However, the upside is that there are no bots, dark patterns, or manipulated feeds.
There’s a huge amount of incoming spam, much of it, I suspect posted by bots. I’ve also seen account posting ‘news’ from sites that are clearly AI generated
To be honest, it feels much more likely to see posts on the Fediverse with many upvotes, few or no comments
Yeh. I’m pretty comfortable with this broad mix.
Absolutely. Unless they’re actually evil. Which I’m sure they aren’t. But they could be.
You’re hiding your traffic route from your mobile operator and giving it instead to your vpn company who swear they are honest
The technology is magnifying the flaws in capitalism
Just a quick reminder that Twitter was banning 10s of thousands of accounts of extremists that breached its terms of service, including a certain ex president of the US. It was imperfect, but ‘running rampant’ is a stretch
Were Nazis allowed to deliberately ‘run rampant’ on Twitter pre-Elon? That’s a hot take.
Musk’s buying Twitter had nothing to do with it being ‘monetised’ as far as I see. Musk just offered such a stupidly large amount that the board had to say ‘OK, sure.’
Thanks. I hadn’t really thought of creating prompts like that but that’s a nifty idea
“You will present multiple views on any subject… here is a list of subjects on which you hold fixed views”.
I just don’t understand how the author of this prompt continues to function
Quite a good demonstration of the limitations of deep-fake AI. You just know after a minute or two that this. isn’t Ryan Gosling, or if it is - that he is being held hostage
If you’re Apple users Music isn’t too shabby
You’re right - Apple Music is cool
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Fedi Garden to users: “You may need to find an alternative to us”
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This is from 2020. You absolutely can use Little Snitch or a similar firewall to block this traffic.
https://eclecticlight.co/2021/02/23/how-to-run-apps-in-private/
Or send, you know - a text message
I wonder how many manufacturers can currently manage that.