FaceDeer

There is one nice feature that pushes back against hive-mindedness here that Reddit lacks, at least; you can see your upvote and downvote totals rather than just the single aggregate total. Reddit used to be like that years ago but they got rid of it.

That means that if you say something that gets a ton of both downvotes and upvotes you can at least know that there were a significant number of people who liked it it. Over on Reddit saying anything that netted negative karma felt like screaming into the void.

Oh, and the small population means that downvoted comments are still likely easy to see. That helps too.

Still, the Fediverse does feel more strongly bubbled than Reddit does, from my subjective and anecdotal position.

10 hours ago over in lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world you saw a picture that you rather liked but that was getting a lot of downvotes and you didn't know why. You were told by @breadleyloafsyou@lemmy.zip that "lemmy doesn’t like AI"

Also 10 hours ago over in nostupidquestions@lemmy.world you said "I know its an unpopular opinion, but I don't agree with punching Nazis. It makes them look like a victim, and violence never works." You got a bunch of downvotes for that yourself.

Just a couple of examples of situations where an opinion that was against the consensus view of the community got "punished."

Technically, yeah. Some instances are run by tin-pot dictators with delusions of godhood, but if you get banned from one of those just switch to another one.

The communities tend to be bubblier, though, since they're small. So if your opinions don't match you'll get shouted down harder.

A major problem faced by first-mover companies like OpenAI is that they spend an enormous amount of money on basic research and initial marketing and hardware purchases to set up in the first place. Those expenses become debts and have to be paid off by the business later. If they were to go bankrupt and sell off ChatGPT to some other company for pennies on the dollar that new owner would be in a much better position to be profitable.

There is clearly an enormous demand for AI services, despite all the "nobody wants this" griping you may hear in social media bubbles. That dermand's not going to disappear and the AIs themselves won't disappear. It's just a matter of finding the right price to balance things out.

Graphics cards haven't been used in any significant quantity for cryptocurrency mining for a long time now.

How else would this "trusted" status be applied without some kind of central authority or authentication? If one instance declares "this guy's a bot" and another one says "nah, he's fine" how is that resolved? If there's no global resolution then there isn't any difference between this and the existing methods of banning accounts.

If this is something that individual instances can opt out of then it doesn't solve the "bot problem."

If users want control then they have to take some responsibility.

Boom, centralized control of the Fediverse established.

Whenever I've done nothing wrong, I like to make that clear by going down to the courthouse and threatening judges not to charge me with anything.

Ham radios could totally be botted, there are plenty of voice models out there that would sound convincing. I assume there's just not much call for it yet because there aren't many people to reach on ham radio.

Once people start congregating to a new medium, that medium will become worth targeting. I don't think that can be stopped without some heavy duty gatekeeping. You might want to read up on proof of personhood protocols for some ideas.

I seem to recall Putin giving his military commanders a hard deadline of mid November to take Pokrovsk.

On the one hand, another round of high-ranking people falling out of windows would be welcome. On the other hand, maybe they should stay in charge.