brothershamus

Cardinal Scum: Lord Google! Our Premium service is only making 8.5 Billion net profit per year, a miserable increase of 25% from last year!

Lord Google: These peasant eyeballs have disappointed me. Force the plebians to ingest propaganda as in the olden times! And as for the so-called-Premium subs . . . we will crush their purchasing power!

Cardinal Scum: Yes Lord Google! Brilliant!

Lord Google: Muwahhahahahahah!!!

Cardinal Scum: (hesitantly) Heh heh . . hee heee heeh hehehehh yesssss . . yes

Absolutely the most hated. The marketing chuds are gaslighting by claiming to be less hated. Nah, nah brah. Seriously the most hated. By FAR.

If you’re on Xitter, I don’t know what to tell you. Except, get off.

Has no one made the standard “how to move to Mastodon and take all your twitter followers with you” yet? If they have I havent’ seen it, but that’s the missing link here.

Exsqueeze me?

“That’s not writing, that’s just typing!”

It’s the same situation, just writ large. Dumb human decisions to put AI where it shouldn’t be. Heck, you can put it in charge of the nuclear missles now if you want to. Don’t. Though. That’d be really, really stupid.

Part of my knee-jerk dislike of the AI hype is that it’s glorified text completion. It doesn’t know shit. It only knows the % chance of your saying the next word. AGI is not happening anytime soon and all this is techbro theatre for the sake of money.

Anyone who reads a wall of bland generated text and thinks we’re about to talk to god is seriously mistaken.

They found out he raped his 4 year old sister and kept doing it well into her teens?

Okay let’s get this straight: No Ads. Ever. Period. Capisce?

Create, don’t create, steal, don’t steal, jerk off, don’t jerk off - don’t care. NO. ADS. THE END.

Then they fucked up.

Well I’m glad that’s settled then.

Why not? Uh, No. That’s why. Not now, not the 100th time, not ever. I want it to stop asking. No.

. . . . WELL??

YES! The one main hurdle I’ve found (and the constant “share your contacts??” prompting). Good luck to them!

Reddit did some things right, somehow. Through good decisions made by people who were probably let go later, or whatever they hashed out a workable structure for a theoretically infinite number of topics to be held and, to some extent, managed. That’s good.

The bad of course is the corporate nature of it which we’re seeing in all it’s glory as they do all they can to goose the monetization ahead of the IPO so the executives, etc. etc.

I think Lemmy/kbin’s real test is yet to come when people who don’t normally post their actual thoughts (as opposed to hot takes, recycled memes, or other “easy” content like simple reactions) step out to do that - hopefully. The “test” is that they should be comfortable and happy to do it, and the userbase’s test is to let them without reacting in a kind of ‘default reddit’ mode.

Anybody who was on a BBS or a message board or usenet or used/uses RSS or has a “home base” of a small community knows what that’s like. We see it in little pockets here and there - sometimes as a new, non-reddit type of post, sometimes as a reaction against a typical reddit-type of post (who’s spamming random? whatever.) But it’s fun to anticipate and whenever it happens that users feel lemmy/kbin have hit their stride it will certainly be different from whatever reddit is now. How, we don’t know yet. But it’s set up such that it has a really good chance to be good.

Money and the fact that C-suite still has no f*%! clue about technology. They can tweet now. yay.

Seriously, they screwed themselves with bad decisons.

Make use of your blocks early, folks

The problem was, and is, that Twitter was always a private for-profit company whose business model was tracking users and mining their private data. Yes, it could do good things, and in the hands of some of those opressive regimes it could do some bad things and in between it was built to do some skeezy things because that was how they attracted the venture capital.

Not to mention it was never innovative in what it was offering, there were and are many different avenues to connect people (that is the fundamental feature of the internet) it just created a platform that became popular for various reasons. Earthquake victims and rescuers, anti-government protestors and so on could always use Signal or another app for talking to each other - and should.

One of the real impacts of the cancer of Twitter came when journalists reached a critical mass and decided if something was tweeted about it counted as a primary source and they could write an article about it without having to get out of their chair. It was always lazy journalism and often totally irresponsible journalism and it’s no coincidence that the apex of Twitter journalism was the rise of an orange demented sociopathic rapist. All of which was part of the promise of a service that sold views and news by secret algorithm and cash.