes the most sense... Just joined, glad to be here!

Long term growth is necessary to keep any online community alive. Not necessarily accelerating growth. But if a community has less members coming in than the ones who leave over time it will eventually die, no matter what platform it's on.

My first day here too! I'm still not quite sure how this works. hello from lemmy.world! Lol

One of my all time favourite Zappa pieces! Top 10 for sure.

I very much enjoy the rhythmic complexity in Zappa's work. It's fundamental to everything he does, his first instrument was drums. And one of his first albums was Ionisation by Varese, which definitely shows in the black page.

I'm a guitarist but I've always been a big fan of weird time signatures and the different feeling they can give a piece just by moving the notes to a slightly different place. Zappa dialed that art down to a delicate science. Black Page is one of the more extreme ones, very stop start, and I say that as someone who is quite comfortable with polymeters and odd sigs. I've heard it being compared to driving a car in heavy traffic. It took me a long time to get an ear for it. Now it's hard to find anything that hits quite the same!

I think this quote is a good summary of the way Frank treated time and rhythm. It was another tool, something to poke and twist and pull to see what he could squeeze out the other side.

"A composer's job involves the decoration of fragments of time. Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." - Zappa

I'm mainly just scrolling through the "all" section and using various tabs like active, new etc if it gets repetitive. That's how I found this thread.

Ahh gotcha I follow you now. thanks again.