Lots of venture capital money behind it. I wonder how quickly the enshitification will begin.
Look at that, Digg-ing up the corpse of a horse just to beat it more.
Fediverse ftw
They’re betting that AI can help to address some of the messiness and toxicity of today’s social media landscape. At the same time, social platforms will need a new set of tools to ensure they’re not taken over by AI bots posing as people.
“We’re banking on AI as a competitive advantage but also, here’s why it’s bad” is quite a business strategy
Ooohhh a venture capitalist social media platform! I wonder how and in how many overly creative and putrid ways that site will try and fuck me over, inside and out.
Yeah, hells no
It’s the same as here, and Reddit. All these sites are the same.
Yeah, I really hate how the Lemmy corporation abuse their users. Yesterday they released the new Lemmy subscription, Lemmy Plus, which removes their gazillion ads and their other shenanigans. Crazy stuff. Using the official Lemmy client is also pretty annoying, I miss using Lemmy third party apps. Overall I really wish there was an alternative free and open-source platform to escape to. Would be cool if it was also federated so no one is truly in control of it
Lemmy has VC funding?
I actually think the lack of funding means Lemmy doesnt have the same incentives to enshitify itself.
Lemmy did have some funding for anyone curious but the good kind.
We left Digg for Reddit, then they enshitified Reddit so we went to the fediverse and now they want to bring Digg back. The turd just circles the toilet bowl endlessly.
Bc people keep putting money into it, thereby incentivizing the continuation of the never-ending cycle…
Digg is coming back?
Whats next?
Fark?
Rotten. com?
rotten will make a comeback if any of those “save the children” bills get passed.
Fark never went away. I still browse daily.
it still exists? wow.
Why does sorting by trending only show posts from December 10th?
The only Reddit alt I need is Lemmy.
Anything that takes users away from Reddit, and forces Reddit to compete, is a plus for me.
Being owned by venture capitalists is pretty much an assurance that they’ll turn it to shit as much as they can get away with. The entire reason people abandoned digg for reddit in the first place was because it was selling out to ad space and shill accounts and manipulation. The venture capitalists will want big returns on their investments.
Silly question. Is Reddit still banning comments that say Lemmy?
I don’t have an account.
I heard that was highly community-dependent - the more high-profile a community the more likely for it to be removed.
Dunny. I’ve mentioned it a few times. I don’t think they’re still removing them but I bet they are still suppressing them
Idk, I think there are also legitimate arguments for piefed !
We can have both, thats allowed :)
What’s piefed? I looked at it and mostly saw lemmy instances.
It’s an alternative to Lemmy with some different features. Since it uses the same protocol under the hood, its instances federate with Lemmy. There’s more info on the differences here.
It’s like Lemmy, but it has more features because the devs aren’t tankies and they actually do work instead of just denying genocides all day
Tankie you say
Are there any plans to improve Piefed’s RSS feeds? I primarily browse through Thunderbird, and Lemmy’s feeds are a lot more content-rich
Sounds like a good question for @rimu@piefed.social
Such as?
This is just off the top of my head.
Grouping comments of the same posts posted on different comms for one.
Keyword filtering to fade or outright block.
Idk if filtering is in Lemmy, but grouping comments definitely isn’t.
I could go for a text only version of this
That’s what Usenet was.
yeah it was pretty good I was there
I miss it. SLRN and proper score file made it the best information tool on the internet back in the day.
I was gonna give it a chance back when they were letting people reserve their usernames. When the site first went live (in beta, I guess?) they wanted me to pay them money to gain access. Enshittification is baked into the platform.
Again? This is like the 8th time they have announced this in the last 10 years.
I was gonna say this is at least Digg 3.0.
Wasn’t Digg 2.0 what “created” Reddit (or at least gave it critical mass) (along with the child porn obviously)
I really wanted to like it, but it’s already a right-wing cesspit. 🤷♂️ Maaaaaybe it’ll improve, now that it’s public, but I don’t have high hopes.
I know this place is just the opposite kind of echo chamber, but when the other option is being beaten over the head with transphobia and Maga shit, ehh, I’ll take it.
