Melvin_Ferd
@Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 3 hours ago:
Yea but to do that you need decent channels to coordinate and you all deleted all your accounts and the network you built with it. It would take 10 years just to recreate it
- Comment on Wikipeter was the founder of the site in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library 21 hours ago:
Why not just use chatgpt instead
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 2 days ago:
That’s not a thing
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 2 days ago:
They’re obsessed. When there’s manufactured outrage it’ll start out as sensible but quickly evolves into the radicals that spew what you see up top. Ai and chat bots have issues but the push to convince the public to hate it was heavy on lemmy. So now there’s these radicals that are living in their own toxic fantasy.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 2 days ago:
I for sure believe they do. Like the amount of applications that came out with all these features only to have them rolled back because public backlash or because they wanted to put it behind a pay wall has always pissed me off. Look at Bing photo search. When it first showed up you could use it for opsec and tracing the origin of suspect memes. So if I felt something was astro turfed or a user was a bot, I could verify with Bing search. Now I can’t even use it to search a logo because they gutted it. But there’s no way I don’t think that behind closed doors this search isn’t in the hands of political firms or law offices or government.
- Comment on A tale of two social platforms 3 days ago:
I fully believe the issue is that regular people stopped voting and engaging. Everybody became passive except for people trying to push an agenda. If people stayed engaged and continued to vote, they would have drowned them out.
- Comment on A tale of two social platforms 4 days ago:
Lemmy is all AI propaganda
- Comment on A tale of two social platforms 4 days ago:
Get rid of mods too. The whole fucking point was to have the community moderate with voting. Somehow it all turned into mods running things and it all went to shit
- Comment on Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI 4 days ago:
Oh yea, let’s continue doing fucking nothing then. Things just work out
- Comment on Salesforce regrets firing 4000 experienced staff and replacing them with AI 5 days ago:
Why don’t developers spend a few hours a week working together to ruin the Salesforce image just to make an example of them to never do this.
- Comment on A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet (39C3) 5 days ago:
To stop enshittification, we all need to chase away any attempt to capitalize on the internet and get back to the roots of preventing data scarcity.
- Comment on Anti-Palestinian Billionaires Can Now Control What TikTok Users See 1 week ago:
What about in the opposite direction. Isn’t AI a tool that can be used to create, analyze and research. Which is why I think it’s pushed very hard for the left to alienate themselves from it. It gives anyone who embraced it a big advantage.
- Comment on Anti-Palestinian Billionaires Can Now Control What TikTok Users See 1 week ago:
That’s numbers are important. They can’t suppress it all. Like people put more effort trying to get AI to quote Hitler than they do trying to fight for something like this. Why is there this asymmetry of effort between the political factions.
- Comment on Praise them 1 week ago:
Hey, do you guys want to organize and concentrate memes and content to push back against the growing group of nazis that spread by creating content and memes.
No no no we can’t manage that type of organization. It’s silly. Back to posting about ~beans~ ~moths~ vegetables
- Comment on Praise them 1 week ago:
- Throw crap into a pan, heat and pair with favorite canned coke.
- Comment on Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group 1 week ago:
We should stop pretending piracy is some fringe problem instead of a pressure valve. When artists and creators use the internet primarily to sell and self-promote, they’re still participating in the same system even if they’re not Facebook or Spotify. Scale doesn’t change the outcome.
We can’t have the internet we claim to want and treat it like a digital busking space. Those two ideas don’t coexist. Once monetization enters, everything starts bending toward the same endgame, tracking, ads, artificial walls, data collection, subscriptions. It always converges there.
Content creators are part of the enshittification problem. Privacy is a stopgap response to it. A way people push back against a system that turns sharing into commerce. It’s unfortunate, but it’s the result of trying to force a market model onto a space that was built for sharing ideas and collaboration, not sales.
- Comment on Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group 1 week ago:
I get why this feels personal, but I think there’s a deeper problem with the framing. The internet was never meant to be anyone’s marketplace. It was meant to be a place for people to share ideas and work freely, not a storefront.
The moment we decided the internet should function like a sales platform, artificial scarcity became inevitable. That’s when art turned into “content,” and creativity got optimized for algorithms instead of people. Freedom and monetization can’t really coexist online the business model always wins.
- Comment on Anti-Palestinian Billionaires Can Now Control What TikTok Users See 1 week ago:
Back in the day this just meant that people would mobilize and flood the platform with pro Palestinian content just to troll.
- Comment on Why isn’t "Democrats would never get away with this" seen as a problem for the left?” 1 week ago:
I don’t think people who aren’t cheating get to compete at that level so they wouldn’t get the chance to ask. They don’t get the opportunity
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- Comment on Everyone is so close to grasping your unique vision! 2 weeks ago:
Why not just use the methods that are proven to work which are none of those things you mentioned?
- Comment on Everyone is so close to grasping your unique vision! 2 weeks ago:
Oh shit!
This is exactly how the MAGA movement consolidated. Crazy to watch it on the left.
- Comment on YSK that Stanford scientists examined what happens when people stop using social media. They found deactivating Facebook and Instagram significantly improved users' emotional well-being and happiness 2 weeks ago:
Why wouldn’t they? We all took ourselves offline. What other content would be left for them to be exposed to?
- Comment on YSK that Stanford scientists examined what happens when people stop using social media. They found deactivating Facebook and Instagram significantly improved users' emotional well-being and happiness 2 weeks ago:
Only if you want to tell others like you to get off of it. The way people not like you have unfettered access to eyes an ears of younger generations who will eventually be in charge and have zero reference to any of the issues you care about but will know a tremendous number of views you oppose. That seems to be the pattern with a lot of us lately. Convincing each other to get offline. Big push for it.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 2 weeks ago:
I want it
- Comment on Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline 4 weeks ago:
This comment is fucking insane lol
- Comment on Might not be efficient, but at least it... Uhhh, wait, what good does it provide again? 5 weeks ago:
Isn’t it more like they’re comparing all the hamburgers and everything else you have eating since you were born?
That’s what they’re doing with AI enegry usages isn’t it? I thought it was including the training which is where the greatest costs come from vs just daily running.
- Comment on Why do Republicans hate the poor so much? 1 month ago:
I would say the argument is that they feel they’re paying more for people who don’t deserve it. That the government and these businesses are constantly subsidizing by taking their pay cheque and handing it to people who refuse to work or decided to do drugs or making other bad life choices. The right tends to view things at an individual level whereas the left view things as a group. Both are right and wrong. If you’re paid $60,000 a year and some goes to a safe injection site, more goes to some carbon tax that nobody is really tracking, more goes to some dark slush fund nobody knows about. Over the years we all just get bitter and angry
- Comment on I can't believe they still push this fear narrative myth about "tainted" Halloween candy. It's the Satanic Panic that refuses to die. 1 month ago:
Nothing I said implies I think I’m important.
- Comment on I can't believe they still push this fear narrative myth about "tainted" Halloween candy. It's the Satanic Panic that refuses to die. 1 month ago:
Great, thanks.