Notices by Jesse (misc@mastodon.social), page 3

@WarnerCrocker DougJBalloon is being punished for staying on X.

@snarfed.org @tchambers Holy moly "moderate people, not code" is so good. So many ideas I've wanted to express but you had the skill and knowledge to express them so much better than I'd have been able to!

@mekkaokereke @georgeeyong God I hope you’re right. And that “the end” you’re talking about comes some time before my own.

I kind of understood this, but it's getting clearer to me. The kind of people who build good thoughtful products are going to be disproportionately put off by AI and the surrounding culture, leaving the field largely to scammers and magical thinkers. And the ensuing flood of shit isn't neutral. Actual good stuff gets lost. I really think this kind of hype is bad for real innovation.

People like to say that "AI" is different from crypto in that there are actual useful applications, and that's true. But the vast majority of people you're expecting to come up with those applications are the same people who were just trying to build products on the blockchain.

Someone in a group chat shared some ChatGPT output, and it's fascinating to me that it has all the superficial hallmarks of clear writing, but the way my brain bounces off it, it might as well be the most convoluted, tedious academic writing you can imagine.

@Damon @blogdiva @polotek I don’t *think* Mastodon will immediately transform into the worst aspects of Bluesky overnight, with main characters of the day over silly shit and whatnot. And I do hope that it helps with Mastodon’s whiteness problem. I guess we’ll see (hopefully) soon enough.

@Damon @blogdiva @polotek I just go ahead and quote. My hope is that most people who follow me use apps that support it. My understanding is that official support is on the Mastodon roadmap. I’m pro-quote, and mostly don’t use it for dunking. That said! Bluesky strikes me as a case study supporting the claims of anti-quote people. I love a lot about that place, but it is undeniably dunk-happy, in a way that overall detracts from it, imho.

@otto42 @tchambers @arossp @funkwhale @Castopod I strongly disagree - I think discussion of podcasts is a huge and untapped need. Constantly want to talk about an episode after I hear it. This was slightly viable in the Twitter era, when it was just accepted that everyone was on there, and new episodes usually had an associated tweet. Extremely hard now.

@inthehands Hmm I got my last shot in Sept also. And got covid a month ago. Hadn't even considered getting Novavax sooner than next fall. 🤔

Wish Plex wasn’t utter shit at TV show metadata. (And the internet wasn’t full of insufferable assholes responding to every request for help with “looks like someone didn’t follow the instructions!”)

How much does mastodon.social dominate the fediverse?

We may disagree on methods, but ultimately our goal should be the same: destroy Twitter and Facebook, and seize the means of communication.

My dream is a world of bottom-up social networks, governed and shaped by the people who use them. The fediverse now isn't that, but it hints at the possibility. I think we should defend what we have, but I'll be disappointed if we never grow beyond it.

Collecting anecdotes, data, and anecdata on people and orgs who’ve left Twitter and found higher engagement from ostensibly fewer followers. This is in preparation for a renewed pitch to the org I’m in, to begin the process of x-trication. Boosts appreciated!

@ryanhoulihan Maybe we should dress up as killer AI, since that seems to be the only thing that scares them.

Welp, I fuckin got covid again.

A really clever thing about the human body is how, the night before something really important, it makes sure you don't sleep.

People should be scraping Twitter to make unauthorized cross posters/clients. It probably won't be any more broken that the official apps.

If nothing else it will enrage Elon and give his remaining engineers some extra work. Maybe some more will quit.