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@left_adjoint

OK I will play devil's advocate for a sec.

Mastodon doesn't have a large development base, only a handful of unpaid volunteers. Release cycles that also contain features requested by the community are incredibly slow and ultimately get selected by one person.

Only speaking about Bluesky because it isn't owned by one single billionaire, and is run by committees built from decent sized investors. Because of said investors there is a larger development base which leads to quicker release cycles that produce features requested by the community.

Speaking as someone who runs a single user instance on Mastodon and another on Bluesky. The latter is hella cheaper to operate because it requires less resources per user.

Mastodon is kinda clique based and requires you follow accounts or hashtags to make it work. Not a bad design, just slow to show results.

@davidcelis

Uh. Nope. No single entity owns Mastodon. Mastodon GmbH holds the name trademark only. It doesn't fund the project nor pay the handful of active developers. Eugen Rochko created Mastodon in 2016. Development is crowd-funded, with no support for advertisements or monetized features.

@left_adjoint

@davidcelis

Yep, that's what I'm saying. It's a non-profit, and non-profits are funded by donations and possibly government grants. Non profits still hire people to do regular jobs, no different than a profitable company.

@left_adjoint

@davidcelis

Well let's ask him directly.

Yo! @Gargron - care to disclose your base salary from Mastodon GmbH? Or maybe just confirm that it all depends on level of donations.

@left_adjoint

@anp @thamesynne @thegibson

Frank's Hot Sauce, "I put that shit on everything!"

@tek

I accidentally stumbled on this on:

CTRL + leftarrow/rightarrow will switch to other spaces.

@dansup

Is Loops ready for self hosting or is this something that remains proprietary?

@Joe_Hill @Npars01 @QasimRashid

We must adopt the same playbook they used. Slow, small changes, small wins, until we have enough power back to do as they did.

Just remember, we are the more intelligent party, so we should be able to get things back much quicker. They took decades to pull this off because that's what it takes for stupid to develop.

Truthfully, I expect the GOP to be too drunk on power to get anything done. Watch. Nothing meaningful to the country will get done. The economy, the food & gas prices, nothing will change.

@Npars01 and I'm saying they are too stupid to make any of it work. When they deport everyone that does the manual labor in this country, then what? You don't think MAGA is going to pick fruit or work at McDonald's do you?

Watch and see. They "want" to do a lot, but per usual do not have the critical thinking skills to see beyond their hate. They think they will just bus everyone they hate to the border and kick them out, turn and drive away, and be done with it.

I am betting on many mistakes happening and when they meet resistance even more mistakes will happen. We can take this country back.

@tek Hmm ya know what. I have a dual monitor setup not in use. I'm gonna connect them to my mac mini so I can experience what you are...rn I have a giant curved monitor connected so I don't have a split screen. If it is possible, I'm gonna finger it out.

@tek does this help?

Turn off the separate spaces thing.

@tek OK so if I may ask, what is your OS of choice and what issues are you having?

I promise no "switch to _____" advice.

@BeAware are you speculating or do you have real world experience in AI research? I’m just asking.

My roommate and I have done some work, as stupid as the subject matter is, with meme identification and alt text updating for the visually impaired here on Mastodon. We use open source models for the identification piece and a simple language model for the description writing. These models work in tandem with each other using custom scripting that reads from a OneDrive where each meme subject is its own folder that also maps to an account on our Mastodon instance.

Now this just scratches the surface of a necessary use for AI. We continue to do our research using every new technique discovered along the way. There is really a lot more that could be done with properly trained models that specialize in one subject, but people are scoffing the whole idea of AI before it has been given a chance.

@BeAware

The knowledge a model has depends on how a model is trained. If the proper care is taken at the training phases then the knowledge within a model is more accurate when used for those specific use cases.

As for how people are choosing to label or describe AI today. I can't do a thing about them and so I just filter them out.

There are good uses for AI and some people are quitting research because of constant ridicule - this needs to stop.

Sure are a lot of #AI haters on #Mastodon.

With the hate I am also seeing the same level of shortsightedness and a complete disregard for the benefits of AI already working in the medical and health fields.

Sure there are some out there with a point. Some are just walking around with their panties in a bunch. Maybe you are scared of losing your job to AI? Maybe you are just paranoid? Maybe you aren't as smart as you thought you were and AI exposed it?

Whatever it is, you are stomping on the lives of people that actually found good use for AI. So maybe just keep your negative thinking off social media. If ya don't like something then don't boost or like it. You can even filter words or phrases to avoid seeing anything about the topic in your timelines.

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@lina you are an idiot. Bye!

@lina you clearly have no clue about how federation works. I’m not the one being de-federated.

“…that one's just gonna keep going like it always did”

So what? Who cares? They will be all by themselves, and completely alone with only the content from users of their instance. Just like truth.social you would need an account on that instance to see their content.

@lina

Yep I blocked that instance as did thousands of others for giving home to racists. I don't give a shit about whether he's running scared or not, that isn't the point of mass blocking an instance. Without federation an instance is just an echo chamber filled with the content coming from themselves.

NO MORE LONG ASS SINGLE POSTS

I’m sorry but #Mastodon is a fucking MICRO BLOGGING platform. MICRO means small, as in limited characters. If you admin an instance and allow 20,000+ characters per post…JUST STOP IT.

When you hit 5,000 or more characters you have entered into BLOGGING territory. Run a multi-user BLOG for people that want more characters.

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