Reality has a liberal bias.
Lemmy has a communist bias.
Classic Liberal, yes.
The reality that people manage to share with others, perhaps. I think peoples’ inner worlds, internal feelings and emotions have likely shown changing trends of comprehension/awareness throughout our histories and likely through all of time. The nature of consciousness is far from deciphered, so it makes sense (to me) to interpret your reference to reality as the one that we all share, talk about, and know about thusfar (this is how I understood your definition of the term, when upvoting your sentimental statement)
Your actions are real.
Your thoughts are all in your head.If actions depend on our thoughts, and we are capable of thinking about our actions… Where did I “begin” (the sequence of steps which must have occured in order for you to have existed in your present form and current context), and where will I “end” (cease to have any record of ever having existed)
If actions depend on our thoughts
They don’t
Where did I “begin” … where will I “end”
“Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here’s Tom with the weather.” - Bill Hicks
Oh OK, thanks for clearing that up for me. I didn’t get the knews about that guy on acid, but that is good to know. I guess learning philosophy for fun was a stupid fucking idea in retrospect, but at least god is dead now, so I don’t need to stress to much about my own feelings on the matter much anymore, considering that its all just illusions upon illusions. I’m more about the vibes these days anyway, as we all might eventually say.
Says you
Say who?
Quick, “you” turn
When decision
I you word
Forgive me, reasonable
I’ve read this six times and still have no idea what you’re trying to say
Language sux, make new ones (words, I guess, is the unit of measure or base unit here, since I think creating whole new languages from scratch without accidentally just mapping out an old language you already know well onto a new linguistic [phonetic?] structure would be difficult for groups of people to do, especially if they all had some shared language that they knew and that most of their ideas that they have learned were taught to them in that language, while they were all trying to creatively conceive of a new language to use amongst each other, even if they set out with an intention to try to not copy or carry over much or any of the previous languages rules, structures, patterns, etc. ). all I really did was try to explain why I was reluctant to upvote based on the necessarily ambiguous definitions of two of the key words in the initial comment. “Reality” was the one I chose to reflect upon and rant about, rather than “liberal”, because I think the attitude of trying to anthropomorphize a concept that none of us knows a perfect definition for, and there will likely be ongoing scientific and philosophical debate on the concept for centuries yet to come, is even more poetically dubious than claiming that all of existence somehow conforms to ones own personal expectation and not recognizing the dangers associated with various biases which might inform our current disposition towards concepts or issues which we have come to recently develop or consider within our working framework of understanding upon which we each may be standing for ourselves in order to maintain such an extracurricular style of dialogue.
Maybe put away the thesaurus.
I just realize this may be read as more of a mental health tip in this context/ in response to my love hate relationship for extra unnecessary over the top vocabulary, rather than as a personal attack or critique of the whole argument/perspective. Maybe it is time to set the ol thesaurus down for a while, practice learning body language or spirit speak for a while in the stead of the dialogues.
rather than as a personal attack or critique of the whole argument/perspective
I don’t even know what your argument or perspective is. Verbosity is not a virtue.
practice learning body language or spirit speak for a while in the stead of the dialogues
If that’s the only alternative please stick with the word salads. It’s easier to ignore someone who talks too much than someone who assumes they know what someone else is thinking because they blinked wrong.
If you attempt to slow down enough to touch grass, then try to tell a story describing that grass to someone who has never seen a living plant before, you might become frustrated at how little people care about grass when they don’t know anything about plants yet
Try to let it go and practice radical acceptance. What else has the slightest chance of you finding happiness? Do with this message whatever you will.
Can I get that word salad with the dressing on the side?
Word salad is what ‘generative’ ai does best.
People always talk about word salad like its a bad thing. Salad is good. Words must be the shitty part they are referencing, ig, idk. I see no way that two good things combined together could become a bad thing, but I always liked words so I don’t ever know what the haters are talking about
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This is a rerun, and the fediverse is better
I watched Kevin and company rebuild this through their pre-platform
Same centralized gamed bullshit
Kevin Rose is a looser
Reddit was the Digg replacement.
oh how the turn tables
EDIT: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!
