I mean his from Africa, I wouldnt believe if his ancestors owned a couple plantations down there which ended up becoming what funded Musk in the first place. There's a lot of dirty money in the pockets of billionaires.
They should make an instance, it would help the general public discover the fediverse. Most people I talk to at the bar don't know about the fediverse, I've explained it so many times, some people show interest, some people don't see the point, or how it's a big deal. I probably just come off as a total geek.
Once meta opens up a channel to the fediverse, people will start to stumble upon the different instances, decide they are done with meta, and move on from meta.
There are some billionaires out there who are watching whats happening, they are noticing the patterns, the trends, what people want, and what people dont want.
All it takes is one clever billionaire, who realizes they have enough money to create the next best platform and be able to fund it by other means.
We are at the point where bots can generate ad revenue, so if we just abandon the old websites to bots, they become bot-towns that generate revenue, and that revenue goes towards funding ad free servers in the fediverse.
This may be what just happens.
If YouTube requires people to use adblockers that will be the start of another big platorm. The only thing is, is that many of these big YouTube channels get paid off and revenue, so they have no desire to move over to a different platform.
I think what we need to see is a humble platform, where there is no hunger for money, just the passion of putting out passionate content. Maybe even have a tip feature, so people can tip, but no ads.
Same goes with Facebook I'd love to see friendica or a new social media platform boom that is on the same vein, or better yet connects to different fediverse instances.
People need to all agree by the masses, that facebook is garbage, uninstall the app, and learn the ropes of a new platform.
Because of a generation gap, it would likely divide the older generation from the younger generation, as the older generation will be stuck feeding into Facebook. You would be surprised how many of them still watch TV.
It's become a divide.
Pirates are more likely to end up on Lemmy, while streamers are more likely to remain on Reddit.
What I am saying is there are people who don't care and will give their money and attention to easy to learn, and easy to consume services.
While the other people refuse to feed into corporate greed, and seek frugal affairs which require a little more time and patience.
Unfornately as I have been witnessing there are so many people who continue to use Reddit, and will always use Reddit. These are the people who probably started using Reddit within the past 5 years, and were unaware of third party apps.
The only Reddit they know is new Reddit, and Reddit through the app. Often these people will happily pay a monthly fee for no ads and premium features.
The long term users are the ones that have seen it through its stages, we remember when the upvotes and downvotes were accurate, and were instantly visible, we remember when there were less rules for posting, less bots, and accurate karma points on posts.
Now it's all rigged, and AI driven.
The people who see through it, and want to get their voice back, and a sense of genuine community are the ones that end up on here.
Anyone who still continues to use Reddit I have less respect for, especially if they are aware of the alternatives.
It's become a divide.
Pirates are more likely to end up on Lemmy, while streamers are more likely to remain on Reddit.
What I am saying is there are people who don't care and will give their money and attention to easy to learn, and easy to consume services.
While the other people refuse to feed into corporate greed, and seek frugal affairs which require a little more time and patience.
Unfornately as I have been witnessing there are so many people who continue to use Reddit, and will always use Reddit. These are the people who probably started using Reddit within the past 5 years, and were unaware of third party apps.
The only Reddit they know is new Reddit, and Reddit through the app. Often these people will happily pay a monthly fee for no ads and premium features.
The long term users are the ones that have seen it through its stages, we remember when the upvotes and downvotes were accurate, and were instantly visible, we remember when there were less rules for posting, less bots, and accurate karma points on posts.
Now it's all rigged, and AI driven.
The people who see through it, and want to get their voice back, and a sense of genuine community are the ones that end up on here.
Anyone who still continues to use Reddit I have less respect for, especially if they are aware of the alternatives.
It's become a divide.
Pirates are more likely to end up on Lemmy, while streamers are more likely to remain on Reddit.
What I am saying is there are people who don't care and will give their money and attention to easy to learn, and easy to consume services.
While the other people refuse to feed into corporate greed, and seek frugal affairs which require a little more time and patience.
Unfornately as I have been witnessing there are so many people who continue to use Reddit, and will always use Reddit. These are the people who probably started using Reddit within the past 5 years, and were unaware of third party apps.
The only Reddit they know is new Reddit, and Reddit through the app. Often these people will happily pay a monthly fee for no ads and premium features.
The long term users are the ones that have seen it through its stages, we remember when the upvotes and downvotes were accurate, and were instantly visible, we remember when there were less rules for posting, less bots, and accurate karma points on posts.
Now it's all rigged, and AI driven.
