That’s the spirit

Feeling concern for the welfare of a corporation is a lot like caring for a lion or some other large predator. You don’t want to see it suffer but you know that it could turn on you at any moment, when it’s convenient for them.

Who gives a fuck about the travails of corporations on the internet?

Jokes on you, I already watch them at 0.5x speed

You horny bastards

You hate to see it, whomp whomp

They tried to shoehorn a social component into Reddit post hoc but it is essentially a lurkers habitat and distinct from the walled gardens of FB, etc. that was the draw for me and now it’s been enshitified, too bad. I’ve been on Lemmy ever since the API culling, I think this concept has got legs and it’s a credible alternative.

Maybe those are the subreddits to inhabit but they will inevitably devolve into content and moderation that serves the lowest common denominator as they grow past ~100k subscribers. That seems to be the case generally, whatever the platform. The scale motivates dysfunctional behaviour and we have to either accept it or move on. I feel better off social media in general but miss the discussion.

Deception on the scale they are proposing with this bot experiment would be a disaster for personal relationships, it’s definitely not okay. I think of those subreddits as a type of entertainment, it’s not my thing but I understand how people are titillated by stories of personal trauma. It was one of the many reasons I permanently abandoned Reddit after fifteen years, it has become a cesspit of bullshit. Some people like rolling about in that stuff, others don’t understand it’s shit.

I don’t know what your experience is on Reddit but mine came to be that what I was reading couldn’t be trusted. I remember stumbling across a post on some technical subject that I happen to understand very well and couldn’t believe the twaddle that was advanced in the comments with utter conviction and certainty. It got me thinking about all the things I had read and just accepted because I know nothing about them. This is our information landscape, for better or worse.

Why should it be any different in a role playing scenario? These platforms are motivating engagement and people love an emotional story and so that is presented to us. If we loved true stories more, we would get them instead. I don’t think there’s any malice intended, we’re getting what we want because morons love their feels over their knowledge. It’s the reason the Americans have Trump and Elon and antivax, these people inhabit social media but it is the last thing they should turn to for truth because they are dumb as a sack of rocks and are getting played, shorty.

What difference does it make if you’re talking to a bot? We never meet our interlocutors anyway. Would these people have the same reaction if it were revealed they were talking to a role playing person because I’m pretty sure we’ve already done that many times over.

I can understand this sort of thing among the elderly but I’ve met ablebodied engineers who don’t understand how to computer. The awesome thing is that they don’t take advice, they just Dunning Kruger their way through.

Self post obfuscated links and references to Lemmy.

Make it enough of a challenge that only the curious users are sufficiently motivated.

???

Profit.

Why is my dog going nuts? Another victim of AI slop.

If you think about, the benevolent dictator model of governance is pretty much the best type of hierarchy. It avoids the indecision of a democracy, the corruption of oligarchy and the tyranny of autocracy.

Rare to see examples of this form, especially at large scale. One notable exception is Thailand, a country that is one of a handful that has never been colonised. The Thai people revere their king but they also have a democratic process, which occasionally comes under some corrective influence, backed by the army. It’s definitely not a tyranny but it’s not a democracy either.

One year after a rodent invasion, battled through endless setbacks and filth to finish my loft boarding last week. The pièce de résistance was finally laying all the boards and having an electrical problem. Urgh.

On the upside, the house is warmer thanks to an extra 200mm of insulation and the usable loft area has been tripled to 45m²

There are some examples of buyers exploiting the returns policy for expensive items. The buyer initiates a return of item but never sends it, gets item and refund.

I showed penus. Now there is restraining order.

Using Reddit will give you aids

Dude