cakeistheanswer

joined 1 year ago

It's a very interesting thought, but it will always struggle to account for variables you can't see.

It's always going to be designed top down to approximate your own development as human from the ground up. I don't douby AI as a feasible possibility, but I don't think we're headed for digital clones. They're always going to have some amount of the creators ghost or assumptions in the machine.

I've checked the frontpage from time to time just to monitor what's changing, but I have yet to log in.

[–] cakeistheanswer@lemmy.fmhy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a distilled version of 'the wisdom of the crowds'. With all the dog piling that comes with reactions to things that are pointed at the wrong audience. There's generally some people with baggage in there somewhere who will take issue, and you get downvoted.

However, what's always interesting about these platforms is where good ideas rise, where they come from, and how controversial they are, all of which you lose with the twitter/mastodon architecture.

It may be easier to find your crowd, but how useful is that to you depends on what you use your online presence for.

If we didn't live in a universe of an obviously (over)reactionary electorate this might be the ideal.

The problem is consensus building takes time, as long as political wins are narrow you're reinforcing the outage cycle.

I've got 2, largely out of curiosity for what defederation meant as far as user perspective.

When exporting comes online I'll likely make an effort to spin up an instance if it's still feasible... So there will be a 3rd cake?On the positive side I don't think you're going to find many people wanting to sock puppet mild takes and noise rock.

I was able to get everywhere til I bumped into a nsfw redirect. I'm not sure there was synchronized expiry, but I cant imagine the incentive to work to hard winding down.

[–] cakeistheanswer@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Isn't the key operating word here business?

With no advertising on the line and no operations currently in place operating at anything but a loss there isn't a commercial interest at stake.

Ahh always nice to revisit my first dose of propaganda.

I would have downloaded a car if I could have.