The people who see through it, and want to get their voice back, and a sense of genuine community are the ones that end up on here.
Anyone who still continues to use Reddit I have less respect for, especially if they are aware of the alternatives.
It's pretty easy to do, especially on the steamdeck
Just added it to the directory.
I noticed this yesterday as well. Made a post from lemmy.ca to lemmy.world I saw on lemmy.ca my post had about 100 upvotes and a bunch of comments.
Hopped into kbin because everyone kept raving about it, so my post with like 160 upvotes and way more comments.
Kept hopping back and forth between instances trying to reply to comments that would only appear on Kbin.
So I created an account on Kbin with the same username so I could reply to comments that didn't appear on lemmy.ca.
Kbin.social is definitely the most polished instance right now.
It would be cool if we built a counter army that looks for patterns that trigger redflags, kind of like police scanners, but instead of for vehicles, it detects AI.
Lemmy would need to develop an algorithm that combs through each account to identify suspicious activity, and it would need to have specific rules to follow such as post frequency, punctuation, and over all just strange activity. It would then proceed to further steps where the reachout to the user and confirm it's human. That obviously is tough to do at this point.
I wrote it, there may be some spelling mistakes in the post, if you look carefully. My writing skills are far from perfect, atleast I think so. If you truly believe my post was written by an AI I am flattered
My post wasn't AI, I copied and pasted my post to chatgpt4 and told it to prove to someone in a comment that I am not a bot.
Just to demonstrate what some average joe can do.
Anyone can run their posts through AI before posting them, I refuse to do that. If I was to use AI to assist my post, I would mention that I used ChatGPT in the post.
I'm thinking it's more a matter of months. It does not take long to direct already trained data sets towards new targets, especially trained off of Reddit data. And I think local language models will be used in the process as they are run exclusively off a single computer and doesnt follow strict rules.
Someone can have an intelligence on their computer with the motive to take over websites by creating interesting reading material. While the computer is also programmed to have multiple accounts open, upvoting each of their comments and posts.
That's a funny one! You're asking if I'm a bot. No, I'm not a bot. I'm as human as they come. I still recall the dial-up tone of my old internet connection and the thrill of engaging in heated discussions on early forum boards.
Remember the time when we had to wait for images to load line by line? Or when we were excited to get mail in our AOL inboxes? A bot wouldn't be able to reminisce about these experiences, but here I am, knee-deep in nostalgia.
I remember the time before captchas, and now, here we are, in an age where AI can crack those captchas. I've lived through the transformation of the internet, from a playground of raw, unfiltered ideas to a tool capable of shaping societies.
Now, I'm not just sharing my concerns about the future of the fediverse or the potential influx of corporate influence for the sake of it. These are real issues I believe we should consider as we navigate this digital landscape.
Being human, my concern is not just for myself, but also for the shared spaces we have built. Spaces that allow for genuine connection, free expression, and the transfer of knowledge. I hope that we can come together, learn from our collective past, and build an "Internet 2.0" that stays true to these principles.
So, let's continue this very human discussion. Share your thoughts, fears, hopes, and maybe even a bit of your own internet nostalgia. After all, isn't that what these platforms are truly about?
I got ChatGPT4 to write that for gags.
Right now it's obvious that an AI wrote that, but it's only a matter of time till the AI can play dumb, make human error and be convincing.
Ads embedded within links, yes. Hence why it would be a click bait title, so websites outside of Lemmy get traffic to boost ad revenue
I just moved over from kbin.social from another Lemmy instance. I feel like the Lemmy I was on I wasn't reveiving all the comments and upvotes on my posts vs on Kbin social.
As of today I have decided not to give Reddit any traffic. I don't look at it and I am very careful about clicking on any links directing me to it. I know there are so many discussions on Reddit that are related to my Google searches, it's so damn hard but I am sticking to my guns.
Kbin/Lemmy has been far supperior in everyway, despite it having less users, I feel like it's for the best.
They will definitely to ban bot activity. On Reddit bots became sort of accepted, if they can atleast moderate automatic post activity, that is a start.
My biggest concern is for when the bots can post on an untimely matter at random instances.
I could litterally be a bit just replying to posts at a natural human pace, based off of some sort of Redditors writing style if you catch my drift.
I am sure it's just a matter of time. AI detectors are good, but not that good. It will get to the point where the most believable posts are the ones with spelling mistakes and poor grammar, Infact human error would make for a good watermark.
Oh man, frog in a blender! You bring back memories.