We need more feck!

Yes Altman is definitely someone we need to keep an eye on to make sure he doesn’t try to get a copyright assigned to OpenAI for everything their AIs create.

It’s such insanity that supposed liberals are giving any credence to these totally insane and bad faith allegations conservatives are trotting out. These presidents didn’t even say anything sympathetic to Palestine, much less anything antisemitic, they just didn’t crack down on student free speech as much as the right wing wants to.

That’s terrible. How can Firefox usage rates be declining? It seems like every day there’s some new scammy feature being rolled out in all the other browsers.

It’s so funny seeing the people trying to fearmonger about not having enough lithium and other minerals for electric vehicles.

Trains are easy enough to electrify with current technology, no need for batteries.

“I thought things would get worse,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in another text cited in the book. “I thought a lot of my misery was due to leadership more broadly having a thing against me. But … my life has completely transformed. It’s crazy. And it’s that that made me realise it was kind of just [Pelosi] the whole time.”

“Senior members talk to me, [committee] chairs are nice to me, people want to work together,” the congresswoman added. “I’m shocked. I couldn’t even get floor time before.”

Very interesting. Like AOC, I thought that she’d be in trouble under Jeffries, who has a reputation in NYC as someone who is really confrontational with the left, whereas Pelosi is seen as at least sort of progressive. I wonder if the difference has something to do with age - Pelosi is probably more progressive for her age cohort than Jeffries is for his, but she’s just so ancient.

Haha I guess I cannot argue with the Windows-Linux comparison because that’s another situation where I’m ideologically more sympathetic to the user controlled open source model, but am nevertheless a Windows user for the convenience. I don’t really give much weight to ideology over user experience in making these kinds of choices, for better or worse. Sometimes the version I prefer ideologically produces a superior product because of that better outlook, but often the evil corporate version is a superior product because of their greater resources or greater concern with hooking customers or just network effects, and either way I’m getting the one I think is superior. I haven’t even fully left reddit, though my usage is way way down.

I appreciate you less lazy and more willing to inconvenience yourselves in the name of the open software movement people, without you doing that everything would be worse, even for people using the corporate stuff who don’t even know any alternative exists. Cheers

I think that’s a reasonable description of the difference. Algorithms are very valuable tools for surfacing content that I will be interested in but didn’t know to seek out. No matter how many people I follow on Mastodon, it won’t be able to replicate having new interesting people and posts served up to me like that, nor the resulting vibe of everyone seeing a lot of the same viral content.

I started a Mastodon account before bluesky even existed, tried to get into it, was still trying when I got a bluesky account, and then was beat over the head with the superiority of bluesky despite having more of an ideological affinity for the Mastodon project. I still have that account but would be surprising if I started using it more, since the issues with Mastodon are pretty baked into the underlying design.

The metaphor is the comparison of a blogging platform to a bar. Substack is not a bar, it’s a website, hence your description of it as a “Nazi bar” is a metaphor. You’re analogizing how to behave if you own a bar to how to behave if you own a website. The problem with that being a) website and bars are very different and b) you’re not even really describing bars realistically.

I do have a mastodon account but have not found myself using it very much. Bluesky just does a better job of replicating what I liked about twitter. Mastodon seems like it was designed by people who had a bunch of problems with how twitter worked and wanted to implement their own different version of a microblogging platform that unfortunately kills a lot of the virality and “one big chatroom” vibe that made twitter so fun. Lemmy does a much better job of replicating what I liked about reddit.

No idea lol, I’m a bluesky man

That’s a big cost to yourself in exchange for accomplishing nothing, but best of luck I guess.

Not really sure about this bar metaphor - no bar I’ve ever been to has some system to make sure people aren’t Nazis before serving them, but hard to imagine that makes them all “Nazi bars.” And that seems fine - I don’t think I’d want to rely on the political judgment of either bar owners or substack executives to decide who’s worthy of patronizing their business anyway even if it was practical.

What does this mean? You’re boycotting reading blog posts people make via substack?

I decided to keep the original headline. Please validate my faith and respond to the article and not just to the headline.

“More exciting news: around the end of this month, we’ll release a public web interface. With this, you’ll be able to view posts on Bluesky without being logged in on an account.” - huge news, this is critical for making bluesky a plausible place to base your online presence.

How do I trick my computer into thinking I’m in Europe?