JustinH

dansup, 10 months ago to random

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JustinH, 10 months ago to internet

"'For you' isn't." (by me!)

“For you”, “home”, "popular", etc. Are often friendly-sounding ways of saying “not what you signed up for”. When we scroll algorithmically-sorted feeds with ads and inserted content, we are surrendering control over our own sense of reality to for-profit big tech companies.

#Meta's own study demonstrated that chronological feeds are less addictive. Thankfully apps like @Mastodon and #RSS readers exist that grant us control again.

http://www.staygrounded.online/p/for-you-isnt?r=tv8a1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

jeffjarvis, 10 months ago to random

Missed this while traveling: Just SUPERB by @yoyoel illustrating the impossible nuances of moderating humans. He proposes an ombuds model over legalism. Good idea. I also imagine a bartender model: consistent but flexible authority.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/content-moderation-s-legalism-problem?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

rysiek, 10 months ago to random

Just got hit with:

"But can you prove ChatGPT is not intelligent in the human sense?"

Oh my that old chestnut. 🙄

I am not making a claim, I am merely rejecting somebody else's claim that ChatGPT is intelligent in the human sense.

The burden of proof is on whoever claims that ChatGPT is intelligent in the human sense. That proof would also need to be accompanied by a clear, unambiguous, testable definition of what "intelligent" means, that ideally includes humans but excludes calculators.

molly0xfff, 10 months ago to random

the wikipedia article about HAL 9000 has a whole top-level section on sexuality 🤨

thurrott, 10 months ago to random

Microsoft is Making its Bing Chatbot Available in Chrome and Safari https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/286070/microsoft-is-making-its-bing-chatbot-available-in-chrome-and-safari?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

JustinH, 10 months ago to internet

I asked #Llama2 to write a few words about social media in the style of me and I think it absolutely nailed the vibe I'm going for.

#meta #ai

ben, 10 months ago to random

I buy the take that a goal of buying Twitter was to stop progressive movements that were organizing there.

These movements were and are changing the world for the better.

The fediverse needs to be built to be their forever home: a place to join together across borders to make the world better for everyone, with equal opportunities for all.

I still, despite everything, after all this time, believe this is the promise of the internet.

mastodonmigration, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to random

#ThreadsNews July 21, 2023

So, this is a big problem!

Media Matters: #Meta is still allowing misinformation and hate speech to proliferate on Threads >>> https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/meta-still-allowing-misinformation-and-hate-speech-proliferate-threads

"#Threads still isn’t enforcing the hate speech policies that govern Instagram, allowing users to post anti-LGBTQ, racist, and anti-immigrant rhetoric"

The article lists many of examples of unmoderated anti-immigrant, xenophobic, anti-LGBTQ hate speech, plus right wing baseless political attacks, and misinformation.

leo, 10 months ago to random

RIP reformed hacker and security expert Kevin Mitnick 1963-2023.

20 years ago, Kevin joined the Screen Savers to get on the Internet for the first time since his conviction. We brought in some special guests to advise him.

https://youtu.be/heiHrcFlqu4

design_law, 10 months ago to random

One suggestion: If you want the fedi to be a welcoming place, don't jump in to someone's mentions to explain the fedi UNLESS explicitly asked to do so.

"But...."

But nothing. This place will survive a little technical misunderstanding or misstatement.

It will not survive newcomers being bombarded with endless fedisplaining.

erlend, 10 months ago to bluesky

In light of growing moderation challenges at both #BlueSky and #Threads , here’s a @pluralistic classic:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/04/pick-all-three/

> The Moderator's Trilemma goes, "Large, diverse userbase; centralized platforms; don't anger users – pick any two."

> Rozenshtein proposes a solution: federation. De-siloing social media, breaking it out of centralized walled gardens and recomposing it as a bunch of small servers run by a diversity of operators with a diversity of content moderation approaches.

JustinH, 10 months ago to threads

"Threads is a New Mall" (by me!)

Now that #Threads is here, I have a strong feeling we're going to be seeing more attempts to paint Mastodon as "uncool". When corporations can't fight something with money, their only hope is to discourage it via culture. The Fediverse is an existential threat to Meta and they know it. Remember Google's "No Moat" memo? "Open source is eating our lunch".

https://www.staygrounded.online/p/threads-is-a-new-mall-but-still-a

#Fediverse #Mastodon #Meta

lauren, 10 months ago to Futurology

It's almost as if #Meta declared that they'd federate #Threads as a way to get the "fediverse" crowd not to bitch about Meta/Facebook/Zuck's horrific past abuses of privacy and other data abuses, and the fact that the Threads app has quite possibly the most invasive set of anti-privacy demands of any app in history. Almost like Meta thinks the fediverse gang are all suckers.

stux, 10 months ago to mastodon

The Dutch govenment now also has a #Mastodon instance :mastodon: :blobcheerwitch:

They're not "officially live" yet but it's online! 🇳🇱

rysiek, 11 months ago to random

Hey @6543 any thoughts on how the-federation.info will handle Threads? Will the data related to it show on there and be included in the charts?

Thanks!

ai6yr, 11 months ago to reddit

Ha, this is great. #Reddit is a dying mall: (posted by @JustinH) https://www.staygrounded.online/p/reddit-is-a-dying-mall

JustinH, 11 months ago to reddit

"Reddit is a Dying Mall" (by me!)

I predict that what will happen to #Reddit is the same thing that is happening to Twitter and has already happened to Facebook and frankly, actual shopping malls. The business side of things will churn along divorced from the content which will become ever more generic and culturally irrelevant.

https://www.staygrounded.online/p/reddit-is-a-dying-mall

#lemmy #kbin #RedditMigration

leo, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago) to random

Don’t kid yourself. “Artificial intelligence“ is just Big Tech’s way of saying “hey, it’s not our fault. It’s the machine’s!“ In point of fact, every malign use of “AI“ is really just some human-composed algorithm doing something that maximizes profit or control at the expense of people. We must not let these companies off the hook. They’re in charge. Not the machine. Pay attention to the man behind the curtain.

JustinH, 1 year ago to random

Not that I was very interested in BlueSky to begin with, but this is a really good breakdown by @rysiek on why it's decentralized in name only:

https://rys.io/en/167.html

What I don't really understand is what the sales pitch from BS actually is for anyone to run an instance of their own?