That’s ominous.

If this amazing product is going to change the world, how is it not making enough money?

Give me a decent chunk of the company so I make proportional profits. Otherwise, no thanks.

Do you think the fediverse has a civility problem?

Short answer: yes.

Long answer: social media (and humans) have a civility problem. And I wonder how much of it is astroturfed. When Trump was first running for the 2016 election, social media was flooded with racism. You disagreed with one twitter egg, and five more were like “debate me bro” and they had all these stats about race-science, and rhetoric to misconstrue the nature of equality and the value of liberalism. I don’t think it was grassroots. I think it was Steve Bannon’s troll army or some other coordinated institution. Here on Lemmy I keep seeing violent leftist rhetoric, and I also wonder if it’s feds, or reddit’s goons undermining the competition. They’ll post “murder all pigs” or “shoot fascists” and get like a thousand upvotes, and their arguments are belligerent and idiotic, and they pile on you for disagreeing. Feels coordinated. Feels like 2016 honestly.

is there anything we can do about it?

Downvote, report, block. Don’t engage (trying to remember that myself). But I bet they’re still driving people away.

Nobody’s complaining about the simple.wikipedia part, but you already know that.

They’re not missing that part. Nobody’s “raging” against simple.wikipedia

On something like wikipedia I only want words that are written by humans, vouched for by individuals who are accountable for what they write.

If I want AI generated content I’ll go to an AI site.

Humans are good at writing. We literally invented it and we’re experts. I’ll stop using wikipedia if they turn into a slop heap.

No matter the context.

But sometimes because of the context, as in this case, where we want info vouched for by actual humans who did research and who can be held accountable, instead of more slop.

Yeah, at that point why bother with wikipedia anyway? If we’re just using AI then we’re just using AI (but I don’t want to just use AI ffs)

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I’d rather be waterboarded

If you just get LLMs to write your code then you can write your code zero times

so they’re… still hiring???

[ in walks fully-released-bug-driven developer ]

That’s not as clever as you think it is.

You can also not use Google. I use duckduckgo and they let you turn off AI overview.

violence as a means to an end, pragmatically, has enormous costs,

The people I’m talking about (the worst ones) don’t even have an “end.” No plan at all. The violence is the end. It’s pure stupidity. I see it as the lust for violence, coming up with some politics to justify itself.

I honestly think self-righteousness pushes people away. It’s why I can barely stand bluesky. During the big exodus from reddit, all these so-called far-lefties (who I think were just reddit goons doing infiltration) were all screaming for everybody to defederate. Even now, I keep arguing against idiots posting “kill a cop” or “kill fascists” memes, like this is literally an “advocate violence” platform. I don’t expect to pull big numbers with that kind of shit.

Social media is kinda washed up. A lot of people are on substack, too. The internet as a place is just less popular, I think. We’re all getting sick of it.

In theory the fediverse is not a monolith. We actually want for this to not work.