Remember when the major complaint about Instagram was how so many people posted pictures of their food? When Instagram’s biggest annoyance was that people were being too authentic?
"We Need To Rewild The Internet"
An absolutely excellent read (and great analogy) by @mariafarrell and @robin Probably the best piece I've read all year.
I often struggle to think of a term for "appearing messy from a distance is often, on a human scale, healthy actually." Comparing the social web to an ecosystem is exactly it.
I poked around in the (slightly verbose) documentation and stumbled onto this:
Servers should not re-use URIs, regardless of the mechanism by which resources are created. Certain specific cases exist where URIs may be reinstated when it identifies the same resource,
So I wonder if it has the same inbuilt limitation that IPFS has, which means you cannot just update the data you are sharing, without also having to create a whole new link (I know IPFS are trying to work around that, but have seen no decentralised solution yet).
I’ll poke around some more!
Thanks for the link, I hadn’t heard of them before.
Now this is interesting, I know about Tor ofc, with all problems surrounding it (exit nodes etc) but I guess an onion website could be made well protected and shared & updated. You have to host it yourself though I guess.
Freenet, gotta dig down and see how it works under the surface, it looks very promising but it’s kind of complex and I haven’t yet figured out if it is all benevolent sharing for example and what happend if some random node sharing your stuff goes offline.
Very interesting!
I think (I’ll dig more to see if it stands) my advantage would be the redundancy (so the data always stays up and is hard to take down), the no need of benevolent nodes, and potentially the ease if use.
"Instead of finding new ways to power the internet besides “clout,” we’ve decided to power everything on internet attention. At the start of the social web we assumed content would get better. Platforms would get better. We, ourselves, would get better. And I simply do not think digital media literacy can reverse where we’ve found ourselves now."
From this week's above-average issue of Garbage Day by @ryanbroderick
I literally just wrote about the likelihood of this happening in my most recent piece, funny to see some confirmation. As AI gets better than humans at appeasing "The Algorithm" it will completely take them over.
@JustinH yeh I guess so. It’s probably almost always the case that the mainstream opinion pieces are late to the party that’s already been going on in the blogosphere.
Just discovered this awesome cookbook by Leanne Brown, called "Good & Cheap" for people with very tight budgets (designed around SNAP) that she gives away online for totally free:
"Instead of paying human moderators or otherwise not growing too-big-to-moderate, social media companies use imperfect automated tools to remove enough of the Nazi stuff so as to not to give off “Nazi site” vibes while hoping users will put up with least some Nazis. They are hoping that you will sit at their table and tolerate some Nazis."
"An LLM is not outputting based on what is true, or even based on an internal model of what it believes to be true. It’s outputting what you are most likely to perceive as plausible, which is often, but not always, the same thing. A scarier-sounding way to phrase it is this: GPT’s function is to generate the inputs least likely to set off your brains’ bullshit filters."
Anyone feel it's socially irresponsible for journalists to be promoting Threads as an "alternative" to 𝕏? I do like the work of @caseynewton but I feel like I'm taking crazy pills when I see ostensibly smart tech people amenable to the genocide-in-Myanmar company just because it's not Musk.
@JustinH Keep in mind that part of the reason that many are excited about Threads, including myself, is that it plans to join the Fediverse and enable all the same packing up and leaving that you can do on Mastodon. If they don't follow through that will change how everyone feels about it.
But also my point is that it's good for content moderation to protect the bottom line! If we can get everyone to believe that it serves a market function we'll get more of it