I don’t have anywhere near your experience, but the key points (customizable, no bloat, good wiki) all scream Arch, as you predicted 🙂

I think we agree on the limited capability of (what is currently passed off as) “artificial intelligence”, yes.

VC = venture capitalism.

That’s a feature, not a bug. Celebrity culture needs to get in the sea.

According to that research mentioned in the article, the answer is yes. The big caveats are

• that you need to get conspiracy theorists to sit down and do the treatment. With their general level of paranoia around a) tech, b) science, and c) manipulation, that not likely to happen.
• you need a level of “AI” that isn’t going to start hallucinating and instead enforce the subjects’ conspiracy beliefs. Despite techbros’ hype of the technology, I’m not convinced we’re anywhere close.

The Great Sellout to Meta.

Is this Great Sellout in the room with us right now? Because Meta did implement an open protocol into Threads, but it has been widely blocked by other ActivityPub instances. That is not a “sellout”.

Sounds like your principles will only lead you off social media, perhaps the internet entirely?

Let’s take that etymology one step further: “fan” comes from “fanatic”, so a stan is a stalker fanatic. Which somehow has become a positive term in some circles.

Need to read up on smoke signals and/or carrier pigeons 🙂

Welp, there goes the [online] neighbourhood! It was nice knowing you all.

Was my first impulse too, but looking at their app selection now, it seems kind of … inutile? Unsexy? Old?

I didn’t want to pay for their search engine before, and this garbage sure as hell isn’t going to change my mind.

as we’ve seen, AI tools are trained on garbage

I would like this to be the takeaway lesson that humans are better at history. However, loads of accepted history is also trained on garbage.

I’m not going to pretend I grasp the technological details of either Weird or the Leaf protocol, but the basic concept of superpowering the personal website as identity provider is very attractive — and the passion of your writing is infectious 🙂 I hope to someday reach a lightbulb moment with your work and just implement it on my own site.

i thought nostr was just where all the trolls are going because they can truly be anonymous shitheads.

Also because blockchain, I believe? It’s basically a cryptobro grapevine.

Gotcha! Thanks for the ELI5 🙂

local-first

web app

I’m confused, which is it?

The quality about the fediverse that I appreciate the most is the fact that nobody on any of its platforms raised an eyebrow at having a rainbow-coloured pentagram for a logo, until the first Twitter exodus when some newcomer primed for spotting the mildest of outrage-by-proxy gasped, “Have you seen this? Somebody might get upset!”

Meanwhile, the pentagram has been warding off hyperbolic fundamentalists since 2018. The fediverse is much chiller without them. 🤘

When there are only two options om the ballot and one is set to steer your country into fascism and a recall of human rights — there is no comparison. You vote for the other one.

Also, dick measuring.