RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@juandesant/117455948523647305
My working presumption is that all digital tech is no longer liberal, libertarian, democratic or whatever, but from here on in only feudal.
And AI, amongst other things, was a cultural litmus test for whether or not we had the immune system to prevent it (narrator: they didn’t).
Seeing some only recently start thinking about how a cluster of #AI agents with shared resources and “prompts”/“goals” might lead to some kind of intelligence beyond the stochastic parrot thing (no doubt prompted by the hugging face thing)
For me, this isn’t surprising (and anti-AI people need to move on to the big hard problems here).
I found myself with a dumb little thought that’s maybe worth sharing:
No one invented (or will invent) AGI.
Capitalism has invented AGI.
It doesn’t belong to a person, it belongs to a system. Its body is an economy, its ecosystem is LinkedIn.
The house of tech lords have their dragons and we’re now stuck in a neo feudal landscape.
My latest signal on how the anti-AI situation is going (and this isn’t about BlueSky) …
There’s talk over there now about how people are drifting to X/Twitter because BlueSky is too #antiAI and all the “useful”/“interesting” #AI talk and engagement is over on X/twitter.
There are probably a few feelings to be had about this.
It’s useful I think to highlight I’ve seen the same here.
It’s also useful to highlight what I think people aren’t recognising enough … that this AI thing may well be a significant fracturing of society. Its very nature is to affect and be involved in many/most/all aspects of society, and yet there are strong feelings about it because of its deep implications.
A society that differs so strongly on something like that is a fractured one. More fractured, I suspect, than people recognise.
If the groups were large enough and their commitments strong enough, we’d get religious schism style animosity. Which may come.
In reality, I think us anti-AI folk are just going to have to get used to living in a cyberpunk dystopia that everyone sucks in like cigarettes.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@nexus_domovoi/117020326053162542
Ummm, is this shit real here now?
Is computing technology “civilised”?
I keep coming back to critiquing computing tech generally (as we know it) when critiquing #AI. And landed on this question. Of course “civilised” Is open and loaded, but I think that’s helpful. And of course, we could ask this just of #LLM #AI.
But what of computing generally and practically? Is it “civilising” to bury information and calculation in the ephemeral charges of a black box rather than a robust physical structure? What of its constant need to be updated? Was the very sense of “magic” always a warning? Was it always a trap in need of careful containment like fire?
Dunno, but this new security situation makes me think we can’t actually put the genie back in the bottle.
Once #LLM s have to be deeply involved in the pipeline, as suggested by this article ( and arguably common sense in a fight fire with fire way), that seems like a seed from which it will permanently grow into the whole computing world (of it hasn’t already).
Productivity tech bros are one thing. But the fight over security is another (right?). And cementing a position as the industry standard there feels like the first part of the hype curve settling in something that will stick.
It’s a stark image: wrangling all of this LLM output because of you don’t someone else will and use it against you. Honestly made start to ask the simple maybe question … do I want computers in my life anymore, or, especially, the internet. If the Internet is the digital realm, I’m naturally out of my league as an organic. The more dominated it is by #AI / #LLM s , the less safe, comfortable and desirable it has to be for me, surely.
https://blog.himanshuanand.com/2026/05/the-90-day-disclosure-policy-is-dead/
Mother fucking 2 year #lemmy cake day.
For me, lemmy was the actual start of the fediverse experience.
A reddit/forum style platform on the same protocol as Twitter style platforms that even kinda interacted with each other (first time seeing which was genuinely wonderful).
Since, I’ve always said the Fedi should do more group based things, and I stand by that. I even think Reddit/forum/group-based platforms are a better story on AP than microblogging and I’d wager they could stick around longer than the Twitter clones.
Either way, whenever I come back to the Fedi, I’m usually heading for lemmy / #threadiverse first. Reddit culture aside, I find it a much nicer way to find my people.
I hope all the best for the other platforms too… #kbin , #mbin , #piefed , #nodebb (and #friendica too)!
Can anyone parse this for me?
True decentralisation happens on #mastodon because it’s networked with Threads, a giant monolithic “instance” whose users are unlikely to ever leave?
I mean it’s good for people who want that network connection here, but it seems very strange to trumpet this as the only “true” decentralisation.
For Hachydermians: BlueSky’s honouring of Nova:
Is there any solid thinking around the intersection between open source philosophy and the current practice of LLMs/AIs?
It struck me today that LLMs maybe the final means by which capitalistic software consumes open source, in a way open source isn’t prepared for, perhaps in a way that’s a lesson for how and how not to fight capitalism?
I’m by no means on top of this space though.
Latest in my personal experiences of "you never know to where or how your #fediverse posts will be federated".
https://hachyderm.io/@RangerJosie@lemmy.world/113082651933853659
My mastodon post getting a reply from a lemmy user. Mastodon-lemmy integration is not good, so seeing it happen passive was weird.
Instead, what happened here (AFAICT):
* An #mbin "magazine" sucked up my post due to a hashtag (I think)
* Added it (for some unclear reason) as a post to it's equivalent of a community
* Then federated that to #lemmy as such
And yes, I know there's #mbin
1. I'm talking about instances here, not platforms
2. Word is that mbin's lead dev is supporting lunduke who's known for transphobia (see lemmy comments here: https://lemmy.ml/post/18935315/12861600)
The situation may be more nuanced than that or incomplete, but it's there.
So, kbin.social (and likely #kbin itself) is dead.
I only joined the #fediverse in the "twitter migration" and *already* have 2 accounts that died on instances that were "flagships" but just disappeared (kbin & firefish).
No blame or shame for the devs or anything. They tried which is much more than most of us.
But whoever "decided" that true mobile identity isn't a priority for #activitypub / fediverse, probably fucked up.
Why hasn't the fediverse grown more? Instances & immobile accounts!?
I think I disagree.
"Fediverse" is a good and catchy term that's kinda caught on as a neologism
Federation is the key mechanism here and it's different from the web. The only web like things on the fediverse are ... well the "web" parts (links, HTML etc). Meanwhile platform interop is not a success story here.
"OpenWeb" is way too ambiguous and broad.
"Open Social" would be better IMO. But "Fediverse" is here and captures everything it needs to, incl the quirky user unfriendly parts.
Did #julialang end up kinda stalling or at least plateau-ing lower than hoped?
I know it's got its community and dedicated users and has continued development.
But without being in that space, and speculating now at a distance, it seems it might be an interesting case study in a tech/lang that just didn't have landing spot it could arrive at in time as the tech-world & "data science" reshuffled while julia tried to grow ... ?
Can a language ever solve a "two language" problem?
Single protocol federation may already be an ageing idea.
Openvibe combining AP, ATP and Nostr. A bridge bn masto and BlueSky. NeoDB considering a dual-stack compatibility with both AP and ATP from the ground up.
The whole “protocols not platforms” notion extends naturally into “multi-protocols not platforms” the moment a protocol becomes a kind of platform.
I hear talk of the loss and death of content on the internet ... has anyone spoken about the loss and link-rot caused by the account and tweet deletions that happened in the #twitter migration?
It happens to me occasionally where I'll dig up something on the internet with links to twitter comments as evidence of things happening ... and they're completely dead links.
Seems like a long-term phenomenon of the whole thing worth considering.
I know someone who’s replaced online recipes completely and joyfully with #AI / #chatgpt
No ads or bs stories. Just prompts and recipes *and* iterative interactive modification.
Which makes sense, cooking is often fuzzy and creative which aligns well with AI’s abilities and limitations.
A good example IMO of how this bubble will burst (prob badly) but LLMs/generative AIs are likely here to stay