#riseandfall — Public Fediverse posts

The Strange, Forgotten RTS That Let You Fight in Third Person | Zade

https://quokk.au/c/rts/p/1013022/the-strange-forgotten-rts-that-let-you-fight-in-third-person-zade

The rise and fall of snake oil

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/rise-and-fall-snake-oil

#HackerNews #riseandfall #snakeoil #history #deception #healthmyths

The Rise and Fall of ExpressVPN

https://apertatube.net/w/q539Ma1FyXrUm8QPfARnaX

‘Rise And Fall’ Becomes Amazon MX Player’s Biggest Ever Show
#News #Ratings #RiseandFall

https://deadline.com/2025/11/rise-and-fall-amazon-mx-player-biggest-show-1236605203/

The rise and fall of the powered wig

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/head-tilting-history/rise-and-fall-powdered-wig

#HackerNews #riseandfall #poweredwig #history #fashion #trends #culturalheritage

‘Rise And Fall India’ Lands Big For Amazon MX Player, Relegating ‘Millionaire’, ‘Wednesday’ & ‘Great Indian Kapil Show’
#News #All3Media #BanijayIndia #MXPlayer #RiseandFall

https://deadline.com/2025/09/rise-fall-india-ratings-amazon-mx-player-1236552169/

The Rise and Fall of the British Detective Novel (2010)

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/rise-and-fall-british-detective-novel

#HackerNews #BritishDetectiveNovels #RiseAndFall #LiteratureHistory #CrimeFiction #BookAnalysis

Inside the Indian Adaptation of Reality Hit ‘Rise and Fall’: ‘It’s a Pure Social Experiment About Power and Status’
#Variety #Asia #Global #News #AmazonMXPlayer #BanijayAsia #RiseAndFall #SonyEntertainmentTelevision

https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/inside-india-rise-and-fall-social-experiment-power-status-1236515928/

@samuelpepys

"On all hands, by God's blessing, I find myself a very rising man."

Oh, Sam, you are a poet.

I remember feeling like you do today, Sam, at one or two points earlier in my life. It's great to feel on top of the world, isn't it. I don't feel like that any more and I don't really need to feel like it any more. Age does that to you. But I rather treasure the memory of those past moments, where a young Roamer felt "a very rising man". Bless you, Sam.

#Pepys #RiseAndFall #humility

A quotation from Byron

There is the moral of all human tales;
   ‘Tis but the same rehearsal of the past,
   First Freedom, and then Glory — when that fails,
   Wealth — Vice — Corruption, — Barbarism at last.

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto 4, st. 108 (1818)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/byron/76512/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #byron #corruption #cycle #decadence #history #riseandfall #decline #declineandfall

my features published in #CurrentBiology this year, issue 19: #Whales came to dominate the oceans in only 50 million years. Humans nearly wiped them out within a century. The story of their #RiseAndFall: https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/10/a-whale-of-tale.html #science #ecology #evolution #MarineBiology #Cetaceans

Channel 4’s ‘Rise And Fall’ From ‘The Traitors’ Producer Studio Lambert Canceled After One Season Following Months Of Speculation
#CancellationsandRenewals #News #Cancelations #Channel4 #RiseandFall #StudioLambert #TheTraitors

https://deadline.com/2024/01/channel-4-rise-and-fall-the-traitors-scrapped-studio-lambert-1235807128/

* Bullying is not assertiveness
* Focusing only on money is not providing value
* Making decisions based on grudges lifts no-one.

Matt was the only real leader on #riseandfall

I’m writing my own ending where he wins and everyone else is encased in a concrete sarcophagus.

@scottspeaking There's a growing set of literature, though generally you could look at the rise and fall of movements, social groups, religious movements (look up the Second Great Awakening and Burned Over Districts sometime), etc.

My basic take is that there are two forces at play: (1) network effects though not the n^2 of Metcalfe's Law but some diminishing-return function (Odlyzko and Tilly suggest log(n): https://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/metcalfe.pdf) and (2) frictional costs which are more-or-less constant per node instance (though which can be modified across the network as a whole through various network-hygiene measures).

So, if you've got diminishing returns and constant costs, at some point adding another node no longer breaks even.

The pathological death spiral occurs when high value nodes start defecting from the network. This is the Yogi Berra effect: "Nobody (who's anybody) goes there anymore, it's too crowded (with everybody who's nobody)".

Danah Boyd has some great early work looking at the dynamic between Facebook (upstart) and MySpace (incumbent) in the mid/late aughts: http://www.danah.org/papers/talks/ICA2009.html

That's related to the Nazi At the Bar problem as described by @imaragesparkle at Birdsite: https://old.reddit.com/r/TalesFromYourServer/comments/hsiisw/kicking_a_nazi_out_as_soon_as_they_walk_in/. There are some founding / infiltrating cohorts who are so toxic that they lead to the flight of others. See generally Brain Drain and recognise that this can work in multiple directions for multiple groups, e.g., European Jews fleeing to the US whilst American Blacks fled to Europe. Same fundamental reason, but different dynamics affecting different groups. (This is also a #GreshamsLaw phenomenon, which is another trope of mine.)

I've written my own thoughts on why Usenet died, which Fedizens might want to consider. Not all the factors apply, though some do, upshot: it simply became too high-risk (and low-reward) to host Usenet: https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/3c3xyu/why_usenet_died/

#Usenet #MetcalfesLaw #OdlyzkoTilly #AndrewOdlyzko #SocialNetworks #RiseAndFall #DanahBoyd