CovenOS, a fork of TempleOS

Build it on top of Bittorrent. If you like a post, you’re seeding it. When you want to stop seeding it, your like goes away.

Then popular things will have a large pool of seeds mitigating much of the bandwidth cost to the instance host.

With the side effect of making manipulating the voting algorithm with bots a lot more expensive.

Also, there’s the tactic of not using NTFS

If you’re into that kind of thing

There’s a few of us

She speaks well of you in my experience

Well, I wouldn’t listen to her. She married you, so her judgement is a bit suspect.

Sure, and there you just have to weigh:

• Your relationship with that person vs
• Your desire to have a right to privacy and not participate in a system which weaponizes social media to generate political outcomes favorable to the billionaire owners of those services (ex:, as the stories today show, disallowing saying the word Epstein or Zionist on TikTok).

I know that isn’t an easy decision and generally I value my relationships more than fighting The Man. I’ve just been lucky enough that my social circle are all other tech people who have been privacy-aware since the beginning. I do keep an iPad to talk to family, but it is not associated with any other account that I use.

Roger, I’m convoluting your vector if you know what I mean

I think it’s akin to the sentiment that we see on here sometimes where people wish that Lemmy had bigger communities.

We’ve been conditioned to think more views/subscribers/upvotes is always a positive thing and you should always be aiming for more.

In reality (and imo), communities that have less members more successfully function as actual communities. Toxic conversations are a lot less likely to break out among people who’ve had a bunch of other conversations before and users who exhibit toxic behavior are socially shunned and shamed if not banned. (I’m massively generalizing here, but I don’t want to write a book).

The way I’ve managed with my group is to just not have the other accounts and tell them that if they want to message me then they can install Signal. It’s a bit of a filter as well; If they’re not willing to do something as simple as install an app to talk to you, then they were not likely very good friends to begin with (imo).

Narrative control is entirely in the hands of who can hand out bans.

All of the things in that image are tactics that have been being used for nearly a decade now. It’s not a thing unique to AI.

LLMs have only made it so that the bad operators who are pushing these kinds of operations now have a force multiplier.

We have already have a bot problem, but the capabilities were such that only a human would be able to draft arguments and posts while the vast majority of bots were simply there to manipulate the algorithm/votes so that their content is signal boosted.

Now a single person can control a large amount of accounts which can actively respond and argue like a real person in addition to the existing vote manipulation bot swarm.

Look at how many ‘people’ suddenly appeared out of the woodwork after the Minnesota shooting and started posting despite being inactive for months. Go look on any big instance at the number of communities which have moderators squatting on popular community names despite them having 0 subscribers, traffic or posts.

I don’t doubt that there are entire instances being run by these operations so that, much like the ever famous r/conservative, they can control the echo chamber.

LLMs are just the latest tool in their arsenal, but this tactic of manipulating social media is taking place right now.

Sounds like someone needs to lower your temperature setting.

Your life is better for it

gottem

Marjorie Taylor Greene - former(recently) GA House rep

Why would they not?!

The extension cord won’t reach my Airbus

First Magic: The Gathering, and now this. Have Republicans no shame?