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- Comment on Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions 4 weeks ago:
I’m not sure a view or opinion can be correct or incorrect though except by general consensus
Absolutely things being presented as facts that are just incorrect should be blown out of the water immediately but everyone’s entitled to their opinion whether it’s well founded or not imo, censoring that’s just gonna drive them into echo chambers where they’ll never get the opportunity for someone to change their mind
- Comment on Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions 4 weeks ago:
I’m still of the opinion all of these viewpoints should be heard out at least once even if you dismiss them immediately
- Comment on Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions 4 weeks ago:
Did it get taken down or something?
- Comment on Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions 4 weeks ago:
Easy way to verify, ask it about vaccines
- Comment on Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions 4 weeks ago:
It was going so well until it started talking about white privilege and the Holocaust…
- Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers 5 weeks ago:
It’s good enough and everyone has it and knows it
I’m not about to even attempt to ask someone in a game if they’ve got matrix because the answer is going to be no
- Comment on Beeper is now available, no waitlist! 5 weeks ago:
Discord’s own Linux client is kinda ass and keeps breaking my build using old insecure electron versions/forcing you to update before you can use the app while not being up to date in my package manager
Gotta use a custom client anyway to keep my sanity intact
- Comment on Beeper is now available, no waitlist! 5 weeks ago:
Given it’s all entirely self host able if you use a different client I’m not sure how they could be
Unless there’s some binary blobs hidden in the repo but you’d think someone would have pointed that out by now
- Comment on Beeper is now available, no waitlist! 5 weeks ago:
Kind of is though, if it quacks like a duck
- Comment on Beeper is now available, no waitlist! 5 weeks ago:
Does the whole encryption/decryption thing still bother you if you self host?
I tried out the app, the value there is that it’s ready to go straight away, though I took it all down again because my messages being unencrypted on someone else’s server makes me uneasy. May end up self hosting it for that reason and not using anything closed source
- Comment on A Digital Twin Might Just Save Your Life 1 month ago:
Sounds like a complete end to privacy as we know it
- Comment on Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores 1 month ago:
So after all that it was just a mechanical turk situation
It did say the workers were labelling the videos, so presumably they were trying to train an AI
- Comment on It’s time for a hard reset on notifications 1 month ago:
I’m not sure about on iOS, on android if you long press on any notification and go to disable it there are a bunch of toggleable notification categories
- Comment on It’s time for a hard reset on notifications 1 month ago:
True, not a personal human action though. I pretty much always want to see messages from people, but most of the time don’t care about stream notifications
- Comment on It’s time for a hard reset on notifications 1 month ago:
At least they normally let you selectively disable promotions
- Comment on It’s time for a hard reset on notifications 1 month ago:
This except for twitch streams
- Comment on It’s time for a hard reset on notifications 1 month ago:
I used to do this but it ended up in me missing notifications I actually cared about
The best solution is as someone else mentioned, just mute apps that send obnoxious notifications when you see them
Different notification sounds for different kinds of notifications has been big as well, one for messages, a different one for twitch streams, and another for everything else that normally gets ignored
- Comment on New Discord TOS binds you to forced arbitration - Opt-Out Now 1 month ago:
I thought Lemmy started without federation?
- Comment on New Discord TOS binds you to forced arbitration - Opt-Out Now 1 month ago:
Is open source though, federation can always come later
That said I’m not sure why they didn’t use matrix from the start
- Comment on New Discord TOS binds you to forced arbitration - Opt-Out Now 1 month ago:
Do I need to worry about this not being in the US? I’m wary of the way I word my opt out incase it causes me some issues down the line
- Comment on New Discord TOS binds you to forced arbitration - Opt-Out Now 1 month ago:
Isn’t there already one? Thought that was what Revolt was
- Comment on 😠Meta just showed off Threads’ fediverse integration for the very first time😠 1 month ago:
Jesus some of the names of the blocked instances are disturbing as hell
- Comment on Are We Watching The Internet Die? 2 months ago:
That wasn’t really my point, I quite like it too but the presence of the nerd net doesn’t mean the mainstream internet stuff goes away
- Comment on Are We Watching The Internet Die? 2 months ago:
I don’t think anyone’s ditching mainstream social media en masse though are they? Sure a bunch of us have but let’s be honest 90% of Lemmy/mastodon users are of a very similar demographic and not exactly a huge chunk of the population
- Comment on Are We Watching The Internet Die? 2 months ago:
I don’t think that’s a perfect system anyway though, spammers could create a massive tree of fake accounts and just only use a small proportion of them for spam
Use a number of compromised user accounts to set this up and it becomes a nightmare
- Comment on Customize or turn off chat filter? 5 months ago:
Use an instance that doesn’t censor words
- Comment on Can we defederate from rdq2.net? 7 months ago:
True. That definitely can’t stop it influencing people’s decisions at least in the short term
I’d still like to think in the long term younger generations are less racist and would replace older ones stuck in their ways that currently hold all the power
- Comment on Can we defederate from rdq2.net? 7 months ago:
I can’t say I do understand it as a social strategy, I would hazard a guess it’s something like “if we make this group enemy #1, we can get lots of people rallied behind us and they won’t pay attention to the horrible things we do”?
- Comment on Can we defederate from rdq2.net? 7 months ago:
Racism has dramatically reduced in recent years, used to be people would make racist comments in casual conversation and nobody would care
- Comment on Can we defederate from rdq2.net? 7 months ago:
Which is why Lemmy is a good system but I think that system is rather fragile because instances like lemmy.world could get the majority of the users, be absolute saints for a while so everyone gets comfortable and then influence the rest of the instances with threats of defederating
I guess considering there’s no monetary gain from having more users that doesn’t really work as well but still