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J12t

@J12t@social.coop

Technologist, founder, organizer.

Let's put people back in control of their technology. The Fediverse is a good start. Also wondering aloud where we are taking this planet.

Check out my home page for more info and links.

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J12t, to random
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Imagine two identical #social #networks with mainstream users. Same number of users, same connectedness of the social graph, same demographics etc.

Social network A only has an algorithmic feed. Social network B only has a chronological people-I-follow feed.

What would the usage numbers look like in comparison? Numbers of posts, numbers of likes/replies/boosts, growth trajectory, etc?

I would expect somebody has done some research on this. Anybody know of any public results?

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Over on #bluesky, somebody pointed me to this very fascinating thread on this topic: https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3kp7lfkssxl2q

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@danlyke Yes, indeed. The thing that struck me more, though, is that the thread alludes to a number of entirely different use cases / user needs addressed by the same social media application, and it would be so much more useful to think of them as distinct. I wrote down 5 of them on my whiteboard. Need to blog about this. Interestingly, in the fediverse we could actually have different applications for different needs!

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@julian Yes, we need to do a public service (with selfish benefit, too) to categorize and articulate those different usage scenarios. In the fediverse, we could actually build different apps for different needs/wants on the same network and social graph.

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What an amazing opportunity to do the opposite of the shiny new thing called โ€œAIโ€.

Letโ€™s go.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2117752/google-gemini-ai.html

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Which percentage of people misspell Mastadon?

Ahem.

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Fascinating results in this global survey on democracy and related subjects.

One tidbit: everybody says that fighting climate change is important, but wants others to do that not their own government.

https://www.allianceofdemocracies.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/DPI-2024.pdf

J12t, to random
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Two thirds of Google searches already do not send the user to another website. That was in 2020 and it might have gotten worse since. I did not know that.

https://sparktoro.com/blog/in-2020-two-thirds-of-google-searches-ended-without-a-click/

H/t @ben

Gargron, to BelieveInFilm
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Descent to the coast. San Francisco.

๐Ÿ“ท Canon AE-1 Program
๐ŸŽž๏ธ Kodak Vision3 250D
๐Ÿ”ญ Canon FD 50mm/1.4 S.S.C.

J12t,
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@Gargron contrary to common beliefs, there is sometimes sunshine in San Francisco:-)

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New espresso machine. Now work should go twice as fast, right?

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Oh ChatGPT, how confidently you print out an algorithm that cannot possibly be correct!

I'm feeling like going to a doctor who skipped some classes in school and when encountering a patient with a condition they didn't learn about, they just make up some remedy. With extreme confidence in their demeanor.

Come to think of it, I have known some doctors to do that. So maybe ChatGPT is more human than we think.... ouch!

cmconseils, to random French
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The first 3 letters of 'Sweden' and 'Denmark' spell out 'Sweden.'

The remaining letters spell out 'Denmark.'

J12t,
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@cmconseils I sense a conspiracy.

J12t, to random
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"Meta AI Chief Says Large Language Models Will Not Reach Human Intelligence"

His peers must hate him!

https://slashdot.org/story/24/05/22/143243/meta-ai-chief-says-large-language-models-will-not-reach-human-intelligence

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@LaurentB45 It takes some courage to say that. The impact on the stock price may well be billions.

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Gordon Bell has died.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/gordon-bell-an-architect-of-our-digital-age-dies-at-age-89/

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Tax billionaires with 2% of their wealth annually? Now here is an ideaโ€ฆ

https://www.ft.com/content/1f1160e0-3267-4f5f-94eb-6778c65e65a4

J12t, to fediverse
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Exciting things are progressing around the . I can't wait!!!

J12t, to random
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The ex-Bavarians among us got Weisswurst for -- shall we call it brunch? -- today. In California. And it's actually not bad.

The Americans in the family also love it. So there is still hope for them.

https://dittmers.com/

Sadly, no fresh Brez'n from Esther's. We made do with German Farmer's bread, which surprisingly, the local grocery store sells from a bakery in Santa Cruz. And Weisswurstsenf, which Dittmer's sells.

anchorite, to random
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I love a good interview, and the questions being fired off here are excellent. Seeing how much Sundar squirms at each question means to me that Nilay is doing the right thing here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqikP9X9-ws

J12t,
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@anchorite started watching it. Managed for 5 min, but itโ€™s too painful to continue. Google is Wiley E Coyoteโ€ฆ

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Wow! โ€œโ€ฆ purchasing power โ€ฆ would already be 37% higher than it is now without global heating seen over the past 50 yearsโ€
The best is still to come /s
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/17/economic-damage-climate-change-report

J12t, to fediverse
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In light of recent discussions how to make it easier to interact with content on #fediverse servers other than your home instance:

What MSN does here is interesting. You can โ€œfollowโ€ before you sign in (not sure what that means? They implicitly create an โ€œaccountโ€ just from a session cookie?)

Also, assuming MSN has the money and expertise to really research this, the actual sign-in experience can take a lot of screens and they seem to be okay with that.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/meta-just-showed-off-threads-fediverse-integration-for-the-very-first-time/ar-BB1kbxDQ

J12t, to random
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I'm having a real hard time seeing how, if he managed to get his hands on TikTok, he would transform it into the "good internet". Without losing all the users.

Anybody else see what he apparently sees?

https://gizmodo.com/tiktok-ban-frank-mccourt-bytedance-liberty-china-app-1851478825

J12t,
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@lunaticatlarge How would you pull it off?

J12t,
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@reillypascal I'm aware of the protocol. Even beyond the specific protocol, I have never understood why anybody thinks an (all-public, never-can-delete) data store is the right place for social media data. I don't get the all-public about #Bluesky either. (and I'm not understanding what they may or may not support in terms of delete)

But re McCourt, he's not a geek, so he can only act on what geeks tell him, and they told him blockchain :-)

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Apple fail.

Today, my Mac's available disk space keeps dropping. I keep deleting stuff and disk space keeps dropping to where applications stop working and I apparently have less than 100M left. I'm panicking a bit because I keep deleting things and it gets worse not better.

Finally, I kill time machine. I haven't deleted any more files and have not done anything since, but now I have 135G free on disk.

What the?

J12t,
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@Bryan I know, been doing this for a long time. Just today Time Machine went haywire to the tune of 135G and I'm sure it would have kept going. After restarting it, now it happily backs up to the external disk and my local disk continues to have 135G free space.

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