@Remittancegirl

@mfeir

I agree that what we need is NOT climate destroying LLMs, but time and space to teach one another how to express oneself and how there's many techniques to try and ways to approach. Literacy is dropping, and fixing that will help with expressing one self. An LLM is not capable of ever teaching that skill. Instead it makes the problem worse.

I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it. You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it.

But I am a hater, and I will not be polite. The machine is disgusting and we should break it. The people who build it are vapid shit-eating cannibals glorifying ignorance. I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.

– Anthony Moser, I Am An #AI Hater https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html

#NoAI

Or the Digg Effect

Or being slashdotted.

Similar, except those are caused by users visiting a link, whereas the Fediverse issue is federated servers gathering info before users even see a link.

How many servers are we talking about? 10,000 ?

Is this the same thing as the “Reddit hug of death”?

i’m feeling less ambivalent about those reddit repost bots for a moment

So we need people to just mass post links to bad websites, is what you’re saying.

Sure would.

The fediverse is nice people and great tech, with a marketing problem.

Doesn’t look like we’ll ever see the source code of this thing either

@neil That's the beauty of base2

みすきー、ここは？みたいな疑問が出る前に答えをくれてて、ほんまありがて​​

With chorizo

I can’t believe that neither of today’s security bombshells have a catchy nickname yet. We should fix that.

Suggestions welcome. I’ll start.
• Fourshadowing
• ParagraPHPain

My guess is they’re trying to take it one step further than the fediverse, still be centralized, still monetize content which they then get a slice of.

it seems like ideally it shouldn’t attempt to preview the link before a user tries to view the content. i guess that would increase latency for users though