4Robato

@4Robato@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do you not feel overwhelmed using Mastodon?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you follow a generic hashtag it quickly becomes too much, what I do is follow people and very niche hashtags that I know it won’t bring that much content into the feed but that I’m interested in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky does federation-washing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you really don’t care that much just go to Mastodon and leave bluesky as there is a better decentralized place already. If everyone on bluesky went to Mastodon instead the Fediverse would get a lot more attention and get better too.

  Specially seeing you in Lemmy, why did you leave reddit then (I’m assuming you did sorry if it’s not the case)? For me was precisely to not give that much power to a single compan6and this applies lots of things not just twitter. Centralizing power is bad and bluesky is exactly that at the end.

  I want to support people that really tries to solve this issues and not just people who takes this as an opportunity to be the next Elon Musk, ups I mean twitter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results | This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  First of all, as long as it doesn’t replace search I’m fine with more options, I don’t like when a company forces me stuff, that’s it. I just think this is pointing to a future where search disappears and I don’t quite like that.

  You might dislike a direct answer but young people don’t. The design of the applications can encourage certain types of behaviors, can spread misinformation and promote racism as we have seen in many social media now.

  Things like Instagram and TikTok stress me out by the speed they show content and I could conclude no one will use those but then you see the new generations and how they even listen to music there, just the chorus of a song and go to the next one. This way of consuming information is being promoted by how the apps are designed; it is no coincidence that depression is increasing among young people.

  You can say that in principle people can use more responsibly this types of social media, but that’s not the reality when we have algorithms trying to maximize the time we spend on the phone. Also, how do you know that companies don’t add biases to LLMs? Turns out Gorg (the LLM on twitter) they have added to the prompt to not criticize Elon or Trump. That’s the current problems of LLMs is that we don’t have context and even if there is context, if you have to put effort into it people won’t do it. This happens to scientific articles where people never check the sources, imagine with other stuff…

  I honestly like LLMs and I think they are fascinating and very useful in a lot of situations! And efforts like Perplexity gives me a bit more faith than google just throwing an LLM that suggests to eat rocks. And while you might see that eating rocks shouldn’t be done, there’s this bias that can be build behind any LLM that affects in a way that will be hard to avoid or notice. Same way current algorithms affects us more than we think they do and polarizes opinions.

  I mean will see where this goes, I just want companies to take the matter serious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You knew it was coming: Google begins testing AI-only search results | This version of Google won't show you the 10 blue links at all—Gemini completely takes over the results in AI Mode⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s simply that getting a direct answer is easier than reading different forums with different views and come up with your idea. That doesn’t mean people wants google search to stop searching. We have gemini, if I want to use gemini. I don’t get why everything has to be AI. We can have multiple tools, not everything out there are nails.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looks like loops by pixelfed has an update⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They are still testing it and it’s not open source yet so no, no one can open instances. You can join the queue: loops.video but the android app has to be side loaded.

  But before saying to people I would wait until it launches officially.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I spent the last year working on the Fediverse. Here's what I've learned.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Very clear and bice video!

  With that said, I was a bit disappointed when I joined the Fediverse about the interaction between social medias. I usually used reddit and very little twitter and I was excited when I saw the Fediverse and that you could even follow from other Social media but from lemmy you cannot follow people from mastodon and from mastodon you can technically follow communities but you see all replies and the feed becomes overwhelming while in Lemmy I choose if I open the comment section for a specific entry.

  So I ended up with the same number of accou ts on the fediverse than in centralized platforms which is fine but I think Fediverse sells this too much. For me decentralization is a good enough point to stay.

  And about the AI thingy and the feeds, I think we are just seeing the early Fediverse same as early internet but I’m sure in the future we will have apps that create a feed for you if you want to so to me that’s something that se also shouldn’t sell as a positive OR negative. I think this is something that will simply change as the Fediverse grows.

  But this is not a criticism of the video! Just my personal thoughts :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What do you think about centralised clients?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly it’s a hard topic and I keep changing my mind on it. But currently this is my view:

  If you point everyone to one place decentralization loses the meaning. I think people need to learn what decentralization is. It’s an important issue to be honest and people have to be on board knowing what they are doing. It will be hard for sure but otherwise if a new centralized competitor comes into town, why wouldn’t they switch if they don’t care?

  At the moment twitter is the most affected social media but people has to understand that this isn’t just about twitter or reddit or whatever but about our rights to choose and decide where we want our data and who handles that. If people don’t know the system they won’t be aware of the issues.

  With the Fediverse I’ve seen a lot of people worried about privacy and so on because they have to choose and suddenly they think about all the consequences. That’s a good think that hopefully will make them think twice about joining the next çnew centralized system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A language is not a topic that’s why it makes sense and rules on servers that are on your language (and probably your own country) probably will have rules more aligned with your vision too. It makes sense on a moderation point of view.

  A server that is about technology or art, doesn’t say anything about how they might allow their users to behave. I just think it’s misleading and the focus of a server shouldn’t be about things you like but the way you like to be treated and how they manage your data which is at the end what they handle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s a bad idea to have each server have one topic which I know is often how Fediverse is sold but I think it’s not good.

  I don’t know you but I have more than one interest and I don’t want a server to be about one interest and that’s it. I want the server to be fair and have rules about discrimination and so on. I can choose the topics I want to follow thanks to federation that’s the whole point, the server should focus on the moderation side.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is Dead. Lemmy is Dead. Everything is Dead.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember in reddit following nextduckinglevel to simply be a bit more up to date with people commenting on this types of things and after that I started to enjoy less reddit, this type of communities make reddit similar to other social media liked Instagram and I don’t enjoy seeing extreme things all the time or people just trying to get the attention. I stop following the community after a while and the experience got better for me.

  I don’t see much different between reddit and lemmy besides lemmy being in the fediverse thus it’s a plus on my book. But you decide what communities you follow, if you are not enjoying it stop following what makes you not enjoy the platform, this is not tiktok where they put videos on you face, you choose what type of content you want to see and follow things you want to follow not things you should follow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is Dead. Lemmy is Dead. Everything is Dead.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why people say seperate instances amplify echo chambers? I can follow any community I want, it might be true that similar people go to similar instances but then you can see the others without noticing what instance they belong. In lemmy you follow communities and not people so I feel this happens even less since everyone comments on any community.

  And as a site note I think the internet showed that putting everyone in once place is not always healthy for everyone.

  The internet should respect different cultures and not try to homogenize everything.