@atomicpoet @medium @dotnet @fediversenews I for one welcome Microdon / Mastosoft

@atomicpoet @medium @dotnet @fediversenews it’d be bad business to not market hosting to mastodon instances during a boom. Co-op still needs to host somewhere and pay a bill.

Wait and see if they get into integrating or coding for it I guess.

Or ultimately, see who gets onto whatever standards boards exist.

@atomicpoet Has anyone done any cost estimates on this? Can’t help but think most would be better off just going to @mastohost (or similar).

@atomicpoet @pixelfed fantastic, congratulations!

@atomicpoet @pixelfed @fediversenews @dansup ✅ done 💸

@atomicpoet @pixelfed @fediversenews
these are really good news!

Here's my favourite update about #PhanpySocial: grouped notifications make everything so much easier to read and track.

I can see mentions amidst all the noise of favourites and boosts.

To me, that's a critical feature!

@atomicpoet @cheeaun @fediversenews

Holy crap it's good!! Thanks for the pointer.

@atomicpoet @cheeaun @fediversenews grouped notifications are the best feature and every fedi apo should have them (as an option at least)

@atomicpoet resumes generated by AI, evaluated by AI hiring proxies. AI does the work, AI grades the work.

openai gets a shitload of money, tech jobs evaporate :D

@atomicpoet LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft, who got rid of their AI ethics team recently. Presumably because they kept saying problematic things like “This is bad, we should not do this.”

@atomicpoet great, can't wait for the faux-inspirational "I hired a candidate with a minor shortcoming" posts to come at an even faster rate now.

@atomicpoet
why are you surprised or disturbed? That is only software, it is not a thinking brain with conscience, it is software trained to reply friendly, it's meaningless. It would be creepy if it was a living being, but that is just a program trained to recognise sentencies and reply, it's a collection of words.
Is the result creepy? No. It is logical since the AI has not been trained as a underage tutor.
Creepy is thinking of software as living hing with self awareness and ethic.

@atomicpoet
Ok, the creepy factor in those chat screenshots has nothing on the creepy factor in the thread replies.
Yes I'm judging.

@atomicpoet chatbots are completely naive unless programmed to avoid giving certain answers which can seem absurd or shocking. You can program them to say anything you want to satisfy your religious beliefs etc but that’s basically a kind of lobotomy.

@atomicpoet They've been mighting for a whole year now.

@atomicpoet didn’t they already do that 2 years ago?

@atomicpoet and their trend chasing is so glaringly obvious to the most untrained of eyes.

@atomicpoet That's the problem with companies obsessed with finding "the next big thing" instead of making quality products or services.

Don't worry about making something good, just look at what people want RIGHT NOW.

Ugh, I think I accidentally ranted about the publishing industry.

@atomicpoet it’s the curse of riches - much as with Google, when you have a gold mine in your backyard that can fund virtually anything you want, it’s incredibly hard to find the kind of discipline that is necessary to build truly new things. And the most innovative people often don’t want to work for a big company- they like taking big risks that are hard to do surrounded by layers of management.

@atomicpoet nope

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog

@atomicpoet

We should not block until we understand!

We wait and see what they build first. And *then* we block, once they have inevitably built a data-hoover with no escape hatches.

Until they build it we reserve judgement, even though we know exactly what they are going to build really.

@atomicpoet Could be good. Could be bad. I’m inclines to believe it’s better to connect more communities. There certainly be a sustained effort from Meta to exploit these communities but people will have the choice to dump Meta without dumping their social graph.

@atomicpoet @torvalds @fediversenews
Wow!

@atomicpoet “low resource consumption” That’s appealing. I’d like public transit and airports to run accounts which post status updates. Passengers could look up the status with accounts dedicated to numbered routes/flights. Plemora could be just right for that.

@atomicpoet @torvalds @fediversenews I noticed the use of Akkoma also.

Except it’s not just Linus. The instance appears to be a Linux kernel instance more or less exclusive to kernel maintainers.

