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J12t

@J12t@social.coop

Technologist, founder, organizer.

Let's put people back in control of their technology. The Fediverse is a good start. Also wondering aloud where we are taking this planet.

Check out my home page for more info and links.

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Imagine two identical with mainstream users. Same number of users, same connectedness of the social graph, same demographics etc.

Social network A only has an algorithmic feed. Social network B only has a chronological people-I-follow feed.

What would the usage numbers look like in comparison? Numbers of posts, numbers of likes/replies/boosts, growth trajectory, etc?

I would expect somebody has done some research on this. Anybody know of any public results?

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Over on , somebody pointed me to this very fascinating thread on this topic: https://bsky.app/profile/rahaeli.bsky.social/post/3kp7lfkssxl2q

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@danlyke Yes, indeed. The thing that struck me more, though, is that the thread alludes to a number of entirely different use cases / user needs addressed by the same social media application, and it would be so much more useful to think of them as distinct. I wrote down 5 of them on my whiteboard. Need to blog about this. Interestingly, in the fediverse we could actually have different applications for different needs!

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@julian Yes, we need to do a public service (with selfish benefit, too) to categorize and articulate those different usage scenarios. In the fediverse, we could actually build different apps for different needs/wants on the same network and social graph.

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@danlyke My thesis is that I'd prefer to run a different app in the evening lazing on the couch, for mild entertainment, compared to the daytime app where I, say, want to engage in this conversation that we are having right now. "Another interchangeable app" clearly would be too many.

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Nothing is as practical as a good theory.

I don't know who said it first, but they were right.

cmconseils, to random French
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The first 3 letters of 'Sweden' and 'Denmark' spell out 'Sweden.'

The remaining letters spell out 'Denmark.'

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@cmconseils I sense a conspiracy.

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What an amazing opportunity to do the opposite of the shiny new thing called “AI”.

Let’s go.

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2117752/google-gemini-ai.html

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Which percentage of people misspell Mastadon?

Ahem.

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Fascinating results in this global survey on democracy and related subjects.

One tidbit: everybody says that fighting climate change is important, but wants others to do that not their own government.

https://www.allianceofdemocracies.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/DPI-2024.pdf

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Two thirds of Google searches already do not send the user to another website. That was in 2020 and it might have gotten worse since. I did not know that.

https://sparktoro.com/blog/in-2020-two-thirds-of-google-searches-ended-without-a-click/

H/t @ben

Gargron, to BelieveInFilm
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Descent to the coast. San Francisco.

📷 Canon AE-1 Program
🎞️ Kodak Vision3 250D
🔭 Canon FD 50mm/1.4 S.S.C.

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@Gargron contrary to common beliefs, there is sometimes sunshine in San Francisco:-)

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New espresso machine. Now work should go twice as fast, right?

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Oh ChatGPT, how confidently you print out an algorithm that cannot possibly be correct!

I'm feeling like going to a doctor who skipped some classes in school and when encountering a patient with a condition they didn't learn about, they just make up some remedy. With extreme confidence in their demeanor.

Come to think of it, I have known some doctors to do that. So maybe ChatGPT is more human than we think.... ouch!

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"Meta AI Chief Says Large Language Models Will Not Reach Human Intelligence"

His peers must hate him!

https://slashdot.org/story/24/05/22/143243/meta-ai-chief-says-large-language-models-will-not-reach-human-intelligence

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@LaurentB45 It takes some courage to say that. The impact on the stock price may well be billions.

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Gordon Bell has died.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/gordon-bell-an-architect-of-our-digital-age-dies-at-age-89/

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Tax billionaires with 2% of their wealth annually? Now here is an idea…

https://www.ft.com/content/1f1160e0-3267-4f5f-94eb-6778c65e65a4

J12t, to fediverse
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Exciting things are progressing around the . I can't wait!!!

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The ex-Bavarians among us got Weisswurst for -- shall we call it brunch? -- today. In California. And it's actually not bad.

The Americans in the family also love it. So there is still hope for them.

https://dittmers.com/

Sadly, no fresh Brez'n from Esther's. We made do with German Farmer's bread, which surprisingly, the local grocery store sells from a bakery in Santa Cruz. And Weisswurstsenf, which Dittmer's sells.

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I love a good interview, and the questions being fired off here are excellent. Seeing how much Sundar squirms at each question means to me that Nilay is doing the right thing here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqikP9X9-ws

J12t,
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@anchorite started watching it. Managed for 5 min, but it’s too painful to continue. Google is Wiley E Coyote…

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Wow! “… purchasing power … would already be 37% higher than it is now without global heating seen over the past 50 years”
The best is still to come /s
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/17/economic-damage-climate-change-report

J12t, to fediverse
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In light of recent discussions how to make it easier to interact with content on servers other than your home instance:

What MSN does here is interesting. You can “follow” before you sign in (not sure what that means? They implicitly create an “account” just from a session cookie?)

Also, assuming MSN has the money and expertise to really research this, the actual sign-in experience can take a lot of screens and they seem to be okay with that.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/meta-just-showed-off-threads-fediverse-integration-for-the-very-first-time/ar-BB1kbxDQ

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I'm having a real hard time seeing how, if he managed to get his hands on TikTok, he would transform it into the "good internet". Without losing all the users.

Anybody else see what he apparently sees?

https://gizmodo.com/tiktok-ban-frank-mccourt-bytedance-liberty-china-app-1851478825

J12t,
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@reillypascal I'm aware of the protocol. Even beyond the specific protocol, I have never understood why anybody thinks an (all-public, never-can-delete) data store is the right place for social media data. I don't get the all-public about either. (and I'm not understanding what they may or may not support in terms of delete)

But re McCourt, he's not a geek, so he can only act on what geeks tell him, and they told him blockchain :-)

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