Look man…I hate AI too…but you can’t just use it as a scapegoat to cover for humans being humans.

Should the AI be telling him to do more and more drugs until he died? Well, no, but also…maybe don’t do dangerous drugs at all.

Like if chatgpt says to shoot yourself in the face, and you do, is it chatgpt’s fault you killed yourself? Or was it you killing yourself at fault for killing you?

This world is getting dumber and dumber.

Fun fact, Bandcamp was started after this one time, at band camp…someone made a mix tape called “Quickflip Tricks Mix '96”

Can it work on these android retro handhelds?

I don’t use twitter, but the reason people still do is the same reason people still use reddit.

It’s where the people are. Normally this is the part where I use some big exaggerated example of what COULD be happening on twitter and they’d still use it. However, saying “They would still use use it if it catered to pedophiles and nazis” is not only true, because they are, but it’s also the most exaggerated example I can think of.

No matter what twitter does, people will still use them, BECAUSE people use them. Twitter has something like 375million people, while Mastadon has varying reported numbers, but I’m seeing 7million, 10million or 12million depending on who’s talking. That’s still a far cry from 375million.

The hard part is figuring out how many of those 375million are bots.

I agree, Go Guards!

And you didn’t invite me???

The irony of using Steve Harvey of all people to make your point…

…so it’s even dumber than I thought.

Piefed also exists, as does Mbin.

Well damn. That sounds…very nice.

I literally got banned from reddit 2 years ago, and searched “reddit clone”. Found Lemmy, and here I am.

“Ooooooo, a reddit competitor!”

“Digg betting AI can help”

“Swiiiiiiing and a miss!”

In social media groups and private channels, adherents share photos and discuss whether people like John Krasinski or Erin Darke have had gender-affirming surgeries and/or perform blood rituals to Baphomet.

I don’t even know what a “Baphomet” is, but these people STILL sound batshit insane to me

Hey! Whoa! That’s uncalled for!!!

…being a human dildo sounds quite fun!

Orrrrr…pick a non-active community. Or both. And start posting in your local community. By that, I mean I live in Cleveland. There are 3 Cleveland communities. All dead. I’m the only one posting in one. I still get replies and upvotes. So people are there. They just all lurk until I post.

Do that. And post in a dead community. And post in an active community. We need activity basically everywhere besides tech/politics/news.

I agree with everything that you’ve said. I would also add:

Find your nearest non-political non-tech hobby community and start posting things people actually want to see

Because if we’re going to cast the same net reddit does, people with a more varied set of interests need to come here. Can’t be all linux, politics, and news. We’re going to need people who like baking. We’re going to need sports fans. We’re going to need music.

I could type new communities we need to be active all day. Humans are surprisingly a diverse set of creatures. You have one set of interests, I have another. Different set of interests. And both are totally valid.

The thing people here don’t seem to grasp is that OTHER interests and OTHER people using the fediverse isn’t a bad thing. If a bunch of boomers come here, and make their own communities to talk about Taylor Swift, and whatever else they talk about on facebook. That’s good that it would be here! Not bad!

They could talk about gardening, and model trains, and whatever else. It wouldn’t appeal to you, and thats ok.

votes for MynameisAllen for president

Now if only we knew their name…

Dumbtv

Uhhh…the coverup worked. I’m 42, and this is the first I’ve ever heard that we nuked Greenland. I feel like that SHOULD be common knowledge, but I’m willing to bet if I ask 100 random people, 0 will think I’m telling the truth if I told them we’ve nuked Greenland before.

I smoked weed when it was illegal. I’ll speak freely when it’s illegal.

And one day I’ll shit on Art Modell’s grave. That’s not really relevant to AI, but I’m still gonna do it.