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  • Maybe, but it is equally possible that people will be forced to learn that their unwillingness to care about this stuff because it is “wayyyy too complicated” is existentially not sustainable…

    People picking Bluesky over Mastodon when Mastodon already existed and was easily functional enough for people to choose as an alternative is a perfect example of what you are saying but also… Bluesky is a vaporwave brand that will eventually strangle itself into obscurity in the pursuit of monetization and Mastodon will keep chugging along… so people will have many many chances to learn why ActivityPub and the Fediverse are the future, and those learning opportunities will only start coming quicker and quicker.


  • I agree with this except there is no way to use AI that doesn’t push a design towards being samey junk, less AI is better but this is not as much a tool with a right way and a wrong way to use it (it is that to some extent of course) and more primarily a lie being sold to people that spits out things people then believe they or the AI made when it is simply an older human idea that was stolen and thrown into a woodchipper without any consideration, material support or recognition of the human who provided the training data that was crucial.

    If you want to file off the serial numbers of other human ideas and mutilate them in an LLM type device fine but don’t claim you or the AI are actually contributing anything real.




  • It has everything to do with the Fediverse as this is precisely the kind of problem the Fediverse was designed to minimize and grapple with, so how that problem is evolving in the corporate social media world is directly relevant to the Fediverse even though it is not part of it, the failure of corporate social media to grapple with these problems elucidates why and how we are trying to solve those problems on the Fediverse best in some ways.

    For example we can compare the problematic behavior of Lemmy.World mods on the politics and world news communities to the problematic behavior of Reddit in this case and see a clear resonance that makes it easier to address the forms of these problems on the Fediverse more confidently.




  • poVoq here. I am starting to think I am cursed, because everything works fine (or is at least fixable with a remote server restart) until the second I go on a longer business trip and can’t easily access the hardware.

    Have you tried leaving for a couple hours and then coming back and giving the server a couple of bytes of a treat? Ease the server into you leaving with a bit of training.