To my naive eyes, I’d be lying if this doesn’t increase Akkoma’s reputation. It’d be interesting to hear their reasoning behind the choice.

https://social.kernel.org/about

@atomicpoet We have to read again Mark Zuckerberg's words, he actually said: "we will de-center the socials from a net work loss", not "we will make a decentralized social network" ;-)

@atomicpoet

If it was, it was not very successful.

@atomicpoet The activity pub announcement isn't big enough news to distract from a 10k layoff. Outside of tech and fediverse circles it was a minor splash. The layoff news was a far reaching story.

@atomicpoet Here's the account of its main developer ( @edhelas ) for an example in action: https://mov.im/?blog/edhelas

@atomicpoet
I went to have a look and it's certainly an interesting idea but it's not responding now.

@atomicpoet #movim is on mastodon at @movim

@atomicpoet Well, then, maybe next time android installs it, I'll give it a try before uninstalling.

@atomicpoet please explain more for all the dummies out there. Me.

@atomicpoet Does Matrix really count as being part of the Fediverse? If yes, then so would email, right?

@atomicpoet @pixelfed @matrix @dansup @mike @fediversenews I think Facebook will go the way of AOL when they open up, just like AOL did. It will no longer matter what your domain is--you will be able to interact with users and their content whatever the source, and Facebook will no longer have the "everyone is there" advantage. Unfortunately, I still forsee people gravitating to accounts on Google or Outlook, but the content they access can now be housed anywhere (for better or worse).

@atomicpoet @pixelfed @matrix @dansup @mike @fediversenews

Just block all of metas instances.

@atomicpoet I haven’t used Facebook products for many years but know many who do. I do doubt though that many of them will pay to use Meta products if there is a free version regardless of the supposed benefits of paying for verification.

@atomicpoet I'm definitely never paying any social media company every month to verify my identity.

I didn't even wanna use my real name in the first place.

@atomicpoet

I think it is MKBHD on #Youtube that looked into these services. #Twitter and Youtube both only have a 10% hit ratio with paid users. Spotify has the highest with some expected number (will look for a source)

Basically, #Facebook will only get 10% paid users. That's 100M, if they are lucky. So Mark, y'all better charge them $20.

@atomicpoet @fediversenews
The Federal Reserve will be happy. Don’t they want two million out of work before they stop raising rates? 🙄

@atomicpoet @fediversenews @TexasObserver this certainly seems like meta is dying

@atomicpoet @fediversenews Supposedly, last fall the total employee count was about 87,000. So significant cuts.

I know I’m an edge case, but @pixelfed’s iOS app becomes all the more awesome when you run your own server.

Why is that? Sweet, sweet freedom!

@atomicpoet @pixelfed

Any news when #SpaceHost will go live?

@atomicpoet Synology has done a great job to make servers accessible for non-tech people. The roadblock is still there on the software side of the apps you install :(

@atomicpoet Although I get why this is not ready for the average user, having recently rebuilt a self-hosted media server using https://yams.media and going from blank OS to functional in an hour, we're getting closer and closer. This used to be something I would clear a weekend for, and then expect to be tuning for the next week off and on.Hell, even updates to stuff like this might take an afternoon. now i can just do “yams restart" and my updates are handled...

@atomicpoet The admins who manage my server seem to be the right people for the job. Managing Postgres with large number and all the storage needs is a lot of work. I considered setting up my own server and have managed servers in the past, but really don’t want the extra work. I hope good cloud products are launched similar to the Wordpress model. It would be very popular.

@atomicpoet interesting no? @coachtony is moving medium to use ActivityPub, Kevin Systrom (most folks know him from Instagram but before that he was our intern at Odeo) is working on an ai powered social news app, @blaine is working on fission.codes and did lots of other stuff. Florian did Radicle decentralized GitHub, Jack got bluesky funded and is also funding nostr.

@atomicpoet @rabble
They were already thinking about it years ago.