If a substantial number of old users and power users leave reddit, it might trigger a noticeable slowdown in traffic and a decline in quality (I'm not so sure about this as the quality had been going down the shitter for a long time anyway). Maybe that will alert people as to what's happening.
I deleted all the content and comments I posted from my 12 year old account after the AMA spez did yesterday. I will delete the account at the end of this month if nothing changes (I doubt anything will).
I've noticed in the explosion that we are getting duplicate communities in multiple instances. This is ultimately gonna hinder community growth as eventually communities like 'cats' will exist in hundreds of places all with their own micro groups, and some users will end up subscribing to duplicates in their list....
I had the same idea. Tags are already there to gather posts related to a topic in a single page. The difference in experience would be the curation reddit's subreddit system allows. Curation and moderation. Otherwise, an agreed upon tagging scheme should do the trick if the only concern is subscribing to topics.
Absolutely right. What makes or breaks any social media platform is the ease of forming large communities (which goes hand in hand with the number of total active users) first and the user experience second.
"Fediverse" seems to suffer greatly from a UX point of view, mostly due to decentralization, which creates this isolation effect for newcomers.
Take mastodon vs twitter for example. For someone used to signing up for twitter and instantly gaining access to virtually everything the platform has to offer, mastodon has a big threshold to jump over before you can have a twitter-like experience. At least it feels like it until you get used to the experience. That's still the biggest barrier in front of large scale adoption of decentralized social media platforms.
Yesterday I tried to use the Power Delete Suite to edit all my comments and self posts to F U u/spez on my 12 year old account. It failed and also resulted in me getting banned from a couple subreddits due to spam. Then I gave up and just deleted my entire comment and post history using the same script.
A lot of people might be doing something similar, which would spike the requests on their servers quite a bit.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the author of “The Black Swan”, has exposed the limitations of ChatGPT. ChatGPT fails to understand the ironies and nuances of history and produces nonsensical and contradictory responses. Taleb also criticizes ChatGPT as a mere parrot of human texts, and not a source of original insights.
@haritulsidas What's astounding to me is people expecting anything else from a chatbot trained on human text with a probabilistic approach to guess contextually appropriate strings of text following a text prompt, while the bot has no internal, conceptual logic which can relate concepts, causes and effects, entities and actions to each other, and no access to a database of fact checked information to compare its outputs to.
I may be getting ahead of myself regarding my expectation of people to understand how this technology works but shouldn't everyone have some sort of built in skepticism for a technology going from barely understanding and creating coherent sentences to seemingly philosophizing virtually overnight? Even if nobody exactly understood how it does what it does, I'd expect more of an inclination to believe it's more smoke and mirrors or tech trickery than the apparent belief in GPT's recreation of human-like intelligence.
/r/videos announces that it will be entering it's blackout early - and indefinitely - given recent events
Think this case in particular is pretty interesting. Former default subreddit and one of the largest on the site (Top 20 at least)....
In response to the disastrous Spez AMA, /r/Videos have announced that they will permanently shut down on 11th June, one day ahead of the planned blackout (old.reddit.com)
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Is there a way to create Super Communities?
I've noticed in the explosion that we are getting duplicate communities in multiple instances. This is ultimately gonna hinder community growth as eventually communities like 'cats' will exist in hundreds of places all with their own micro groups, and some users will end up subscribing to duplicates in their list....
so, which Big Tech company do you think is going to shit the bed next and popularize its Fediverse/FOSS equivalent in the process?
I'm personally crossing my fingers for Discord.
I don't feel bad at all (aussie.zone)