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   『g r e y』 :uv: ☦️ (grey@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 03:17:37 JST 『g r e y』 :uv: ☦️
   reddit is about to become 100% AI generated content unless you pay for it. imagine actually paying for access to listen to real redditors.
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     Xuya (xuya@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 03:17:35 JST Xuya

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     • Owl
     Lol don't ma'am me, missy
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     AlabasterBrick ?‍☠️ (alabasterbrick@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 03:17:35 JST AlabasterBrick ?‍☠️

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     • Xuya
     When I have an upset stomach I read some leddit to make the puke come up faster.
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     Owl (owl@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 03:17:36 JST Owl

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     • Xuya
     Ma'am I'm not fucking paying for a subscription to Redditors.
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     Xuya (xuya@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 03:17:37 JST Xuya

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     Sometimes they can be so bad that they entertaining. 😂
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     Owl (owl@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 03:25:02 JST Owl

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     • M. Night Charlemayne
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     They didn't have a father figure around to teach them how to tie a rope or else they wouldn't be gay homosexual faggots in the first place.
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     M. Night Charlemayne (deerblood@poa.st)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 03:25:03 JST M. Night Charlemayne

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     • Xuya
     @xuya @Owl @grey Is there a tranny law that says they're all required to wear gay chokers?
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     Tiberius J. Nougat (lord_nougat@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 03:25:03 JST Tiberius J. Nougat

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     • Xuya

     YES! One just like this:

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     Xuya (xuya@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 03:25:04 JST Xuya

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     • Owl
     I like the first response:
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     Xuya (xuya@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 03:25:05 JST Xuya

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     • Owl
     First thread lol
     https://www.reddit.com/r/WitchesVsPatriarchy/comments/1ioulwh/estrogen_saved_my_life/
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     Owl (owl@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 03:25:05 JST Owl

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     • Xuya
     I saw that too, lol'd hard. Especially when you know their penchant for suicide.
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     Owl (owl@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 03:25:06 JST Owl

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     • Xuya
     r/WitchesVsPatriarchy is my go-to. Damn, I might actually have to pay for Reddit.
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     Xuya (xuya@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 03:25:07 JST Xuya

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     One of my guilty pleasure is to read those relationship threads. Most are so stupid it ridiculous how can you not laugh?
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 14:06:28 JST pistolero

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     @grey With the CIA no longer funding Reddit, they don't have a sustainable business model. This is excellent news.
     
     > imagine actually paying for access to listen to real redditors.
     
     Regular people won't. Even advertisers won't, and they shit buckets of money at anything that has a non-negative ROI: https://www.techspot.com/news/78713-reddit-users-almost-worthless-compared-other-social-networks.html .
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     ?uper?nekFriend ? (supersnekfriend@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 14:08:42 JST ?uper?nekFriend ?

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     >People might, big "might", finally leave Reddit wholesale and start making forums again
     Who am I kidding? Normalfags and the sophomoric techbros will keep using shitty programs and sites like Dicksore. The internet is dead.
     
     By the way, this is why Reddit devs have been doing their damnedest to preventing FOSS third-party frontends from working.
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     waltercool (waltercool@pl.slash.cl)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 14:20:54 JST waltercool

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     @p @grey They have Lemmy, something even worse than reddit community itself.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 14:21:36 JST pistolero

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     @waltercool @grey If Lemmy ever gets its shit together enough to start federating properly, it might end up useful.
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     waltercool (waltercool@pl.slash.cl)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 14:33:11 JST waltercool

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     @p @grey It will get same as Fediverse itself.
     
     In theory, every instance can speak with each other.
     
     In practice, it will get divided between free speech instances and "muh nazis" everywhere.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 14:33:51 JST pistolero

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     @waltercool @grey
     
     > It will get same as Fediverse itself.
     
     Fedi is useful.
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     sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 14:40:56 JST sj_zero

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     Already happened.
     
     One of my mutuals ran a based instance called wolfballs. The instance was one of 2 on Lemmy worth talking to, and to this day despite having been down for years most Lemmy instances block both by default.
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 14:40:56 JST pistolero

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     @sj_zero @waltercool @grey
     
     > oh the mastodongs are walling themselves off
     
     ...Good?
     
     It's not like the people that prefer hugboxes are fun to talk to or have anything interesting to say.
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     sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 14:49:59 JST sj_zero

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     • pistolero
     You're not wrong.
     
     Sometimes I head over and it's like "oh yeah, these aren't actually people, they're just preprogrammed dialog trees"
     
     It's like talking to a less advanced version of eliza
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 15:00:27 JST pistolero

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     @sj_zero @waltercool @grey
     
     > It's like talking to a less advanced version of eliza
     
     Well, I'm gonna quote the same thing I quoted in the
     https://blog.freespeechextremist.com/blog/on-human-bots.html post:
     
     > [Richard] Wallace's theory of A.I. is no theory at all. It's not that he doesn't believe in artificial intelligence, per se; rather, he doesn't much believe in intelligence, period. In a way that oddly befits a contest sponsored by a bunch of Skinnerians, Wallace's ALICE program is based strictly on a stimulus-response model. You type something in, if the program recognizes what you typed, it picks a clever, appropriate, "canned" answer.
     > There is no representation of knowledge, no common-sense reasoning, no inference engine to mimic human thought. Just a very long list of canned answers, from which it picks the best option. Basically, it's Eliza on steroids.
     > Conversations with ALICE are "stateless"; that is, the program doesn't remember what you say from one conversational exchange to the next. Basically it's not listening to a word you say, it's not learning a thing about you, and it has no idea what any of its own utterances mean. It's merely a machine designed to formulate answers that will keep you talking. And this strategy works, Wallace says, because that's what people are: mindless robots who don't listen to each other but merely regurgitate canned answers.
     
     I think talking to them isn't just missing out on some boredom; I think it actually hurts your ability to think. You ever have a discussion with someone and it was clear they were not listening and were picking their responses out of a list of canned rebuttals? I mean, learned helplessness results from a feature of the brain: information that is not relevant is discarded, and information that is not actionable is not relevant. So you talk to those people long enough and all the thoughts that might occur to you during a normal conversation get quieter, the information that is relevant during a stupid internet argument gets louder: I think "stupid internet argument" is a symptom of a (contagious) cognitive disease.
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     『g r e y』 :uv: ☦️ (grey@poa.st)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 17:11:33 JST 『g r e y』 :uv: ☦️

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     • pistolero
     @p >read the news article
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     pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Sunday, 16-Feb-2025 17:13:47 JST pistolero

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     @grey That is hilarious *but* consider that they're comparing it to Facebook; it might be technically correct to say that the average intelligence of any place that people post is higher than on Facebook.