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Think of all the skills you could learn! Basically any task that takes less than 60 seconds to complete!

I’m actually okay with semi-centralized. Most people need that to trust a platform, but it still gives you the option to self host if you really care.

10/1 to celebrate the 101 key keyboard apparently? That’s what the linked article mentioned.

You’re getting downvoted but you’re right. If they joined the fediverse that means you can have an account on any other platform you choose, including one you own. And that one account can access all the content everywhere. So basically you’d get all the perks of YouTube but few if any of the problems.

Alts or bots, maybe

If that’s truly the case, nothing on earth can protect your data.

That being said, large corporations are far more liable to consumer protection lawsuits, especially in areas like the EU.

The easiest way is a sitewide NoAI meta tag, since it’s the current standard. Researchers are much more likely to respect a common standard and extremely unlikely to respect a single user’s personal solution adding a link to their comments.

Plus even if you defederate them, oops, it’s all public anyway!

Yeah but now they have to play by our rules or get defederated. We are no longer at the mercy of profit motives.

Because they’re not familiar with the concept of doing whatever the fuck you want.

The only thing Reddit still has is certain very active niche communities, but we do great on the more general stuff.

It’s a lovely place these days. Welcome back.

Yep, on a public forum like this we lose very little on privacy by federating with them. What we do stand to lose is comment and post quality, but that’s trivial to fix by simply blocking threads on a personal level.

I think you’re confusing what the word “algorithm” means. It could be literally anything! You could even write an algorithm that serves you the single most interesting, high quality, perfectly relevant piece of information found on the internet that day.

Yes obviously mainstream algorithms are designed like you said. But there’s no reason why they have to operate like that.

An algorithm that prioritizes quality (instead of engagement) DOES change it though. Let’s not pretend that all algorithms are the same.

I strongly believe the “algorithm of the future” is a locally-run, personalized content filter AI that you can train to wade through all the shit and find the diamonds. We have the technology right now, but nobody has put it all together yet.

I actually disagree with that. It’s theoretically possible to have quality and quantity at the same time. But to do so, it can’t be based on an engagement algorithm, because engagement typically correlates with low quality posts.

This is why you’ll never see quality and quantity together from a profit-seeking platform - they are incentivized to shovel you low quality stuff that’s highly engaging.

It’s really painful that these graphs don’t start at zero. Hard to see if that growth is as dynamic as it looks

Frankly this is a damn good legal argument if Apple tries to claim in court that only they can keep people safe.

It’s going to be an arms race to make sure free software provides a better service than Threads does, and that people know about it. We can’t be satisfied with unpolished diy software for nerds any more.