I keep seeing articles about Mastodon slumps, and journalists going back to Twitter. Is it fair to say, that maybe Mastodon isn't for journalists, or brands, or even people who want large accounts? Maybe Mastodon is true social media, for people who want to interact and discuss, not be influenced, sold to, or manipulated with cult style tactics and followings. There will always be groups who dislike the idea of the people controlling their own inputs, people who don't like the idea of accessible Administration, and people who don't like the idea that if we don't like a space that we can just move to another one, or even create our own. Individualism is scary to the kind of people who thrive on complacency, and not challenging the status quo.
The evidence is clear: Russia has built networks and infrastructure to mislead, to lie and destabilise in an industrial manner. It also cooperates with China to erode trust in the institutions. Read more in the first EEAS report on FIMI threats.
@MattHatton oh, hello, voltage. Long time, no see 😂😂😂
Hradní hňup. Stále stejný. Nebo možná stále horší.
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Hmmm... I wonder what would happen if a large language model like #ChatGPT started being trained more and more on its own output. 🤔
Because that's exactly what might start happening soon. It *will* be used to generate a shit-ton of bullshit online content (as @mhoye already noted), and it is trained on data coming from the Internet.
"If you liked Garbage In Garbage Out, you're going to love Garbage In Garbage Out And Then Back In Again."
A GPT-Ouroboros, eating it's own crap. 💩
A do piče.
Na celej Ukrajine vyhlásili letecký poplach. Z letísk v Bielorusku odštartovali ruské lietadlá, vrátane strojov A-50U a stíhačiek MiG-31, ktoré môžu niesť hypersonické strely Kinžal. Aktuálne sa v Kyjive nachádzajú lídri EÚ Ursula von der Leyenová a Charles Michel. (čtk)
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2 February 1944 | The SS men conducted a selection at the women camp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. They chose 800 women prisoners who on the same day were murdered in a gas chamber.
#Auschwitz #Birkenau #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts #selection #women
@ianbetteridge right, but if they're well connected, they should have no problem moving somewhere else where the environment is less hostile. For example, here. I understand the switching 'costs' may be high but it's worth it.
@ianbetteridge the only way to fight #twitter is to leave.
I always understood the sentiment of “staying and fighting” but there is no point fighting if you can never achieve what you wanted. The communities that were there have either already moved on or will be made to move on, because they don’t fit into a crass billionaire’s idea of what #Twitter should be. Twitter is dead, people. Everything else is just noise.
#translationfreelancer from #Slovakia.
#craftbeer lover.
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