Sung to the tune of a certain Dead Kennedys song, as covered by Napalm Death.
halm
To quote Life of Brian,
Splitters!
...assuming of course these are people who left the open Fediverse to join another corporate platform.
Yeah, it's definitely that. Love how the Timeless Child can be used to patch canon holes in retrospect (but probably not the ones it created) 😄
I don't have anywhere near your experience, but the key points (customizable, no bloat, good wiki) all scream Arch, as you predicted 🙂
I think we agree on the limited capability of (what is currently passed off as) "artificial intelligence", yes.
VC = venture capitalism.
That's a feature, not a bug. Celebrity culture needs to get in the sea.
According to that research mentioned in the article, the answer is yes. The big caveats are
- that you need to get conspiracy theorists to sit down and do the treatment. With their general level of paranoia around a) tech, b) science, and c) manipulation, that not likely to happen.
- you need a level of "AI" that isn't going to start hallucinating and instead enforce the subjects' conspiracy beliefs. Despite techbros' hype of the technology, I'm not convinced we're anywhere close.
The Great Sellout to Meta.
Is this Great Sellout in the room with us right now? Because Meta did implement an open protocol into Threads, but it has been widely blocked by other ActivityPub instances. That is not a "sellout".
Sounds like your principles will only lead you off social media, perhaps the internet entirely?
Let's take that etymology one step further: "fan" comes from "fanatic", so a stan is a stalker fanatic. Which somehow has become a positive term in some circles.
Need to read up on smoke signals and/or carrier pigeons 🙂
I'd really recommend giving Syncthing a second chance, twist a few knobs in the settings until it works. I've used it for years with barely a hitch.