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- Comment on AI-created “virtual influencers” are stealing business from humans 10 months ago:
It seems reasonable to me that you could admire somebody without thinking that they’re a friend or family. That’s what being a fan is. Some of the more extreme fans are going to want to know intimate details about the object of their admiration. I don’t see how it’s different from any other obsessive hobbyist.
- Comment on AI-created “virtual influencers” are stealing business from humans 10 months ago:
I don’t understand your comment, especially the last sentence. Who thinks that celebrities are their friends?
- Comment on NASA has some explaining to do 10 months ago:
I wonder why atheists do this when there’s so much real Christian stuff to laugh at.
- Comment on Is the word Alphabet literally just a conjunction made from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet? 10 months ago:
True, but it does have a lot of Latinate words.
- Comment on Is the word Alphabet literally just a conjunction made from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet? 10 months ago:
English has “abecedarian”, which can mean “alphabetical”, “rudimentary”, “elementary”, “novice” or “beginner”.
- Comment on Is the word Alphabet literally just a conjunction made from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet? 10 months ago:
The Latin word is “abecedarium”. I don’t know why English adopted the Greek word.
- Comment on What was the original use of the ‘☠️’ emoji 10 months ago:
Yyaaaarrrrr
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
I am a banana!
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Carl Sagan talks about this in the first episode of Cosmos. Eratosthenes proved the Earth was round centuries ago. It’s really cool. I recommend checking this clip out.
- Comment on The Fediverse is working just as intended. 10 months ago:
I’m kind of happy as long as big tech is not running it
Wait for it. It’s coming. That’s why Facebook is doing this. We’re in the “embrace” phase of “embrace, extend, extinguish”.
I don’t see how to avoid it, unless the courts step in. The only reason why we’re using the World Wide Web instead of the Microsoft Wide Web is because the US sued Microsoft and won.
- Comment on What's a word that means a common saying which is arguably untrue? 10 months ago:
They don’t.
- Comment on What's a word that means a common saying which is arguably untrue? 10 months ago:
So if I potato, you can ottoman?
- Comment on What's a word that means a common saying which is arguably untrue? 10 months ago:
The meaning of a word doesn’t change just because you use it incorrectly.
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 11 months ago:
If meta was to pull the plug on federation it wouldn’t kill ActivityPub, there would still be millions of us here.
It’s not about pulling the plug. It’s about introducing proprietary features that break communication, forcing people off of an independent server and onto Threads.
If most of your IRL friends are on Threads and your experience with them has gotten janky due to Meta fucking with the protocol, it’s going to be very difficult to not switch over to Threads.
Oh, and good luck trying to get your friends to switch over to some indie server they’ve never heard of. If you can do that, then you should run for president.
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 11 months ago:
Both are open protocols for communication over the Internet. Both have been adopted by a large corporate interest.
Now, how are they different?
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 11 months ago:
Could somebody explain what “fedipact” means?
- Comment on 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!! 11 months ago:
“The flood of crap” isn’t what people should be worried about. They should be worried about Meta embracing, extending, and extinguishing the Fediverse. There’s a good article about this here. People are worried about the wrong things and don’t realize what’s at stake.
- Comment on 11 months ago:
They won’t. They already said that they won’t unless there’s “trouble”. Whatever that means.
- Comment on 11 months ago:
Why are they defederating? Is that what you’re asking?
- Comment on How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) 11 months ago:
Well, that really puts things in perspective.
At Microsoft, this strategy was called “embrace, extend, extinguish”, but it’s important to realize that it isn’t a practice that’s exclusive to Microsoft.
- Comment on Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users 11 months ago:
The article says that this isn’t happening for all users, which indicates that they’re still experimenting with it and haven’t fully rolled it out yet.
- Comment on Can videogames trigger a heart attack? 11 months ago:
I think this whole thread is some awesome guerilla marketing for Tarkov.
- Comment on Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic -- even in non-political subreddits 11 months ago:
It’s worth studying even things that seem obvious, because sometimes what seems obvious is wrong. And the only way you’re going to find out is if you study it.
- Comment on Politically-engaged Redditors tend to be more toxic -- even in non-political subreddits 11 months ago:
I don’t know how to counteract that.
Simple. You don’t. When I’m debating, I’m usually not trying to convince the person I’m debating with. I’m trying to convince a disinterested third party who reads the exchange later.
- Comment on Meta’s new AI image generator was trained on 1.1 billion Instagram and Facebook photos 11 months ago:
What happened to them with underage users? I think I’m out of the loop on this one.
- Comment on Meta’s new AI image generator was trained on 1.1 billion Instagram and Facebook photos 11 months ago:
I guess so. Why?
- Comment on why am I told that I'm a child on the internet?? I'm 20!! 11 months ago:
The brain doesn’t finish developing until 25, but society treats people like they’re full adults when they’re 18 (and lets them drive when they’re 16!)
- Comment on A perfect visualisation of a wasteful system 11 months ago:
They would unironically feed and shelter the homeless.
How would you ironically feed and shelter the homeless?
- Comment on Funny how it became bathroom use and imaginary things drag queens do... 11 months ago:
Aren’t we all supposed to be dead by now from the poisonous vaccine? This has got to be the slowest-working poison I’ve ever seen.
- Comment on Glad it's almost over 11 months ago:
That doesn’t sound like self-denial. What are you denying? That sounds like an indulgence.