tad_lispy
@tad_lispy@lemm.ee
- Submitted 2 days ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 28 comments
- Comment on Breaking Free From Social Media Silos With The Fediverse 4 days ago:
Sure. It’s in our nature to surround ourselves with like-minded people. Back in the old days, people would subscribe to a newspaper, watch TV and listen to radio stations, or go to pubs with folks they felt comfortable with, and that would often lead to gruopthink. There is only so much we can do about it with different platforms. The rest is up to us, individually and collectively. Being polite, open minded, thoughtful and critical takes effort. But it’s also in our nature.
- Comment on Breaking Free From Social Media Silos With The Fediverse 4 days ago:
What you wrote is probably true, but it’s not the end of the story. Ownership model of corporate social media creates incentives to polarize and divide people. It drives engagement and creates moats. Also, billionaire owners of those media have their own political goals, and are happy to use the platforms they own to advance them.
- Submitted 4 days ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 2 months ago:
Technically? Not very much, but I’m handy with NixOS. The hardest part was the configuration of a mail server. I should probably blog about the setup process. But of course the real work is attracting people and keeping them engaged.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 2 months ago:
Recently I’ve created a private forum and so far I’m very happy with it. It’s nice that our discussions are private, keeping data gobblers, programmatic advertisers, grifters and other schmucks like this out in the cold.
To be clear, I’m advertising the idea, not membership.
- Comment on How to Avoid US-Based Digital Services—and Why You Might Want To 2 months ago:
Is this coming from Wired magazine, aka the press organ of silicon valley? Big wows.
- Comment on Nearly half of U.S. adults believe LLMs are smarter than they are. 2 months ago:
If we are talking about American adults, I guess they might be right.