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spaduf , 4 months ago to Fediverse in Content Nation Backlash Highlights Mastodon's Toxicity

They’re an insane troll imo

Worse. They're a well known Mastodon admin.

spaduf , 4 months ago to Fediverse in Content Nation Backlash Highlights Mastodon's Toxicity

I don't think it's fair to write off the entire medium like that. They all share a common ancestor in Twitter and I think it's fair to say the toxicity is inherited from there.

spaduf , 4 months ago to Technology in Happy 10 million! According to FediDB, we have hit 10 million users across the Fediverse!

I believe that's 900 active servers, not users.

spaduf , 4 months ago to Technology in Happy 10 million! According to FediDB, we have hit 10 million users across the Fediverse!

Nope. That's 418k total. 38k active

spaduf , 4 months ago to Technology in Happy 10 million! According to FediDB, we have hit 10 million users across the Fediverse!

They're on Mastodon and Misskey for the most part.

spaduf , 4 months ago to Fediverse in TechCrunch - Bluesky and Mastodon users are having a fight that could shape the next generation of social media

mastodon, bluesky, and lemmy are just going to be footnotes in history

Only if they squander their lead. So long as they innovate in ways befitting the fediverse form, they will probably maintain their position. That said, it seems to me like modular systems like bonfire will probably leapfrog the existing platforms pretty quickly.

spaduf , 4 months ago to Fediverse in Solutions and origins of the spam wave currently hitting the Fediverse

Absolutely wild that this is a group of minors.

spaduf , 4 months ago to Technology in Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox

In this context or generally?

spaduf , 4 months ago to Technology in Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox

I don't think this is a money making move. The previous CEO was absolutely overly focused on monetization and this move is a step away from that. I should've addressed this more explicitly in the above comment but even for the players who actively monetize, AI is a money incinerator.

spaduf , 4 months ago to Technology in Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox

Tell me this is a good thing.

Mozilla has long been the most ethical player in this space (while still producing SOTA ML). All of their datasets/models are open source and usually crowdsourced. Not to mention, their existing work is primarily in improving accessibility.

ALSO, the other half of this story is that Firefox is becoming the primary focus again. Everybody's freaking out about the AI stuff but that's because they're only reading the headlines. The programs they've shut down are things like Hubs (Mozilla's metaverse platform), the VPN, and the sensitive data scrubber (which was using a third party service anyway).

spaduf , 4 months ago to Technology in Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox

Though, it's tough to pull from the headline/discussion this pivot is explicitly meant to refocus on the browser.

As far as the AI stuff goes, Mozilla has long been the most ethical player in this space. All of their datasets/models are open source and usually crowdsourced. Not to mention, their existing work is primarily in improving accessibility. It's really hard to see how this is a bad thing.

spaduf , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to Technology in Mozilla lays off 60 people, wants to build AI into Firefox

So frustrated to see how this conversation is playing out. This is exactly what people have been asking for but all anybody can seem to see is "AI" in the headline.
This pivot is about refocusing on:

• The Browser
• Privacy
• Ethical AI

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This seems like a much better position for Mozilla to operate from, particularly because they've excelled at producing ethical SOTA ML for YEARS before ChatGPT. In all, this seems far more forward looking than the previous strategy of "make weird little web tools to make money maybe" and it's an absolutely massive untapped niche, that they already have the talent to tap into. If we punish the players best positioned to shift the industry standard away from extreme and exploitative data collection, we will end up in exactly the Orwellian AI hellscape that we're all so afraid of.

spaduf , 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to Fediverse in Bluesky opens to public registration

This is a particularly silly opinion because Lemmy is an algorithmic social media platform. It's just an algorithm that you happen to have access to documentation for. Almost certainly, any fediverse algorithm would have to work on the same principles as Lemmy (open and based on public interactions). Likes and upvotes are king. User similarity ranking is wildly inefficient on the fediverse due to its distributed nature and keyword systems are easily gamed (although some hybrid is possible).

spaduf , 4 months ago to Fediverse in Bluesky opens to public registration

This has always been the killer feature of the fediverse. Open non-exploitative content algorithms. So weird to see people against it for no reason.

spaduf , 4 months ago to Technology in Why Everyone Should Still Use an RSS Reader in 2024

Posted elsewhere: Really I mean anything more advanced than keyword filters and grouped feeds. Performance friendly NLP has come a long way since the advent of RSS